Tom Bamford wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: >> Whenever I try to watch any streaming video such >> as BBC iPlayer or YouTube things aren't right. >> After a few minutes the video will start to pause >> and jump in short bursts, the sound is fine. I'm >> guessing that my machine cannot cope (or at least >> the video card can't), when this happens the processor >> fan will have wound up to flat-out. >> >> The laptop in question is a Sony Vaio with a 2.4GHz >> Pentium 4 and 1Gb of RAM, more than enough for video. >> I know the internet connection isn't to blame as my >> wifes 1.7GHz Toshiba (connected via the same wireless >> access point) manages the video no problem. >> >> I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome 2.2 and using Firefox >> 2.0.0.11 to watch the video. Running 'top' shows FF >> is using around 7% CPU when the video is paused and >> more like 85% when the video is playing. >> >> Anybody have any ideas where to start looking? >> >> Andy Jenkins. >> >> > > I would start with the flash plugin as that's what YouTube and the BBC > iPlayer uses. What version of flash do you have installed? > > Regards, > Tom >
OK, well the Adobe site reports that I have "LNX 9,0,48,0" and as the BBC iPlayer specifies Flash 9 I'm guessing that shouldn't be a problem. Andy. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
