On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > > > > > More along the lines of, when YouTube loads, the animation is very > > > jaggy; when videos play, the video play back (even will fully > > > downloaded) is jaggy and out of sink. > > > > > > I'm wondering if it is my graphics card, because I have enough memory > > > (2.5GB) and the CPU should be more than powerful enoug (3.2Ghz P4). > > > > > > > Have you checked your Xorg.0.log to make sure an accelerated video > > driver is loading? > > > > Sounds like what Solaris was like for me when I was using the standard > > "nv" driver instead of the nVidia one. > > > > YouTube videos should not require much video performance at all since they > are quite low bandwidth. The computer described sounds enourmously capable > as compared with requirements. It seems most likely that there is an > interfacing problem between Flash and the browser.
With the default nv driver, there's an X server configuration option such as Shadow buffer or the like that made flash, etc. incredibly slow. Until I changed that option with the default "nv" driver, performance was horrid. As such, regardless of what it should be, it can be. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
