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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
