slow video stop and go

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I have an older machine with AMD 1.8 Ghz chip and 512 memory.

The Vimeo and Youtube playbacks are terribly slow and jerky, stop and go kind of stuff.

I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del and the CPU part shows iexplore.exe as using 88 to 97 per cent continuously.

The video card has 32 mb in it.

I put "SpeedBit" video accelerator software in it and it didn't seem to help much....

Is there anything I can do for this kinda old machine to get smooth video, or am better to get a new machine?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[Bennett Marco]

Hi there,

I have an older machine with AMD 1.8 Ghz chip and 512 memory.

The Vimeo and Youtube playbacks are terribly slow and jerky, stop and go kind of stuff.

I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del and the CPU part shows iexplore.exe as using 88 to 97 per cent continuously.

The video card has 32 mb in it.

I put "SpeedBit" video accelerator software in it and it didn't seem to help much....

Is there anything I can do for this kinda old machine to get smooth video, or am better to get a new machine?

Thanks,

Gordon

What is the speed of your Internet connection?

 

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Downloading at 8940 kbps....

Gordon

Hi there,

I have an older machine with AMD 1.8 Ghz chip and 512 memory.

The Vimeo and Youtube playbacks are terribly slow and jerky, stop and go kind of stuff.

I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del and the CPU part shows iexplore.exe as using 88 to 97 per cent continuously.

The video card has 32 mb in it.

I put "SpeedBit" video accelerator software in it and it didn't seem to help much....

Is there anything I can do for this kinda old machine to get smooth video, or am better to get a new machine?

Thanks,

Gordon

What is the speed of your Internet connection?

 

[John Inzer]

Downloading at 8940 kbps....

Gordon

========================================
That's a little slow and may be the problem especially
when you combine it with high traffic on the servers.

FWIW...my cable connection speed tonight is 15924 kbps
and even at that speed I see some slowdowns.

Best bet may be to download the video clips to your hard
drive and view them from there.

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Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Brian A.]

See:
http://www.vimeo.com/help/faq#download_limit

and
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=56100

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[Paul]

Hi John,

Is there a way to download those Youtubes and Vimeos?

thanks,

Gordon

Gordon, are you attempting to view the videos "full screen",
or in a smaller window ? There is a test video here you can
try. It uses about 10% peak CPU on my machine, in a regular sized window.
Clicking the full screen tab, brings the CPU usage up to 40%.
To run it, unzip the file (51,620,279 bytes), then open
fullScreenSourceRectDemo.html in your browser.

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/demos/full_screen_demo.zip

What is funny, is there is a Hardware Acceleration setting, as shown
here. When that is enabled, in full screen, both cores of
my processor hit 40%. If hardware acceleration is disabled via
the tickbox, then one core runs at 40% and the other has somewhat
less usage. My version of flash is 10.0.32.18. The processor
used is a Core2 Duo 2.6GHz (E4700). DirectX 9c. 128MB AGP video card.
Playback is silky smooth, in either windowed or full screen mode.
My screen is 1280 wide, so that is how wide it goes at full screen.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

What do you see when running that video ?

Paul

 

[BillW50]

In Paul typed on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:23:40 -0400:
Nobody mentioned yet that browsers use Flash Player to play the videos.
And Flash uses huge amounts of CPU power to play videos. The flash
player is programmed by very sloppy programming. If you download a
youtube video say with a youtube downloader utility. Then play it
through a FLV player or with a codec with Windows Media Player or
something... you will see the CPU use is far less than it was with a
browser using that slow Flash Player by Macromedia.