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UNiT760
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May 31, 2016
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Streaming flash movies picture jumpy/jittery, pausing but sound continues fine

  • May 31, 2016
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I have been having problems with streaming flash movies from a site in Croatia.

The website is OYO.HR and when i stream their episodes and series they stream fine but every minute or so the video playback would jump and pause but the sound would continue just fine.

This happens on Opera, Mozilla, Edge and Chrome on Windows 10 and Safari and Mozilla on OS X.

Am using the latest Flash Plugin on all machines i think from memory its 21.

The problems are on both quite new machines. The Win 10 machine is a gaming laptop with i76820 and GTX980m and the OS X machine is a 3.2ghz i5 with gtx 675mx. Both machines are super quick with all the relevant service packs and updates.

Have disabled hardware acceleration on both operating systems.

Youtube and other various flash streaming sites working fine.

I am in contact with support from OYO.HR however I thought i'd also consult here.

Starting to believe that it is OYO.HR's problem and/or the link between Croatia and Australia is causing the problem.

My internet down link is at worst 8mbps, 12mbps on average and at home on my cable connection can download 1.4megabytes a second on torrents which indicates that my downlink is approximately 11.2mbps.

A test from a Croatian speed test site gives me about 4mbps downlink which technically I should be able to achieve similar speeds from OYO.HR and should be suffice for low quality streaming.

Example of the video playback issues can be viewed here - Movie playback problems Flash and OYO.HR - YouTube

Am open to further ideas.

Many thanks in advance.

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jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
June 7, 2016

Yeah, we're definitely dropping tons of frames.  I'd turn hardware acceleration back on, since turning it off didn't help.


A couple things that you might try:

Set the CPU affinity on the Flash Player process to use only one core. 

(If this works, see if there's a firmware update for your motherboard/cpu)

Change the Processor Affinity setting in Windows 7 to gain a performance edge - TechRepublic

If that doesn't work, look around in your graphics driver settings and turn off any power saving features.