HELP! Youtube videos very choppy, low FPS in HQ mode

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September 16, 2010
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I have a problem that I need help with, seems like any video I try to play on Youtube now in high quality is somewhat choppy. Usually I get a 10 FPS drop in high quality mode compared to 240p (240p I have no drops in FPS I believe), yet this does not happen on the other computers I have.

The current computer I use has windows 7 64 bit, ATI radeon 5850 graphics card, 8 GB of ram, and an i7 processor so it can't be due to the fact that the technology is out of date. The other computers are Windows XP service pack 2 and my friend's computer also said that the videos I showed him that were choppy for me were fine for him. I believe he runs a Mac.

My flash is updated to the most current setting too and this happens on every browser I've tried on here, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I've also downloaded one of my videos in mp4 format and it's still choppy like on the site here. Is this a graphics card issue or a flash based issue?

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larka-x@yahoo.com

Inspiring

I also have this problem. A day after I've downloaded the latest flash player, the videos I watch (youtube, flash, etc) have all been choppy. Sometimes it lasts for a few moments, then later throughout the whole video. The worst part was when the videos stopped working completely and a gray circle with an exclamation mark appears on all my video screens, giving off an annoying buzzing sound that won't shut up unless I turned off the sound. I had to close my safari program to make it stop, but I had to right click on it to quit multiple times because it won't respond. This has to stop, or else I'll go mad. What should I do?

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Anonymous

This is to larka..You are going to have a lot more problems than audio/video if that is your real email address you've used as your screen name.

eidnolb

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larka-x@yahoo.com

Inspiring

Oh don't worry, that's not my real email address. I just put that in by chance since it wouldn't accept my other user names. I'll see if I can change that.

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Anonymous

Hi, you may want to turn off the hardware acceleration feature and see if that helps. You can read the info on that here:

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

eidnolb

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Anonymous

Nope that didn't help it unfortunately. I can still watch some videos without problems but videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2l0r4Br6OA I cannot watch in 360p without getting only like 20 FPS. It seems like every video I watch though studders at random times, even though if I watch the part of the video again it doesn't do that.

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Anonymous

The weird thing is that the video worked fine for me a couple of weeks ago, but now it's choppy again. I have no clue why it's acting like this.

Hi, Yes that doesn't make too much sense. Was this after Installing the latest Flash Player 10.1.82.76? Do you recall Installing any other program around that time, or Uninstalling any. What about any updates or upgrades? Windows we know is always on their monthly Patch Tuesdays, 9/14 and 8/10. Now I recall 8/10 was Patch Tuesday and also the very day that Flash Player updated to their latest version. Perhaps a glitch occurred?

Let me know on that.

eidnolb

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