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ATI radeon 5850 graphics card, 8 GB of ram, and an i7 processor so it can't be due to the fact that the technology is out of date.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

I've only had this computer since August 25th I believe, but I have updated windows since then. I updated on the 1st and I also updated yesterday. Yesterday's update didn't solve anything though, as the video was laggy before and after the update. Maybe it was from the update before?? The thing is though, about a week in a half ago my friend installed a new heatsink on my PC. Not sure if that affected anything, it made the CPU a lot cooler and made my system run faster. I have no idea what's going on.

Hi, thanks. If your computer did not come Installed with Flash Player, then you Installed FP before yesterday's Patch Tuesday. Do you remember using the download manager when Installing? If so, do you have a get_atlcom Class or getplus or a DLM Control in your add ons?

Go to Tools, Manage add ons. This should open in Toolbars & Extensions. Look down to your left for "Show"(very light text). Use the drop down arrow and look in All Addons and or Run without Permissions.

Hmmm on the new heat sink. Was there some reason for that, since your system is new? Microsoft have a site for every conceivable hardware and software for Win7 and the 64bit system. The only way I know is a few months ago I was shopping for that OS and wondered about what was available. That MS site lists what is compatible or not.

Thanks,

eidnolb

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