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Anonymous
September 16, 2010
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HELP! Youtube videos very choppy, low FPS in HQ mode

  • 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ATI radeon 5850  graphics card, 8 GB of ram, and an i7 processor so it can't be due to  the fact that the technology is out of date.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
September 18, 2010

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
September 18, 2010

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
September 18, 2010

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
September 16, 2010

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
    September 16, 2010

    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
    September 16, 2010

    Hi, well, not at the moment. You need to rid your system of that DLM etc. You can do that after we take care of the DLM. The DLM is not needed unless you are downloading a very large file. Flash Player is what, 3MB, tops? Some Windows updates are much larger than that:-) The DLM is to download large files by compressing them. I doubt that a under 3MB file needs compressed, it wouldn't even have time! However Adobe uses the DLM, it is supposed to disconnect but many times it does not and installs add ons which are not needed but conflict.

    Do that first and then we'll see about the programs. It won't be the programs per se, it will be add ons they Install, that can conflict.

    You always must keep in mind, that Flash Player works thru the browser and even tho, we're discussing videos and FPS's and HD, etc. it is Flash Player and the browser behind it all. Mess with the browser or that Flash Player ActiveX Control that's in the browser with add ons, then there is a problem:-)

       

    Thanks,

    eidnolb


    I just uninstalled the Adobe Download Manager, so should I restart my computer now? Cause it didn't ask me to reboot or anything.

    Also, I doubt it's my browser that has the problem because this is happening for every browser I use in terms of that video getting low FPS. I've used Firefox, IE, Chrome and Opera and it's all the same. I'm guessing it has something to do with the player itself.

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