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

Report · Sep 15, 2010

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ATI radeon 5850 graphics card, 8 GB of ram, and an i7 processor so it can't be due to the fact that the technology is out of date.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

Report · Sep 20, 2010

Oh, ok, how could you forget that? LOL You may want to compare add ons with the XP and the Win7's.

Here are a couple of the links. I'm sure you'll find them informative and interesting.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=2393b82b16c19ff0&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=209d109966bbdb63&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=174122&cbid=-lpkoj4smx1om&src=cb&lev=%20i...

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74662

This one is good, edit your Settings on your youtube account: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=91449

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/search.py?query=low+fps+in+hq+mode+more%3Aforum&start=10&f...

I read a lot last night:-) Glad those links were still in my History!

eidnolb

Report · Sep 20, 2010

I forgot one that you may want to check: (From youtube, forgot the link)

I've discovered this rather handy page on the Adobe web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/hdvideo/hdgallery/, which has some samples of 480p, 720p and 1080p videos, for example http://www.adobe.com/products/hdvideo/hdgallery/assets/hdplayer.html?w=1280&h=760&vid=http%3A//hdgal....

eidnolb