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choppy video asus eee 1000

Asked by Steven Mitnick

I own Asus EEE 1000 and have Ubuntu 9.04 installed. When playing video with Flash, it runs choppy. I tried turning off Compiz and even removed Compiz. The video still runs choppy. I thought that was the way the Atom processor ran until I saw an Acer One run similar videos very smoothly. Any ideas of the problem and solution? Thanks.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Hi, first maybe run through all the steps in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
but perhaps stick with the non-free components until your are more used to OpenSource.

Then use Synaptic Package Manager to look for "flash player"
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto
make sure you don't have more than 1 of these as they can clash with each other quite a bit sometimes. Gnash & swf-player work fine together but not with non-free-adobe. I would get the non-free-adobe one and uninstall the others.

Finally if that still hasn't helped then on a command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
type in

gstreamer-properties

and change the Video Output from "Auto" to "...(no Xv)"

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Hi :)

Did my answer help at all? Please let us know how it has gone
Regards from
Tom :)

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Steven Mitnick (stevenmitnick) said : 		#3

Hello Tom,

I've been trying a variety of things. I updated the bios and tried what you suggested above. I tried each of the above 'flashes'. Gnash and swf-player when installed did not even play the website I was experimenting with www.thegreatflu.com so I reinstalled Flash 10 where at least it was working. The same choppyness occurs with anything on youtube.com Changing Video Output from Auto to ...(no Xv) made no difference. I even tried it on Opera. Any other thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Steven

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Wow, that page gave me all sorts of warning and stuff abou unsafe security certificate and stuff! Have you tried just normal YouTube videos? if they work then i would say it's the flu website, perhaps it has been compromised or something?

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