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VGA compatible controller [0300]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter [1039:6330]
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

I suspect these pieces of information point to the problem.  The Linux SiS driver has not received much maintenance for some time, let alone development.  In fact the 3D portion was recently dropped entirely by upstream Mesa - see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg0Mg  
The first release to go without these drivers will be Mesa 7.12 when released in January.  Furthermore, according to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SiS "There is no DRI driver for "[SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP" chipset..."

"Software Rasterizer" indicates that your system is not using the SiS
graphics chip for hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering (not surprising
given that there is no driver), but instead has fallen back to the
slower software-based (CPU) rendering.

In conclusion, unfortunately I doubt that there is much that can be done
about this.  The only slight hope is that future releases of Ubuntu (by
then you would probably need to use the lighter Xubuntu or Lubuntu on
that machine) will probably switch from using the classic softpipe
software rasterizer to the newer and faster LLVMpipe software
rasterizer.  This has already occurred on Fedora 15 if you want to give
that a try - I'm not sure if they have a version with a "light" desktop.

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Title:
  ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Just downloaded the file spooks_11_09_04.flv (a 640 x 360, H.264 video
  codec / MPEG-4 AAC audio codec, 25 frames a second FLV file) using the
  Python iView file streaming application and, with no other
  applications running, tried to play it back with the new Media Player
  (Totem Movie Player 2.32.0) which installed with the 11.01 Natty
  Narwhal upgrade that I did yesterday evening. The previous version of
  this application had the Flashplayer plugin installed and working
  perfectly. Now, on this new version, I can only see flickering pieces
  of the video images when I press the F11 key repeatedly to go between
  full screen and window modes, as if a black overlay is blocking an
  underlying image from being viewed. I also just tried playing a
  regular (non Flashplayer) MP4 video and that encounters the same
  problem. Please advise a workaround. Thanks in anticipation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.32-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Apr 30 20:28:45 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (1 days ago)

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