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Re: Video Problems - Saucy

 

OK amigo, will give that a go ;)

Thanks!

P.S.
Any kind of tweaks or something similar I can do to the machine/browser so
it would play a bit better?

P.S. 2
If P4 can't handle videos probably then, for sure, P3 or less powerful
machine can not do that, right?




On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Federico Leoni <effelle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> XBMC is a media center.
>
> http://xbmc.org/
>
> Should be on repos too but th latest stable version is on PPA
> (ppa:team-xbmc/ppa ). Give it a try.
>
> F.
>
> 2013/7/10 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > If Firefox can't handle this correctly because the CPU is not strong
> enough
> > for nowadays videos, then I don't believe Chromium will, specially that
> > machine has less than 512MB RAM. Oh, and it is not about RAM - as you can
> > clearly see on the video I recorded for my desktop, it is not a RAM
> issue.
> > zRAM is enabled by default anyway and there is so much space. CPU is at
> > 80%-90% all the way.
> >
> > XBMC? is that a downloading tool and a player?
> >
> > The Eps I'm watching are 20mins length. It is true that my internet is a
> bit
> > fast but not SO fast. Downloading and then watching means more time.
> >
> > I was looking for a way that I can watch without downloading :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Federico Leoni <effelle@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Ali, I tried  even with forced GPU rendering on Chrome. In this way is
> >> a little bit better but video are not smooth like with video played
> >> locally. Try to watch yourself a Youtube video using XBMC or other app
> >> or download it a watch locally. You'll see the problem is we cant
> >> handle correctly the html code for some reasons but I do not know
> >> which one... I'm not  a programmer. :P
> >>
> >> F.
> >>
> >> 2013/7/10 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Hello Federico,
> >> >
> >> > So, are you saying there is no way to have a better quality on that
> very
> >> > machine?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Federico Leoni <effelle@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> For me has always been so. And I have a P4 3 ghz, a GT210 and I'm
> >> >> using Nvidia drivers. No composite manager enable. I always thought
> >> >> that it was the fault of the P4 that is too "old" to manage at the
> >> >> best Flash or html5... Video on XBMC, even if 1080p play fine.
> >> >>
> >> >> F.
> >> >>
> >> >> 2013/7/10 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blgJ-v2IkVI
> >> >> > Idle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wmaxoo6Cpg
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have no idea if you can tell from the video or not? I guess it is
> >> >> > clear.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm having hard time watching anything on that machine:
> >> >> > http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any one else having the same problem? I'm not sure who has the same
> >> >> > machine
> >> >> > that I do or even similar?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Any way to make this better and faster? I'm using that machine at
> the
> >> >> > moment
> >> >> > as a video player and I'm connecting it to my 32" LCD.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> >
> >> >> > "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Best Regards,
> >> >> > amjjawad
> >> >> > Start Ubuntu
> >> >> > My Own Business
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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> >> >
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> >> > amjjawad
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> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> > amjjawad
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> >
>



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