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Re: Video Problems - Saucy

 

Downloading the video is just for testing purposes... The problem is, P4
can play videos quite nice! I used less powerfull processor do it without a
problem. But Flash Videos is another matter...

Did you tried with both free and non-free flash plugin?


2013/7/10 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>

> 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
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>> >> >> >
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