Video OK with daily build but not with 12.10?

[clucas]

HP Pavillion G7. Running 12.10 the video is choppy. Any video....Youtube, DVD's, CNN video, etc. However, I decided to try the daily build of 13.04 last evening and the video is superb! Is there any way to determine if there is a file or driver that is in 13.04 that I could copy and use with 12.10? I'm anxious and don;t want to wait until the "real" release.

[cariboo]

It would help if you let us know what graphics adapter your system has, and if you installed any additional graphics drivers, or if your are just using the default installation.

[DisappearingOak]

If you are using Chrome you could try disabling pepperflash.

It's possible that it could be a problem with Unity as I also experienced jerky flash playback in games in Unity, but not when using other distros based on 12.10. Have you tried another DE?

[clucas]

My system's processor is AMD A6-4400M APU with Radeon HD Graphics x2. The graphics driver: Gallium 0.4 on LLVMPIPE (LLUM 0X301). I have not installed any additional drivers. Everything is default.

It is not only in Chrome but other apps, like Plex. Besides, I tried Firefox with the same choppiness.

And as I said, with the daily of 13.04 there is no choppiness.

[clucas]

A follow up:

I've tried different desktops and this is the situation:

Cinnamon - not choppy in Youtube - lousy otherwise (menu items not showing up, colors going gray, splotches instead of icons)
Cinnamon 2D - choppy video - everything else is pefect
Gnome Classic - not choppy - otherwise there are random lines that come & go
Gnome Classic (no effects) - not choppy - all else is fine
Ubuntu (default) - not choppy - otherwise crappy, random lines, colors

Any thoughts?