Flash Video Playback Really Choppy

[nbaes]

Hi,

I have a reasonably powerful PC with an Nvidia FX5200 PCI video card (correct drivers installed via restricted drivers manager) running Ubuntu 7.10. For some reason, I am getting absolutely the choppiest playback of Flash videos that I have ever seen this side of a 486. I have no clue what is causing this; I have turned off Compiz and lowered color depth to 16 bits in xorg.conf, but still Flash videos play back absolutely terribly (like 15 FPS or so). I installed Flash from Adobe's site (latest build) because I had the "md5sum" error when trying to do it via Firefox. Has anyone run into this issue before? I can run Windows XP on this same PC and I get excellent Flash playback (even with the exact same sites and videos). What is the deal here? I love Ubuntu, but Flash is a huge part of what I do with my PC (I don't have a TV b/c I'm a ridiculously poor student), and having this limited performance totally bums me out. I know there are about a billion people on here that are way smarter than I am...any suggestions at all? Any help would really be appreciated!

[markusf21]

I would suggest uninstalling flash and then running this in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

should fix it

[ihatethetv]

I was running into this problem too with my 8600GT...I pulled it and tried my ATI onboard video just for kicks...turns out that fixed it...or at least made it a lot better.

This suggests to me that it's a video driver problem. I'm running the most current nvidia driver as of today 6/27/2008.

I went over and bellyached at nvidia in their forums here: I encourage you to do so as well if you're having this problem.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s...5&#entry401485

Good luck,
Glen

[slyn4ice]

Actually if you install wine, then firefox for windows and the windows flash plugin you get a perfectly working flash - no choppines, not even in fullscreen. And since i only care about flash when i am watching videos (youtube, etc.) i just use the windows firefox for that purpose.

Just a suggestion

[almalaci]

Originally Posted by slyn4ice Actually if you install wine, then firefox for windows and the windows flash plugin you get a perfectly working flash - no choppines, not even in fullscreen. And since i only care about flash when i am watching videos (youtube, etc.) i just use the windows firefox for that purpose. Just a suggestion

Not for me: Under wine it's the same choppiness. I have now flasplayer 10 installed under ubuntu which also doesn't make any difference.