Online video streaming choppy

[Joe Ker1086]

Hello, recently realized that when streaming online video from a site such as fancast or hulu the video is REALLY choppy....I dont think it has always been like this but I usually do not use ubuntu to watch online media so I am not positive. Any assistance would be appriciated.

[soldier1st]

if they are using flash then flash is the problem but not much you can do until HTML5 becomes mainstream.

[Joe Ker1086]

Yea, its flash, is there really nothing that can be done???

[cchhrriiss121212]

Yea, its flash, is there really nothing that can be done???

Here is what I do to watch flash video flawlessly:
Go to page with video, press start and pause the video so that it is loading
Navigate to your /tmp folder and open the flv file there with movie player or whatever you like to use
Enjoy

If you have a slow connection then it is not perfect as the video file will stop whenever your download speed becomes slower than the rate of playback (ie whenever you see a buffering or loading message in the flash video).