Youtube videos slow and jerky only in Puppy

[Watchx11]

Hey. This code works really well on my asus eee pc 2g surf, except, that the audio does not sync with the video.

I've tried the code which includes the command flash-video, instead of just flash, but that doesn't work on my netbook at all.

I was wondering if there is any modification to the code, or any other work around, that would allow me to utilise this code? I'm really tired of only being able to watch youtube in 240p quality.

Thank you.

[Bruce B]

Hey. This code works really well on my asus eee pc 2g surf, except, that the audio does not sync with the video.

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mplayer -cache 1000 $(stat -c %N /proc/*/fd/* 2>&1|awk -F[\`\'] '/lash

There is nothing particular in the commands to sync beyond defaults, if any. Try the man page for more options or another player if the options are not in mplayer.

I've tried the code which includes the command flash-video, instead of just flash, but that doesn't work on my netbook at all.

Does it have Linux OS? Does it have mplayer, stat and awk?

I was wondering if there is any modification to the code, or any other work around, that would allow me to utilise this code? I'm really tired of only being able to watch youtube in 240p quality.

$(stat -c %N /proc/*/fd/* 2>&1|awk -F[\`\'] '/lash locates the flash object (or symlink) in memory.

Knowing how to find it, limits, I guess, are defined by what a person can do with a flash file. For an example, instructions could be sent to play it, decode / encode audio only to mp3 sound file. Whatever on wants.

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[Shep]

Hey. This code works really well on my asus eee pc 2g surf, except, that the audio does not sync with the video.

If in that code you replace mplayer with gmplayer then (providing it still works) you can use the keyboard controls.

To see a few of the most handy, mplayer --help
and includes tapping the '-' or '+' keys to sync the audio.

+ or - adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second

[profaner]

Hello

I'm "new guy"
This is my story:

Fiew weeks ago I saw some HDD less terminal - Igel :

http://allegro.pl/serwer-plikow-torrent ... 95843.html

hmmm nice stuff .
1000MHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, Slitaz Linux Installed - should be a good base for making some home media center - TV as a monitor and eth0 as internet connection.

Fiew years ago I run lots of Linux distros on 166MMX pentium with 32 MB of RAM, so I thing that should not by any problems with this terminal to run Live LINUX.

First I try Slitaz for a week - it was to hard for me.
Second choise Slax - I use this distro time to time and I really like it.
I've got some problems with Slax and other non Vesa graphics ditribiutions I could not strart the Xwindow sometimes I've got big problems with text mode.

Then I found Puppy Linux (onlly Wary and older puppies works good - I think the Vesa driver is the reason).

Puppy is quite small but I have to say powerfull and easy for me.
Almost perfect solution, almost... becouse I got problems with flash -youtube movies (do I really have to say it's important for my "media center" lol).

I thought that should not be a problem when my mobile have no problems to view it properly (yes I know diferent technology etc..).

My question is is there any solution for this flash?
The whole OS work's fine have no problems maybe some "normal lags" but no big problems...
Is there something like Flash Lite for Linux? or some Lite web browsers?

I have to say that I'm shocked that I've got so big problems with it.
I've also tried the Browser Linux maybe works faster but the flash so slow like in other distros.

I've tried Browser Linux, Slitaz, Puppy wary 5.2, 5.2.2 and 214X.

Do you have any sugestions?
If I buy some additonal hardware it will help?
Like RAM, CF card, Graphics or something?

Maybe I should try some hard core distros like DSL or Tiny Core (installing additonal software the would not be so easy like Puppy;)

I just need Linux for Web Browsing watching some movies and maybe torrents thats it.

I'll be very grateful for your sugestions becouse I'm working on it over 2 weeks and really have enough )))

sorry for so long post

[sfeeley]

did you try the tips earlier in this thread? Watching the videos outside your browser should help.

One problem, is that youtube (and elsewhere) are making higher quality videos the default now. Its unlikely your computer will play HD videos smoothly-- but lower quality might look good enough

Try changing flash player settings down from HD.

This firefox plugin might help

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ity-flash/



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[666philb]

hi profaner

this app is brilliant for searching, watching & downloading youtube without a browser... it uses mplayer to play, direct from your desktop.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835

should solve your youtube problem

[profaner]

thx guys for reply


sfeeley yup I tried the previous tips.
Playing it from mplayer it's faster but not fast enough for me

666philb
I'll try this app for sure.
I also thought about changing the flash for some previous version in Browser Linux.
Browser Linux like Puppy it's almost perfect solution for me, all I need It's browser with flash to watch youtube, some app to play movies and music, virtual keybord, maybe a torrent client and that's it

[Semme]

Profaner- maybe try this little Puppy Browser too..

[profaner]

Semme - unfortunately Puppy Browser works also to sloooow

[Semme]

What happened with Philb's suggestion, the one you said you'd try?

[profaner]

yup I'll try it but for me more important is to run sites like youtube smoothly than watch the videos using another program.
I don't know if You know what I'm trying to say
I'm trying to build low cost home media center basically for web browsing and watching movies and using different software for running sites like youtube it's not a perfect solution for me.
I've made some Slitaz experiments and know I think that I'll made some experiments with gnash or swfdec on puppy.

[666philb]

hi profaner

i have an pentium 4 computer.. and whilst it's excellent at doing nearly everything else. it's not powerful enough to stream full screen flash. Even 320p will be jerky. And this is completely flashes fault. flash is cpu and ram intensive, on top of the already cpu and ram hungry browser.

HTML5 fares better, and i can get a decent quality stream, although it still struggles on higher qualities. opt in here http://www.youtube.com/html5

my solutions to this problem have been to use flash downloader plugins like flashgot, also flash video replacer, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... oreplacer/ which uses mplayer or vlc to stream the video embeded within the browser, bypassing adobe flash.

however with youtube, the best solution by far is gtk-youtube-viewer. as it bypasses flash and the browser completely. I can log in to youtube, post comments & search still from within the app. but i can also stream, fullscreen 1080p hd videos completely smoothly!!!! which is impossible for me from within the browser. and if your having a bad interent day, it can download as well. Another positive is there's no adverts.

[profaner]

but i can also stream, fullscreen 1080p hd videos completely smoothly!!!!

hmmmm ))

now I think that I really try it )
The problem for me is that you can't create the playlist but I'll try it and let You know .


on Slitaz work with Opera flash 10 use 89% of CPU!!!!
This is totally disaster. Ram it's not so big problem but CPU usage.... no comment ))

I have to run an older Puppies because on my TV works only the vesa mode.
I'll try it today
I have to say that Puppy is one of the most rookie friendly distros

[Iguleder]

Before you blame Flash, make sure you have the driver for your graphics card installed. If you don't, X will probably use the sane fallback of VESA, which means non-accelerated graphics - i.e your CPU (and not the graphics card!) is used for graphics processing, which means it chokes in many cases.

If you use an Intel graphics card, the driver ships with X; otherwise, if it's NVidia or a Radeon card - get the third-party driver.

[profaner]

hmmmm

it's true that only vesa mode distros starts at my computer.
I've got the via graphic card
Iguleder thanks for tip

The Xorgwizard find my graphic card and drivers to it, but when i start x i've got only the black screen.
Now I'm running the Xvesa mode from Wary.
The GTK Viewer runs good