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Mr. Franklin 08-01-2017 05:44 PM

I'm on Linuxmint sonya and when I go on youtube my videos play slow... like not matching whats being spoken!
 
I tried different ways but no luck! Heres my info can anyone tell me why I am having problems with playing youtube videos. they lag and glitch and its annoying!
Dual core Intel Celeron N2840 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
clock speeds: max: 2582 MHz 1: 2582 MHz 2: 2582 MHz
CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts
clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept
erms est flexpriority fpu fxsr ht ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor
movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge
pni popcnt pse pse36 rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep ss sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr

Habitual 08-01-2017 06:15 PM

Hello and Welcome to LQ!

We'll need some more sysinfo using inxi, so open a terminal and issue
Code:

inxi -c0 -Fszr | pastebin
and paste the resulting url link here in your reply.

"Browser" is Firefox, by default. Is that what we're yakking about here?
Version?

Thanks!

hydrurga 08-01-2017 06:22 PM

Hi, Mr Franklin, and welcome to LQ.

How much RAM have you got in there?

Also, which video card do you have?

There's a possibility that your system may be a bit underpowered to run Cinnamon.

Edit: Oops, Habitual got in there before me...

DavidMcCann 08-02-2017 11:24 AM

Youtube has got much more demanding recently, and HTML5 is worse than Flash in this respect. You've got two things running that use a lot of graphics processing: Firefox and Cinnamon. Just try installing Mate and switching to it at log-in and see if that helps.

ondoho 08-03-2017 03:39 AM

most likely your machine hasn't enough oomph, or graphical hardware acceleration is unavailable, or both.
for the gpu, please post the output of
Code:

lspci -k | grep -A5 VGA
(although it's possible that the inxi ouput provides the same info).

other than that, don't use youtube directly but use mpv & youtube-dl. hey, there's even a firefox addon!

edit:
oops, cinnamon on an old celeron... no, no. lightweight you must go. MATE is good.


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