Media Player issues.
 

I just installed Ubuntu, latest version. I accepted the default Media player.

Here in lies the problem.

When i had Windows installed, i was able to play Youtube at any level without any problems. The Video player played very smooth whether it was in youtube or any other site.

I took windows off, installed Ubuntu, and now, the Video is extremely choppy. The audio is fine, but the Video is like it is playing 1 frame a second, instead of 30 frames a second.

Is there a better media player than the default? Is there a setting I can adjust, like a buffer or something?

I think teh default is Rhythmbox Music player? for the Video

Dwayne

I normally play YouTubes using the flashplayer browser plugin. How do the YouTubes play with the browser plugin?

For testing purposes, I would suggest trying Totem (which I think shows in the menu as "Movie Player") and, if further tests are necessary, installing VLC. It's in the Ubuntu repos; you should be able to install it through the Synaptic Package Manager or through Ubuntu One (or the Ubuntu Software Center, or whatever they are calling it this week).

Also, what type of video card do you have? If you aren't sure, run the lspci command in a terminal; it should report that information.

Then post the result back here. There just might be a driver issue that we can help you with.

I will install the plug in for Firefox and try it out. I will then report back to you. Thank you very much for your help and response.

I do seem to have Totem installed, as well as the Flashplayer when I look at my addons. Both are enabled. It has been using Adobi flashplayer 10.3

Note that Totem/Movie Player has nothing to do with this, it's Flash that plays the video.

Thank you sir.

Basically, what you are saying, is that I am out of luck with firefox, because it is defaulting to the Flash player.
My computer is a older laptop. . .about 8 years old, running 1/4 gig. Windows XP, it ran everything beautifully. Even with
128Meg, it ran extremely well on you tube, once flash and all programs loaded up.

Maybe the browser is the problem? Should I switch out of FireFox to another browser? Is there another program other than flashPlayer that plays the video?

Please realise I am very new to Linux. Been trying to slowly switch my computers to it, and learn as I go along.

The problem is that it's not just a raw video file. It's possible to extract the URL to the actual video file, though, and there are some programs and Firefox plugins that do that. The problem is the the process of doing this is unique for every site, and sites also often change the way you get to the video file. So it will not work everywhere.

You need to get a Flashplayer plugin for Firefox.

In another thread, I described one way to install it.

Hello Frank,

In double checking, Flashplayer is installed in Firefox as a plug in... It is the latest version according to the updates.

The way it looks, I am completely out of luck. I think I have found something that windows outshines (by far) linux in. Granted, my computer is a slower computer (about 8 years old, maybe 9, I think linux uses too much resources to play the flashplayer properly.

With Windows xp, I was able to play with 128 meg of ram, any Youtube that I found flawlessly. I upped my memory to 1 gig, and still can't play youtube without jerks with Linux. It probably boils down to the processor speed.

Thank you all for your help.

Windows uses the GPU to accelerate the flash video, and it doesnt with linux. Blame adobe for that, not linux.

I'm suprised that you can get youtube to work right with 128MB+XP. XP ran OKish with 128MB pre-SP2, but post-SP2 I found it RAM requirements went up enough that 128MB changed from 'oh dear, you're running a bit slow Mr. Computer' to 'work you #^#$%^# thing!'.

*edit- I doubt its the case, but if you are running a 64bit version of ubuntu, flash is a _lot_ worse than it should be. Ubuntu only gives you a 32bit flash plugin with a wrapper to work in 64bit, and its a lot worse than 32bit flash on 32bit, or 64bit flash on 64bit.

I got flash Firefox plug-in but actually it works very strange. When I look at my settings I see that the plug-in is enables but when I try to load the page with flash content it's written that I don't have a required plug-in... What may cause such a problem? flash mp3 player

Check and make sure you have the LATEST version of Flash. . . unfortunately it seems like people like to use only the latest version of flash when they upload, forcing you to "upgrade" to the latest version.

Right now, I show my version as :10,3,181,34

It will run everything that I know of so far. . . .

Excellent catch Cascade, on the 64 bit version. But no, I am running all 32 bit versions of everything.

Yes, you are correct about XP and 128meg of ram. It had to "catch up" before it ran well. And that delay was quite long. I ended up buying 1 gig of ram for the computer, hoping it would fix the delay and "flutter?" of Flash.. . .unfortunately it did not. Granted, it helped it quite a bit, but no fix. I only need to invent an anti-strobe device and maybe things will be normal! <smile>

Here at work, I do have 2 gig of ram, a faster computer, and a desktop instead of a laptop. Flash seems to work well with it. I am also running VMware for my Linux system. WE only need to get Adobe on the ball now. . . <smile>

Dwayne

I sort of guessed that with 128MB it would be a 32bit only system, I'm yet to see a 64bit capable system with 128MB of RAM.

BTW, you might be able to play flash videos that haev finished d/ling (either from /tmp, or from a flash file d/led with one of the grabbers). Not as simple as just doing it online, but hey, its worth a try, right?