when i go fullscreen in youtube videos are awful quality

breadbin · 02-28-2014, 05:15 AM

i just reinstalled linux after a hiatus of about 2 years and forgot how fantastic it is. i installed linux mint 14 and everything worked perfectly. i was watching a video on youtube and have it set at 360p and looks perfectly smooth etc but when i went fullscreen it was horrible. blocky, laggy was like watching a slide show. do i need to install drivers or something?

i'm on a laptop but i know the laptop can handle that resolution fullscreen, i have 4Gb ram, integrated video. is there a way to popout the video into its own box? maybe that might help

its a toshiba satellite entry level laptop but only a year old.

snowday · 02-28-2014, 05:31 AM

What is your video chipset? How can we tell if you need to install drivers, without knowing what your hardware is.

breadbin · 02-28-2014, 05:53 AM

well i wasn't sure if linux mint installed new drivers or if i had to. and whether its a driver issue or something inherent in youtube.

its an amd e-300 with radeon hd graphics is what the system devices thing says. and under pci devices i see ATI Wrestler aka HD6310. and thanks for replying

edit: its not the drivers cos i just installed the ati drivers and still have the same problem.

snowday · 02-28-2014, 07:51 AM

Try 'youtube-dl' and watch the video locally from your hard drive. Do you notice a difference?

breadbin · 02-28-2014, 08:06 AM

yeah massive difference. i just downloaded it and watched it in 720p in vlc and works perfectly.

i just went into my plugins and they are up to date but i have 5 video plugins in there. i have quicktime, shockwave, vlc, divx, windows media player all installed. would they be clashing with each other or something?

snowday · 02-28-2014, 08:13 AM

Cool, there is no physical/hardware reason why your computer cannot play high-quality video; that is a good troubleshooting step.

Can you try watching the videos with html5 instead of Flash?

http://www.youtube.com/html5

breadbin · 02-28-2014, 08:53 AM

well that did seem to improve it. it gets rid of the lag anyway but the quality is still a bit muck. i decided to try it on google chrome so i installed it and what do you know its perfect! without even setting it to html5 it works great and the quality is there. i didn't expect it to make any difference because i thought they would be using the same flash player thing right?

i'd prefer to use firefox though because i'm not a huge fan of google as a whole but i'll keep trying