Youtube videos slow and jerky only in Puppy

[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