| 2009-05-21 00:09:30 |
Reuben Firmin |
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Binary package hint: adobe-flashplugin
I installed adobe-flashplugin with Jaunty, thinking that it was the "official" and therefore best flash playback. However, it caused flash playback to be consistently jittery. Every 10-15 seconds, the video playback would freeze (as if a buffer was empty) but the audio would continue. After 0.5 seconds or so the video would start playing again.
I googled around for information on this, and found a ubuntuforums posting recommending the installation of flashplugin-nonfree. I apt-get installed it in the command line, thinking that the debs would be mutually exclusive, and adobe-flashplugin would be removed, but that wasn't the case. Both are now installed. And, now, with both installed, flash playback is smooth and jitter free. |
I first noticed this in the last month or so, on a regularly patched Kubuntu 9.0.4.
After Firefox has been open for a while (a couple of hours?) Flash video playback becomes jittery. The video will freeze, but the audio will generally continue playing.
Playing the same video in Opera, or restarting Firefox and playing the same video, is guaranteed to smooth the video playback. Trying to restart the video or waiting for the video to be fully buffered, without starting Firefox, does not help.
It's not a networking issue - I can generally see that the Flash player has plenty of video buffered ahead of the playback position. |
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