Re: Help with u tube video streaming
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:38:34PM +0000, Chris S wrote:
> Hello everyone genius type people,
> Can you help, I don't know much about computers (in comparison to you guys)
> and nearly zero about linux/debian, however after my friend had a rather
> fatal problem with windows recently I decided to try Debian and I love it.
> So I installed the lastest stable version, etch, and have very nearly got a
> system with the same functionality as the old windows system however I
> simply cannot seem to get u tube videos to play correctly., under windows
> they ran perfectlly but now the video is very 'jerky'. I am unsure about the
> further details you require and so instead of guessing could you let me know
> what you need (and maybe how to find it) I will send you the details. I have
> googled myself to near insanity but cannot find anything that directly
> helps. My apologies if I'm not being clear or doing something wrong.
>
I'm not trying to say something completely useless here, but perhaps you
should try updated to Lenny? Etch is soon to be an unsupported version
of Debian, so I would honestly upgrade before getting into anything.
Anyway, I've had lots of problems with flash in Debian, so I eventually
dumped it. For my YouTube fix I'm using a Greasemonkey script[1] to play
YouTube videos in mplayer (for this you'll need the mplayer browser
plugin)
Also, for simpler problems like this, perhaps #debian is more suitable?
You'll get quicker answers to these questions instead of waiting for
hours.
[1]http://www.gc-group.dk/youtube/
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