Re: Choppy video

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:43:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I'm trying to watch www.ctv.ca from a macbook pro (2GHz dual core with
> ATI graphics) and am having problems where the video is going slow (I'd
> estimate around 5fps).  This is using Debian testing with the nonfree
> Adobe flash player ("obviously" since gnash doesn't even display any
> video at all).  The audio is fine, OTOH.

Gnash devels will love to hear from the problems you are experiencing. 
Have you considered in opening a bug report? Just to help them with these 
things.

> `top' says that most of the CPU time (around 130%) is used by
> "plugin-container", so I'd guess the video thread using 100% of one core
> and the rest (e.g. audio thread) using the remaining 30% of the other
> core.
> 
> While the machine is not brand new, it's not that slow and under Mac OS
> X it renders the video just fine, so I suspect there's a software
> problem, or maybe some video hardware acceleration whose driver is
> missing?
> 
> Does anyone has an idea of what might be going on, what I might try to
> fix it, or at least how to try and figure out what is going on (e.g. how
> to find out which codec is being used, for a start)?

I usually can play flash content just fine (smoothly) from my main box 
(lenny, firefox 7, nvidia driver and flash player 11.x).

Have you tested with another sites? Maybe "ctv.ca" is having some sort of 
problem with streaming or bandwidth :-?

Anyway, I would first ensure that both, the player and browser are up-to-
date and if you still see the same for other sites, start debugging the 
problem more deeply.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón