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  • youtube – is it crap at the moment?
  • hungrymonkey
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    can’t seem to get a decent quality through it at the moment. standard picture quality (not HD), and no change to my internet connection.

    picture is continuously jerky – freezes every 5 seconds or so, and freezes for a couple of seconds at a time, while audio remains. seems like it’s not buffering properly.

    happens on FB, STW and youtube.com

    blumming nightmare – always seems to freeze just before a skier jumps of a cliff or something.

    pausing it doesn’t seem to help, as the upload (grey bar at bottom) just stops 30 secs ahead of where you are.

    👿

    davidjones15
    Free Member

    picture is continuously jerky – freezes every 5 seconds or so, and freezes for a couple of seconds at a time, while audio remains. seems like it’s not buffering properly.

    I’ve had this for a while and put it down to having a cheapo laptop. 🙁

    hungrymonkey
    Free Member

    had my laptop for the past 18 months – only started doing this in the past month or so 🙁

    vimeo is now a lot better than it was…

    nedrapier
    Full Member

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x0QlHZ_tfOw

    just watched this in 1080HD. no hangups. New laptop, though! 10ish Mbps connection. Not noticed a problem, tbh. There was an issue on the download speeds hen I got this first, because there was a power save setting throttling the WiFi speed.

    schrickvr6
    Free Member

    Try updating flash player.

    thepurist
    Full Member

    hungrymonkey – are you using firefox? I’ve noticed this lately too but it seems better on Chrome (unfortunately I don’t play well with Chrome). There’s a few tweaks in about:config that are being posted around the place but TBH it’s making me more productive so I won’t bother fixing it yet.

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    worked fine for me last night on a 2meg connection in the country

    spooky_b329
    Full Member

    Check the laptop isn’t overheating/clogged with dust (fan speeding up) My old one needed the back taking off every few months to clear the dust from the heatsink.

    Try a different browser. Check there is nothing running in the background like a virus scanner.

    flip
    Free Member

    Rubbish lately, adverts on nearly every music video 😐

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