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Choppy flash player movies
Hi
I'm not sure when it started exactly but it's got too bad to ignore now. When watching embedded flash movies in Firefox they play out really stuttery and choppy. The audio is fine but the videos isn't smooth at all.
I have Win 7 64-bit on a 2.53 dual core with 4Gb RAM so I don't think it's a hardware issue. I've made sure I have the latest updates of Firefox, Flash add-on for firefox, Direct X.
I've also tried uninstalling the IDE device driver and re-installing it as suggested by one forum. I've also tried unchecking the 'use hardware acceleration' option in the flash settings.
I found a blog that gave instructions for using a greasemonkey script to play flash content using VLC player. When I play any media files with VLC, it seems to work OK so I thought this would be good, but I couldn't get it to work and it only works for youtube videos, not Vimeo ones.
When I look at the system performance, when a flash video is playing the processor use is at about 70% and the process called 'plugin-container' which is for Firefox uses about 70Mb of memory. When I close the tab with the flash movie content, the processor use drops to between 0% and 10% and the plugin-container uses about 10Mb of memory.
Is there some setting I can change to just allow the movies to play smoothly. Youtube videos are just about bearable but Vimeo ones are pretty much unwatchable.
Any help appreciated
Thanks