Choppy video playback [mainly in browser Flash player]

[Mastah Jay]

Hey,

I have a problem. The video playback in browser, every browser, using Flash plugin [e.g. YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.] plays smoothly but freezes for a second or two every once in a while. This happens during full screen playback as well as windowed one.

I also have a problem getting smooth playback using windowed mode of SubEdit player [I translate stuff so need this player feature, can't replace it for Media Player Classic], even though full screen playback is just fine. Same clips playback perfectly in MPC, VLC and other players. I guess the problem is somehow connected with the player, although my colleagues didn't experience this problem, neither did they experience choppy Flash playback.

Any ideas? I'm using 190.38_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql as drivers.

 

[zigzag3143]

Hey,

I have a problem. The video playback in browser, every browser, using Flash plugin [e.g. YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.] plays smoothly but freezes for a second or two every once in a while. This happens during full screen playback as well as windowed one.

I also have a problem getting smooth playback using windowed mode of SubEdit player [I translate stuff so need this player feature, can't replace it for Media Player Classic], even though full screen playback is just fine. Same clips playback perfectly in MPC, VLC and other players. I guess the problem is somehow connected with the player, although my colleagues didn't experience this problem, neither did they experience choppy Flash playback.

Any ideas? I'm using 190.38_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql as drivers.

Mastah

Hi and welcome to seven forums

could you open task manager and watch the performance tab while pplaying back something. Let us know what is using the memory and how much ram, and cpu is being used

Ken

 

[Mastah Jay]

Thanks for a quick reply and a warm welcome

While playing Flash player video [YouTube, for testing purposes] 20-35% CPU was on Firefox which also used about 100MB RAM.

SubEdit takes 20-30% CPU and 20-30MBs of memory. Windowed choppy playback may be the result of uninstalling WMP12 altogether and installing WMP11. That's necessary for SubEdit to work as it's primarly based on WMP 6.4 and it fails to playback video while WMP12 is installed. Still, this doesn't explain why there isn't a smooth playback in browser Flash clips.

 

[xordis]

Same problem here.
It's driving me made.

I have tried the following

Players
- WMP that comes with windows 7
- Classic media player
- KMPlayer

Codecs
- standard
- CCCP
- Sharks007

Updated Nvidia drivers a few times.

Basically what happens for all video/audio playback (avi's, movs, youtube, anything, even windows booting has done it I think)

It happens a lot worse when moving windows round on the other screen (dual screens)
Audio and video clicks and pauses (millisecond like)

Makes watching anything on the PC useless.

 

[zigzag3143]

Same problem here.
It's driving me made.

I have tried the following

Players
- WMP that comes with windows 7
- Classic media player
- KMPlayer

Codecs
- standard
- CCCP
- Sharks007

Updated Nvidia drivers a few times.

Basically what happens for all video/audio playback (avi's, movs, youtube, anything, even windows booting has done it I think)

It happens a lot worse when moving windows round on the other screen (dual screens)
Audio and video clicks and pauses (millisecond like)

Makes watching anything on the PC useless.

X

A couple of suggestions. remove all the codec packs. Try VLC as a player (it plays most formats without codecs added).

Also could you fill in your system specs (lower left corner) so we know what ahrdware you have

Ken

 

[xordis]

Updated.

Trying VLC ... seams much better for avi playback

 

[dhar890723]

I have a problem. The video playback in browser, every browser, using Flash plugin [e.g. YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.] plays smoothly but freezes for a second or two every once in a while. This happens during full screen playback as well as windowed one.

If the audio doesn't skip when the video stutters, then you may have described a known problem in FireFox 3.x which is also observed in Vista. However, I haven't seen it in "every browser"; in particular, IE is immune.

 

[xordis]

I jumped the gun a little with saying it was fixed.

It was working fine in both WMP and VLC.

Tonight its happening in VLC.
Back to the drawing board.

 

[xordis]

anyone have any ideas?

 

[Missjane]

I have a similar problem too..
Videos played on any website (youtube) are jerky ( have black spots at places.. and color fades. )
if i download and play them, they are just fine.

is window 7 interprise 32 bit compatible with flash player?
i have latest flash player installed "Abode 10.1.82.76"
plzz Help me.

Btw, i have HP probook 4510s.

 

[Solarstarshines]

clear the internet cache then restart the browser

also clear all the history that should make it come back to full speed get rid of cookies you dont need as well

Ps by the way that is a Internet browser problem has nothing to do with your vidcard

 

[rwb1959]

I've had the same problem the moment our organization switched to Windows 7 installed on new laptops.
Our previous laptops were installed with Windows Vista and no problems with any browser.
Also my XP Prof. and Linux laptops have no problems.
All using the same wireless networks (albeit older laptops are generally a bit slower).

I have tried all the browser "cleaning" suggested here as well as installing and testing Chrome and Safari.
All have the same chop so I also installed the latest Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and
still no luck. It must be something to do with Flash Player on Windows 7 since it works everywhere else.

Just to be complete...

Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit
Dell E6410
Intel Core i5

 

[rwb1959]

Some additional observations....

When playing "live" video streams, there is no problem. Additionally, certain video "clips" on news sites do play fine but the embedded player seems to be an older version (when you right click on the video and see the player info on top). The problem only manifests with more "up to date" source player versions. I haven't yet done an extensive set of "apples to apples" tests using XP and Linux.

 

[MrXindeed]

I've had the same problem with video ever since upgrading to SP1. Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one.

 

[karmyguy27]

I had the same problem, and all i did was right click on the flash player plugin and uncheck the hardware acceleration checkbox and restarted the browser and that seemed to take care of the problem for me. Hope that it helps

 

[Mshetsyan]

fixed for me

Updated audio driver, it fixed.
The reason I have experienced choppiness is that after installing windows 7 on my PC, there was sound drivers installed automatically, which was a generic sound driver and was not working perfectly with sound card. So I downloaded correct driver for my sound card and choppiness has gone.