Problems with flash content

[Frylock2009]

I seem to be having a problem with streaming video. Video is jumpy with any kind of flash content in fullscreen, (animation/cartoons) not so bad. Movies I have on disk or from dvd in mplayer run just fine.

pIII 1.0 ghz 256 ram and a GEforce mx440 64megs ram (Ubuntu 9.4 jaunty)

Unfortunately I was reduced to this the other day....(extra fan shorted out mobo, ugh) But I would think it would be enough. Any other info that might be needed, just let me know, thanx. (nvidia drivers are installed)

[coopstah13]

flash is unfortunately quite a CPU hog, what is your CPU usage when trying to watch the videos?

[Frylock2009]

It does spike up a bit, but I booted up windows and everything is fine there. And before I reinstall It was ok .

[coopstah13]

are you sure the drivers are in use? when you open terminal what is output of

glxinfo | grep -i direct

if it is not yes, then the drivers are not in use

[Frylock2009]

Yes it is in use

glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes

I even play nexuiz on this machine and no problems w/ that either. I figure if I can run that than I should have no problems w/ a flash video.

[rokytnji]

You can also type into the address bar in fireox

about:plugins

to see what is playing flash videos. This is what my Firefox 3.5 lists as flash player plugin

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

[Frylock2009]

application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

what is that second entry? I dont see that in the plug-ins list in the add-ons menu
And the default plug-in in (aboutlugins) says its disabled, but in the preferances menu says its enabled. Nevermind about that second entry, noticed yours is the same.

[rokytnji]

what is that second entry? I dont see that in the plug-ins list in the add-ons menu

That is probably because you are not running Firefox 3.5 but whatever Ubuntu 9.04 uses as the default Firefox after install. Firefox 3.0.xxx whatever. I am in Antix right now and it runs Iceweasel (Debian Firefox with a different name is all)as the default browser and I installed Firefox 3.5 on my own. I posted in your other thread how I think 256mb ram on that Dell is a little weak for Ubuntu 9.04. I like Antix (Debian and Mepis based Distro) because it runs well on 256mb of ram. Ubuntu I usually install on a minimum of 512 mb of ram. And even then it runs slower than AntiX on 256mb of ram. Just my preference though. Freedom and all that stuff.

[Frylock2009]

I have AntiX runnin off the live cd, No improvment, I installed, thinking the performance might be compromised with the live cd. I didn't want to overwrite my mbr so I installed to /root. I'm just not sure about adding it to my ubuntu menu.lst. I have it installed on /hdb8.

/dev/hdb1 ext3
/dev/hdb2 extended

/dev/hdb6 ext3
/dev/hdb8 ext3 (AntiX install)
/dev/hdb5 fat32
/dev/hdb7 swap

This is what I came up with on my own...

title AntiX (on /dev/sdb
root (sd1,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb8
boot

can ya let me know If I'm even half right? lol

[rokytnji]

I kinda ran into this when I did a flash drive install of linux. When you boot up grub before you edit Ubuntus menu.lst. Pick out the Antix entry of Grub boot menu when you first turn on the computer. When you get your grub error whatever. Pick out the line root in the menu list. Hit e to edit. Change , root (sd1,7) to something like root (hdb8,1) and then hit enter. Then hit b for boot. If that combo doesn't work try another like (hdb1, or experiment. This will not take on the menu.lst in Ubuntu. You are using this feature to find which combination will boot up your install. After you find the right combo for root to find your install and boots up. Then write it down or remember what you used for booting. Then you can edit Ubuntus Menu List Accordingly. Hope that makes sense to you.