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Khuutra on 19 May 2010
chenguo4 said:
Khuutra said:
chenguo4 said:
And your youtube vids crash your computer? What happens? Does your browser freeze? Does anything else crash with the browser? etc etc.

It causes my wireless to disconnect, and it doesn't reconnect until I switch the card off and then back on. This isn't just a Youtube problem thoug, it seems to be Flash in general that does this - though higher res flash videos seem to do it faster, for some reason.

I initially assumed it was my wireless card. Now I'm running a Windows driver for my wireless card through ndiswrapper and have cofirmed it's working correctly. Now I'm worried that it's something more... bothersome, like Flash itself.

Wow that's really interesting... What if say... instead of loading a flash video, you're downloading a file? Sometimes if you're using a lot of bandwidth ISP's will cut you off briefly. This happens to me sometimes when I torrent, and i have to disconnect and reconnect. Though it sounds like you get cut off after a few seconds, whereas for me it's on the order of 5-10 minutes.

Nope. I download updates and torrents at the same speed as before, once they've gotten going. There's just a latency in getting them going in the first place, and I can't play flash videos.



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chenguo4 on 19 May 2010
Khuutra said:
chenguo4 said:
Khuutra said:
chenguo4 said:
And your youtube vids crash your computer? What happens? Does your browser freeze? Does anything else crash with the browser? etc etc.

It causes my wireless to disconnect, and it doesn't reconnect until I switch the card off and then back on. This isn't just a Youtube problem thoug, it seems to be Flash in general that does this - though higher res flash videos seem to do it faster, for some reason.

I initially assumed it was my wireless card. Now I'm running a Windows driver for my wireless card through ndiswrapper and have cofirmed it's working correctly. Now I'm worried that it's something more... bothersome, like Flash itself.

Wow that's really interesting... What if say... instead of loading a flash video, you're downloading a file? Sometimes if you're using a lot of bandwidth ISP's will cut you off briefly. This happens to me sometimes when I torrent, and i have to disconnect and reconnect. Though it sounds like you get cut off after a few seconds, whereas for me it's on the order of 5-10 minutes.

Nope. I download updates and torrents at the same speed as before, once they've gotten going. There's just a latency in getting them going in the first place, and I can't play flash videos.

And this flash is the same flash you installed from the package manager? Adobe flash nonfree or something like that?




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Khuutra on 19 May 2010
chenguo4 said:
Khuutra said:
chenguo4 said:

Wow that's really interesting... What if say... instead of loading a flash video, you're downloading a file? Sometimes if you're using a lot of bandwidth ISP's will cut you off briefly. This happens to me sometimes when I torrent, and i have to disconnect and reconnect. Though it sounds like you get cut off after a few seconds, whereas for me it's on the order of 5-10 minutes.

Nope. I download updates and torrents at the same speed as before, once they've gotten going. There's just a latency in getting them going in the first place, and I can't play flash videos.

And this flash is the same flash you installed from the package manager? Adobe flash nonfree or something like that?

Yes indeedy - though I did it through a terminal, following an online guide.



chenguo4 on 19 May 2010

Well, I'm afraid I've got nothing then. I suspected either you had an unstable version of flash or video driver problems, but this doesn't seem like either. Hopefully the folks at ubuntu forums can be more helpful.




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Khuutra on 19 May 2010
chenguo4 said:
Well, I'm afraid I've got nothing then. I suspected either you had an unstable version of flash or video driver problems, but this doesn't seem like either. Hopefully the folks at ubuntu forums can be more helpful.

Haha, yeah, only problem (and upside, I guess) is that this is happening to a lot of people. Problem in that it's widespread and there's no fix yet, upside in that when it is fixed it may be part of a distributed update. I can hope.



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chenguo4 on 19 May 2010
Khuutra said:
chenguo4 said:
Well, I'm afraid I've got nothing then. I suspected either you had an unstable version of flash or video driver problems, but this doesn't seem like either. Hopefully the folks at ubuntu forums can be more helpful.

Haha, yeah, only problem (and upside, I guess) is that this is happening to a lot of people. Problem in that it's widespread and there's no fix yet, upside in that when it is fixed it may be part of a distributed update. I can hope.

Man that's a damn shame. Lucid was supposed to be the release that attracts lots of new users. If this problem is common it's not much of a first impression.




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Current playing: No More Heroes

Mohasus on 19 May 2010

Installed after reading this thread, and so far is it great. Played heroes of newerth, installed the restricted extras package, deluge, gnome mplayer and didn't have to install banshee cuz rhythmbox works properly now (it wouldnt add files from a NTFS partition some versions ago). :D

oh, firefox was really slow, but after some tweaks in about:config it is fine. and emesene crashed a lot, so I uninstalled. :/



Severance on 19 May 2010

Empathy is a lot better than emesene



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IllegalPaladin on 19 May 2010

I tried to use Mac4Lin for the hell of it, but it doesn't seem to work fully install.

Then again, I'm not really used to Ubuntu so I'm probably missing something (or a bunch of things) to get it to work.



radha on 19 May 2010

someone knows how to fix the blue tint in every video????



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