Youtube stops buffering
Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.26 Flah version 10.0.32.18 My wife uses Iceweasel to access youtube and she discovered that recently when she tries to play something it starts to buffer the stream but after a very short while the buffering stops. When the play indicator reaches the end of the buffer mark it stops and won't play any more. She also uses BBC iPlayer but that doesn't give any problems. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction in trying to diagnose this? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On 28/10/09 20:22:35, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.26 Flah version 10.0.32.18
My wife uses Iceweasel to access youtube and she discovered that recently when she tries to play something it starts to buffer the stream but after a very short while the buffering stops. When the play indicator reaches the end of the buffer mark it stops and won't play any more.
She also uses BBC iPlayer but that doesn't give any problems.
Can anyone nudge me in the right direction in trying to diagnose this?
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Mozilla Flash plugin solved the problem. I new you'd be dying to know. :-)) -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
Barry, I run Debian Testing, but Flash (from debian-multimedia) has been completely broken for me for a while. TBH, a lot of things have been broken since the upgrade to KDE 4. Can I ask if you're using KDE or Gnome? I'm considering a complete reinstall of my environment atm, it's that b0rked. Peter. 2009/10/29 Barry Samuels <bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk>:
On 28/10/09 20:22:35, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.26 Flah version 10.0.32.18
My wife uses Iceweasel to access youtube and she discovered that recently when she tries to play something it starts to buffer the stream but after a very short while the buffering stops. When the play indicator reaches the end of the buffer mark it stops and won't play any more.
She also uses BBC iPlayer but that doesn't give any problems.
Can anyone nudge me in the right direction in trying to diagnose this?
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Mozilla Flash plugin solved the problem. I new you'd be dying to know. :-))
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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At Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:45:56 +0000, samwise wrote:
Barry,
I run Debian Testing, but Flash (from debian-multimedia) has been completely broken for me for a while. TBH, a lot of things have been broken since the upgrade to KDE 4.
Are you trying to use flash in Konqueror? And is it the flashplayer-mozilla package? Or something GNU Gnash-based (like Klash)? All options which don't involve Adobe Flash on Firefox have always been a bit dodgy, IMO. When I used to use KDE (ah happy days) I used to reserve Firefox for viewing Flash content and blocked Konqueror from being able to load Flash stuff.
I'm considering a complete reinstall of my environment atm, it's that b0rked.
It can't really be that broken. I think it's going to take a long time before KDE 4 is as stable as 3.5 was before it was effectively discontinued. Maybe use something else in the meantime? I used Fluxbox for quite a long time. But I've switched to a minimal GNOME for now because GTK rendering in Emacs seems to be much smoother in GNOME. Possibly a GTK engines thing? </rambling>
2009/10/29 Barry Samuels <bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk>:
On 28/10/09 20:22:35, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.26 Flah version 10.0.32.18
My wife uses Iceweasel to access youtube and she discovered that recently when she tries to play something it starts to buffer the stream but after a very short while the buffering stops. When the play indicator reaches the end of the buffer mark it stops and won't play any more.
She also uses BBC iPlayer but that doesn't give any problems.
Can anyone nudge me in the right direction in trying to diagnose this?
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Mozilla Flash plugin solved the problem. I new you'd be dying to know. :-))
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Are you trying to use flash in Konqueror? And is it the flashplayer-mozilla package? Or something GNU Gnash-based (like Klash)? All options which don't involve Adobe Flash on Firefox have always been a bit dodgy, IMO. When I used to use KDE (ah happy days) I used to reserve Firefox for viewing Flash content and blocked Konqueror from being able to load Flash stuff.
No: Flash Player is from debian-multimedia.org and am using it with Iceweasel (i.e. Firefox) on Debian Testing AMD64. I think it's a known issue with nspluginwrapper, which has just coincided with my problems with KDE 4.
It can't really be that broken. I think it's going to take a long time before KDE 4 is as stable as 3.5 was before it was effectively discontinued. Maybe use something else in the meantime?
It is quite horrible - they've just either dropped or not released a load of the apps that I had got configured to do things how I like e.g. KAudioCreator. I might move to something else, not decided yet. The other reason I'm considering reinstalling is that my PlayStation pads no longer work through a USB adaptor. They were originally just recognised, but something's changed - whether it's a kernel upgrade or the kde 4 upgrade, I don't know. Haven't had any luck diagnosing the problem, though. :( (tried two adaptors - definitely not a hardware issue). Maybe I will consider another window manager. What's the point in getting dependent on KDE (or GNOME) apps, if you have to wait a coupe of years for them to be supported after every upgrade .... *grrr* Peter.
At Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:33:43 +0000, samwise wrote:
Maybe I will consider another window manager. What's the point in getting dependent on KDE (or GNOME) apps, if you have to wait a coupe of years for them to be supported after every upgrade .... *grrr*
/me hugs emacs. I don't really use any other applications apart from a web browser. And emacs runs the same everywhere (almost). My next plan is to get a cheap VDS, run an emacs daemon on it and then use a selection of devices (netbook, desktop, phone) which can run the emacsclient to have the same "desktop" wherever I am. /me worships at the shrine at Saint IGNUcius -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+
Just out of interest why are you still using ndispluginwrapper, and not native flash 64bit
Cos I'm an idiot. D'oh. Just installed it. Works fine. Still stuck with the USB joypad issue, though and, I also forgot to mention, that both the ntfs-3g and ext3 partitions I have, have started to suffer occasional corruption, which is somewhat concerning. That's yet another reason why I'm considering a re-install ... Peter.
samwise wrote:
Just out of interest why are you still using ndispluginwrapper, and not native flash 64bit
Cos I'm an idiot. D'oh. Just installed it. Works fine.
Still stuck with the USB joypad issue, though and, I also forgot to mention, that both the ntfs-3g and ext3 partitions I have, have started to suffer occasional corruption, which is somewhat concerning. That's yet another reason why I'm considering a re-install ...
On the same physical drive ? If so have you run it past smartmontools, I haven't seen non hardware related ext3 corruption ever, not sure about the userland ntfs tools, but again not seen anything myself but I have used them mostly for reading not writing NTFS volumes.
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 00:51 +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
samwise wrote:
Just out of interest why are you still using ndispluginwrapper, and not native flash 64bit
Cos I'm an idiot. D'oh. Just installed it. Works fine.
Still stuck with the USB joypad issue, though and, I also forgot to mention, that both the ntfs-3g and ext3 partitions I have, have started to suffer occasional corruption, which is somewhat concerning. That's yet another reason why I'm considering a re-install ...
On the same physical drive ?
If so have you run it past smartmontools, I haven't seen non hardware related ext3 corruption ever, not sure about the userland ntfs tools, but again not seen anything myself but I have used them mostly for reading not writing NTFS volumes.
In all cases of repeated filesystem corruption I would also run a RAM test, MemTest86+ or similar not the built in POST, as faulty RAM could cause blocks in the write behind cache to become corrupted and thus damage the filesystem. Regards, Steve.
samwise wrote:
Just out of interest why are you still using ndispluginwrapper, and not native flash 64bit
Cos I'm an idiot. D'oh. Just installed it. Works fine.
On a related note, I installed the 64-bit flash ages ago when it was relatively new, and last week I updated it to the latest build (I can't see how to check the build number from the plugin but I'm fairly sure it was a newer file that I downloaded). Although Flash was working fine before it now seems much more responsive, so I think it's been a worthwhile upgrade. Could all be my perception rather than reality, but thought it might be worth mentioning. Installation was trivial - just copy it over the old 64-bit version. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG
On 29/10/09 13:45:56, samwise wrote:
Barry,
I run Debian Testing, but Flash (from debian-multimedia) has been completely broken for me for a while. TBH, a lot of things have been broken since the upgrade to KDE 4.
Can I ask if you're using KDE or Gnome?
I used to use KDE until it was upgraded to KDE4 and then I decided I didn't like it in its current form. My wife uses KDE4 on her machine and Flash works for her generally I believe. I changed to Fluxbox which I like very much but then started having trouble with some things crashing frequently so I tried xfce which didn't give the same trouble and is where I am at present. I would still prefer Fluxbox but only when those problems are fixed.
I'm considering a complete reinstall of my environment atm, it's that b0rked.
Peter.
2009/10/29 Barry Samuels <bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk>:
On 28/10/09 20:22:35, Barry Samuels wrote:
Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.26 Flah version 10.0.32.18
My wife uses Iceweasel to access youtube and she discovered that recently when she tries to play something it starts to buffer the stream but after a very short while the buffering stops. When the play indicator reaches the end of the buffer mark it stops and won't play any more.
She also uses BBC iPlayer but that doesn't give any problems.
Can anyone nudge me in the right direction in trying to diagnose this?
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
Uninstalling and reinstalling the Mozilla Flash plugin solved the problem. I new you'd be dying to know. :-))
-- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
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