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mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

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Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

Starting yesterday afternoon, Flash started "freezing" about every 8-10 minutes when watching lectures on YouTube. Sometimes a simple refresh will fix the problem, and sometimes I have to move the little position "cruton" on the video to a bit before or AFTER the trouble spot. (Usually moving it BEFORE doesn't work, but occasionally moving it sfter the trouble spot will work.) Here is an example lecture I was watching (in 360p):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD2P_9NK … E3&index=7

Yesterday, the following updates were done to the system that morning:

[2010-03-17 09:52] upgraded kernel26-firmware (2.6.32.9-1 -> 2.6.32.10-1)
[2010-03-17 09:53] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.32.9-1 -> 2.6.32.10-1)
[2010-03-17 09:53] upgraded kernel26-headers (2.6.32.9-1 -> 2.6.32.10-1)
[2010-03-17 09:53] upgraded libmysqlclient (5.1.44-1 -> 5.1.45-1)
[2010-03-17 09:53] upgraded mysql-clients (5.1.44-1 -> 5.1.45-1)
[2010-03-17 09:53] upgraded mysql (5.1.44-1 -> 5.1.45-1)

I wouldn't suspect the kernel, but who knows? Anyway, there WERE updates I would be more suspicious of from the 15th -- namely:

[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded apr (1.3.9-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded apr-util (1.3.9-3 -> 1.3.9-4)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded apache (2.2.14-3 -> 2.2.15-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded x264 (20100207-2 -> 20100312-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded ffmpeg (30526-1 -> 22511-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded cinelerra-cv (20100208-1 -> 20100313-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded groff (1.20.1-3 -> 1.20.1-4)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded libarchive (2.8.0-1 -> 2.8.1-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded libass (0.9.8-1 -> 0.9.9-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded liboil (0.3.16-1 -> 0.3.17-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded man-db (2.5.6-1 -> 2.5.7-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded man-pages (3.23-1 -> 3.24-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded mlt (0.5.0-1 -> 0.5.2-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded mplayer (30526-1 -> 30886-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded mtools (4.0.12-1 -> 4.0.13-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded polkit (0.96-1 -> 0.96-2)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded tzdata (2010b-1 -> 2010e-1)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded vi (050325-2 -> 050325-3)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded vlc (1.0.5-4 -> 1.0.5-5)
[2010-03-15 08:48] upgraded xorg-server (1.7.5.901-2 -> 1.7.5.902-1)

I have not tried downgrading any packages yet. I am testing running Firefox from a terminal and see if any errors are thrown when the video stops. I am posting to see if anyone else can confirm this stuff happening.

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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

Mine stops every 1-2 Minutes, don't know for how long that's been like this - but it worked a lot better a few weeks ago.

Did you figure anything out?

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

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Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

Nope. I'm just "living with it" for now.

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Xenodamus

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Registered: 2006-11-09

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Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

Mine stops every 1-2 Minutes, don't know for how long that's been like this - but it worked a lot better a few weeks ago.

Did you figure anything out?

Ditto, flash/youtube also abruptly stops after every 1 to 2 minute intervals and I have to click right at where it ends to continue the stream.
It is woring well in windows, so I assume the problem is either due to a network/QoS issue on Arch or that the flashplugin is just crappy.

Nope. I'm just "living with it" for now.

Well I'm not living with it and would like to get it fixed asap.  It is getting very annoying with those abrupt stops, and I can't get html 5 videos to work.

Last edited by Xenodamus (2010-07-11 01:24:58)

fredszaq

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From: France

Registered: 2009-04-23

Posts: 26

Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

I don't have this problem (or i didn't encontered it yet) but my flash is a bit laggy, especially when playing hd.

to solve this problem i wrote a little bash script that I launch when I want to play a video on youtube, vimeo dailymotion, all you need to do to get it working is to leave the flash player playing just the time for it to start downloading the video, then pause it (it will continue downloading) and launch the script (i've got a shortcut on my gnome panel to do this)

here is my script :

#!/bin/bash

#
# Script Bash permettant d'ouvrir avec Mplayer (en utilisant VDPAU) les videos actuellement lues par le lecteur flash afin de pouvoir les lire de facon fluide
# Si plusieurs videos sont actuellement lues, le script affiche une fenetre (en utilisant zenity) pour demander laquelle lire
# 
# Dependances : bash, mplayer (avec vdpau, il vous faut une carte nvidia) et zenity
# 
# Auteur : Fredszaq 
# 


FLASH=$(ls /tmp |grep Flash)
if [ -n "$FLASH" ]
then
    COUNT=$(echo "$FLASH" |  wc -l )
    if [ $COUNT != 1 ]
    then 
        FLASH=$(zenity --list --column=Fichier $FLASH)
    fi
    mplayer  -vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau /tmp/$FLASH
else
    zenity --error --text="No Flash file in /tmp !"
fi

you can easily tune it to fit on you system. eg if you don't have an nvidia card, you can use mplayer without the "-vo vdpau -vc ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau " options or vlc (in fact something that is able to play hd videos smoothly on your system )

I use zenity to ask the user whitch video to play when there are several in /tmp, you can also change that if you don't use zenity^^

hope this will help

Last edited by fredszaq (2010-07-11 13:51:23)

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

I never found a "fix". I just paused the vid and let it buffer. But sometimes it'd quit buffering. I honestly have no clue. And it's not on every video either -- just some. It mainly happened on the 1+ hour Calculus lectures from Berkley.

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ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

Maybe your root-partition was full? That's the case for me, if flash doesn't want to play.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: Flash "Stops" on YouTube after every 8-10 minutes.

If you meant me, no. I've got 137 Gig free.

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Matt

"It is very difficult to educate the educated."