Netbook video very choppy

Four of a kind

I've a samsung N145 netbook which I just bought a week ago as a secondary carry around laptop.

I've noticed that during youtube clips the video is very choppy but the audio is fine.

I updated the audio drivers a few days ago as it was choppy during playback of movie files.

Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of the choppy video when i'm watching clips from the net on youtube etc..?

thanks

Fysh

Four of a kind wrote: »

I've a samsung N145 netbook which I just bought a week ago as a secondary carry around laptop.

I've noticed that during youtube clips the video is very choppy but the audio is fine.

I updated the audio drivers a few days ago as it was choppy during playback of movie files.

Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of the choppy video when i'm watching clips from the net on youtube etc..?

thanks

Try it with a couple of different browsers, and update your Flash install as well - it may help with streaming video. For local video playback try VLC if you haven't already.

Four of a kind

Fysh wrote: »

Try it with a couple of different , and update your Flash install as well - it may help with streaming video. For local video playback try VLC if you haven't already.

Im using VLC player already and its fine for local playback.

How do i update flash install on chrome?

bhur

Very strange, i have exact same laptop, no problems with youtube vids before, but then i "windows updated" the audio driver, and now im getting choppy sound, maybe we should roll back driver?

Four of a kind

bhur wrote: »

Very strange, i have exact same laptop, no problems with youtube vids before, but then i "windows updated" the audio driver, and now im getting choppy sound, maybe we should roll back driver?

my sound is fine dude....but it wasn't out of the box so I updated sound driver and all was well.

but video is just so laggy even with perfect audio.

don't know what to do, as Im not really techie at this sort of stuff

bhur

Memory is low enough on this netbook (1GB), i searched "netbook optimization windows 7" on google theres a load of good articles on how to get the most from your memory, for a start switching all visual themes to their most basic setting, killing background tasks etc

bhur

If you have a mate whos proficient in tinkering with pcs have a look at this, it will double your memory:


http://cgi.ebay.ie/2GB-RAM-MEMORY-UPGRADE-SAMSUNG-NC10-N145-NETBOOK-/320661876324?pt=UK_Computer_Memory_RAM&hash=item4aa8efee64#ht_3594wt_932

only approx 30 quid too, havent bought it yet but will during the summer when i get a chance to install it

Voodu Child

Make sure you are trying to play a low resolution clip instead of high-res.

Basic single-core Atom netbooks are crap for H.264 video, that's the reason they brought out netbooks with Nvidia Ion graphics.

Also consider a Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder card. Depending on whether you have a free mini-PCIE slot. There was a variant of the N145 that actually came with a Crystal HD so presumeably it does have an extra slot.

bluferbl

Update the video driver...since it's a video problem? Update the WLAN and NIC drivers...since it only happens with non local playback?