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cpu up to the job?

  • 26-02-2010 04:17PM
    #1
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭


    Hi all
    I have an old dell laptop (latitude d600) running ubuntu 9.1

    1.2mb ram
    cpu is pentium m 1.4

    Should this system be capable of showing youtube videos?

    what happens is it starts fine but about 4 or 5 seconds into it the video stops.

    is it the cpu thats ausing the prob o something else?
    thanks
    J
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Comments

  • #2
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Probably your internet connection speed. Try pausing the video, wait for it to download completely, then play.


  • #3
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭John mac


    tinternet is fine,

    i usually wait until the vid has downloaded anyway. so thats not it.


  • #4
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭John mac


    betafrog wrote: »
    Well having only 1.2mb of ram isn't gonna help :-p

    The problem lies in the very very poor support for flash videos in Linux (ubuntu). Have you tried using the HTML5 version of YouTube?


    i only upped it fron 512 yesterday:)

    nope,

    just downloading chrome as it dosn't support firefox! then will give it a go.

    the stopping happens when streaming stuff from my pc as well. using vlc


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