On-website videos in Ubuntu 8.10

Hey fellow AAO users,

I have my AAO (512MB, 8GBSSD) loaded with Ubuntu 8.10. Everything works fine, but the flash videos such as streaming of the Daily Show.com or Youtube or FunnyorDie.com are stuttering and are not watchable.

Could someone please tell me how to fix this? If a fix exists

As usual, I haven't found a decent piece of information on that so if it already exists, please put up a link !!!

Cheers fellas,

Arthur

 

I had the same touble with some videosites and I tried this (it worked for me I think) :

Although the WiFi works out of the box with the kuki kernel there have been reports the ath5k driver does not like heavy traffic. Because of this sickboy (creator of the kuki kernel) has released a package to install the madwifi drivers which do not suffer from the same problems as ath5k.

Download and install the madwifi package.
http://kernelmirror.linxisp.com/releases/

Blacklist Ath5k to prevent conflict.

Code:

 echo "ath5k" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

 

I have tested the madwifi driver of sickboy. Now it is like old slowmotion movie those onlien movies. Some movies look like old Chaplinmovies.

 

The speed of the WIFI connection shouldnt be the issue. You might have realized that if the connection is to slow it stops playback until the buffer is loaded completely. If you look at the progress bar you see how much of the video is allready preloaded. The slow motion / stottering of the video also exists if the video is completely preloaded.
It must have to do with the Flash Performance within Firefox. There might be some tuning options.
Has anybody tried
a) an alternative flash plugin (gnash)
b) tweaking firefox to increase performance with flash videos
c) alternative browsers
?

 

Update: I installed Opera and the Website Videos run much smoother than with Firefox

 

It's not better for me with Opera. It are litterly shocking movies :?

 

Most of the standard flash plugins which are available with ubuntu don't run flash videos well. The easiest solution is just to install the Adobe flash plugin and it should all work like a charm.

Code:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

n.b. 'nonfree' doesn't mean you have to pay, it mean's not open source.