Netbooks and HD youtube videos. Choppy playback?

z0mbi3 · 28 Jan 2009 at 16:20

Still considering getting a netbook, but I've been reading that they're pretty poor at playing back these HD/HQ youtube videos. Apparently the problem mainly lies with the flash player being quite inefficient in terms of system resources, and that if you download the FLVs they'll playback quite happily in VLC.

So my question is that if you were using Ubuntu on a netbook, could you not just set vlc to be the default media player for FLVs under Firefox and get the videos to load that way?

I'm not an HD nut or anything, I'd just like to think that if I bought a netbook that it wouldn't struggle with web content.

So anyone got any thoughts on this?

MichaelM · 28 Jan 2009 at 19:29

Stock NC10 was definitely choppy with HD youtube videos, if I remember right high quality was a bit borderline as well.

ShaolinDreams · 29 Jan 2009 at 11:56

high quality is fine here but definitely "youtube" HD is choppy..annoying to say the least cos the picture quality on a 10" netbook looks really sharp.

Clown · 29 Jan 2009 at 12:14

Youtube HD is choppy, but 720p .mkv over wireless runs fine! Don't know why.

dayloon · 29 Jan 2009 at 15:00

hmm, this isn't good. I was considering buying a NC10 netbook but if they're not even powerful enough to play hd youtube videos then i may reconsider.

"andy" · 29 Jan 2009 at 16:14

youtube hd is choppy on my 1.66 coreduo

Jamesdavid3 · 29 Jan 2009 at 16:40

youtube HD is fine on Samsung NC10, if its ever choppy, you need to turn the processing power up to the max

z0mbi3 · 29 Jan 2009 at 18:07

Jamesdavid3 said:
youtube HD is fine on Samsung NC10, if its ever choppy, you need to turn the processing power up to the max

Can anyone else confirm this?

tres · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:11

link? i'll have a go

james.miller · 29 Jan 2009 at 19:21

its nothing to do with the cpu im sure, its choppy on my viao too and ive got a p8400 c2d.

Memphis · 29 Jan 2009 at 21:17

Jamesdavid3 said:
youtube HD is fine on Samsung NC10, if its ever choppy, you need to turn the processing power up to the max

Poppycock

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It's the integrated Intel graphics chipset that is the problem for HD content. That and the appauling Flash HD video codec.

You CAN get 720p video to play perfectly well on the NC10 but you need to use CoreAVC and a lightweight player such as Media Player Classic HC.

james.miller · 29 Jan 2009 at 21:28

helloooo its choppy on my fw11s!!!

z0mbi3 · 29 Jan 2009 at 22:15

Memphis said:
That and the appalling Flash HD video codec.

This is what I was getting at in the OP. If you download the FLVs and stick them in VLC then they'll play fine.

I find it hard to believe people are finding that they play fine in the browser. I'm just not sure if you can use VLC instead of the flash player but still have it integrated in the browser nicely.

Clown · 30 Jan 2009 at 08:18

z0mbi3 said:
I find it hard to believe people are finding that they play fine in the browser.

Not people. More like one person who doesn't know what he's looking at.

ShaolinDreams · 30 Jan 2009 at 11:18

Memphis said:
Poppycock .

It's the integrated Intel graphics chipset that is the problem for HD content. That and the appauling Flash HD video codec.

You CAN get 720p video to play perfectly well on the NC10 but you need to use CoreAVC and a lightweight player such as Media Player Classic HC.

+1

LewisStuart · 30 Jan 2009 at 22:18

Choppy , makes 3dgameman look even more robotic