Whenever I try to watch any streaming video such as BBC iPlayer or YouTube things aren't right. After a few minutes the video will start to pause and jump in short bursts, the sound is fine. I'm guessing that my machine cannot cope (or at least the video card can't), when this happens the processor fan will have wound up to flat-out.
The laptop in question is a Sony Vaio with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 and 1Gb of RAM, more than enough for video. I know the internet connection isn't to blame as my wifes 1.7GHz Toshiba (connected via the same wireless access point) manages the video no problem. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 with Gnome 2.2 and using Firefox 2.0.0.11 to watch the video. Running 'top' shows FF is using around 7% CPU when the video is paused and more like 85% when the video is playing. Anybody have any ideas where to start looking? Andy Jenkins. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
