[rbass]

I am computer e literate so I can really use some help, all my video play backs stop and go never play through always have to wait for them to download very aggravating. please help thank you.

[LiveBrianD]

What kinds of videos? Youtube (or other online website) videos? It's probably that your internet connection is too slow, thus causing the video to need to buffer before playing. Do you know what type of connection you have (Dial-up, DSL, Cable, etc) and what speed (ex. 56kbps, 1.5mbps, etc)?

[rbass]

LiveBrianD, on 05 April 2012 - 12:41 PM, said:

What kinds of videos? Youtube (or other online website) videos? It's probably that your internet connection is too slow, thus causing the video to need to buffer before playing. Do you know what type of connection you have (Dial-up, DSL, Cable, etc) and what speed (ex. 56kbps, 1.5mbps, etc)?

any and all video, DSL, mid range on speed, my desk top has no problem running video and it is about two years older and not as much memory as the computer in question. any ideas?

[LiveBrianD]

So you mean online video, DVDs, video files saved to the hard drive, etc? What model of computer is this?

[rbass]

LiveBrianD, on 05 April 2012 - 01:22 PM, said:

So you mean online video, DVDs, video files saved to the hard drive, etc? What model of computer is this?

HP G60-243CL Notebook. DVDs play fine.

[LiveBrianD]

Does this happen in all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer...)? Are you on the latest version of adobe flash?
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

[rbass]

LiveBrianD, on 05 April 2012 - 02:10 PM, said:

Does this happen in all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer...)? Are you on the latest version of adobe flash?
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Yes and yes

[LiveBrianD]

What OS are you running? (click Start, Computer, Properties) Near the top, it'll say 'Windows Vista' or 'Windows 7'. A bit further down, it might say "System Type: 64-bit". If it doesn't, it's 32-bit. Then, go here http://www.geforce.com/Drivers, go to the manual driver search, and put in your OS and whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit, and geforce 8M series, 8200M. Download and install the update from there.

[coastie65]

Hi. What you are describing is buffering. It could be due to the connection speed also, using a dedicated Video card with it's own memory is helpful.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 05 April 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

Hi. What you are describing is buffering. It could be due to the connection speed also, using a dedicated Video card with it's own memory is helpful.

He said it doesn't occur on his desktop though.

Note: I have noticed an odd bug where when I try to stream certain 1080p youtube videos with FF I don't have much bandwidth used, and the video buffers very slowly, yet chrome uses more bandwidth and buffers it much faster, like it should. Perhaps there's something like that at play here?

Also, he has a laptop (HP G60-243CL), and it has an nvidia 8200M video card. I doubt the GPU itself lacks the power needed for this (the drivers might have something doing though).

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 05 April 2012 - 05:12 PM

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 05 April 2012 - 05:09 PM, said:

coastie65, on 05 April 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

Hi. What you are describing is buffering. It could be due to the connection speed also, using a dedicated Video card with it's own memory is helpful.

He said it doesn't occur on his desktop though.

Note: I have noticed an odd bug where when I try to stream certain 1080p youtube videos with FF I don't have much bandwidth used, and the video buffers very slowly, yet chrome uses more bandwidth and buffers it much faster, like it should. Perhaps there's something like that at play here?

Also, he has a laptop (HP G60-243CL), and it has an nvidia 8200M video card. I doubt the GPU itself lacks the power needed for this (the drivers might have something doing though).

Hey Brian, You would more likely get buffering with the laptop due to the resources available on those things. You generally have better resources with a desktop as a rule, unless you get a high end Laptop. As for YouTube, I think that is a YouTube thing, or the person who uploaded it, as I sometimes have buffering issues over there and I have pretty decent desktops. The wider the bandwidth, the lesser the buffering. I had one eMachines that I had added an Nvidia FX5500 256 Mb PCI card ( all the slot choice I had with that thing ) and it was terrible when it came to that stuff to the point I gave up trying to stream video. I got another eMachines with PCIe and DDR2 memory and it did fine as I added first the 7600GS card, then 8600GT, and finally the 9800Gt cards. With 1080p, you do need some bandwidth to properly stream those things. Don't know why FF is strangling the Bandwidth. ISP maybe? If the Laptop is DDR3, then it should perhaps have the bandwidth, but if it is DDR2, then maybe not, as it is narrower and that also applies to the graphics. That is why I want to change out the MOBO in here to the Gen 3 version as it is PCIe 3.0 which is a wider bandwidth than the 2.0 and can move more stuff through the pipe as it were.

[LiveBrianD]

His laptop is powerful enough for that; as I said it has an nvidia 8200M. I still think that updating the drivers would be a good first start here.

[david2001]

tnanks for the info,is useful

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 06 April 2012 - 10:31 AM, said:

His laptop is powerful enough for that; as I said it has an nvidia 8200M. I still think that updating the drivers would be a good first start here.

The laptop came with 3 Gb of RAM, it is shared with the GPU. It also is running VISTA Home Premium w/SP 1 and has a Turion Dual core processor. That is a lot of resources being used. If Vista has been upgraded to SP2, that would be an improvement. I am still leaning towards a hardware issue though as I have been through this myself in years gone by ( dial up didn't help either ).

[LiveBrianD]

2 or 3GB RAM should be fine. However, 1GB is a bottleneck. For instance, I upgraded a friend's Vista SP2 Athlon x2 machine from 1GB RAM to 3GB, and the thing sped up dramatically.

Also, I assume he has probably upgraded to SP2 by now.

[mannyg]

When I am loading new pages I see a message at the lower left of the screen that says, " Awaiting Cache". Does this mean that I don't have enough memory?

[LiveBrianD]

mannyg, on 22 April 2012 - 09:13 PM, said:

When I am loading new pages I see a message at the lower left of the screen that says, " Awaiting Cache". Does this mean that I don't have enough memory?

Sometimes that's caused by slow disk access. (for instance, I see it a lot when running chrome portable off a thumb drive)