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Geek Culture / 'Stuttering' YouTube

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Nickydude
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 01:44
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When watching any video on YouTube it keeps pausing briefly every few seconds. Is this happening to anyone else?

Using latest Firefox

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TheComet
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 01:57 Edited at: 30th Dec 2012 02:50
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Yes. I get it when the hard drive is doing heavy duty stuff, and it only happens with firefox.

You know what else I get? At random times an advertisement will start playing REALLY LOUDLY, and then my mouse just disappears. This only happens when a youtube tab is open, but I don't necessarily have to be in the tab for it to occur.

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Dark Frager
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 12:16
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Try clearing the cache on your browser.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 20:16
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slow connection possibly?

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Nickydude
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 23:10
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@Dark Frager: Tried clearing the cache, still the same.

@Phaelax: I have hard-wired 30mb connection and it's only starting happening a few weeks ago.

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ionstream
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Posted: 30th Dec 2012 23:32
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Do you happen to know if its the HTML5 player that's doing that or the Flash Player, or both? The Flash player lags on me if I have multiple tabs open with a lot of flash objects in each one. I don't know about the HTML5 player but perhaps its implementation in Firefox makes it act similarly.

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Dark Frager
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Posted: 31st Dec 2012 18:41
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Maybe try on a different browser and see if it's the same.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 31st Dec 2012 18:46
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Quote: "@Phaelax: I have hard-wired 30mb connection and it's only starting happening a few weeks ago.
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I've had a 20Mb connection before, doesn't mean you're immune to lag. A junction box could've went bad or something, causing random packet loss. It's always a possibility. Have you had issues with anything else other than youtube?

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Nickydude
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Posted: 6th Jan 2013 15:44
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This only happens in (the latest) FireFox browser, I get no stutter at all in Chrome.

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 6th Jan 2013 17:29
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I strongly agree with Nickydude; and believe it is an issue between FF and a Flash update a number of months ago; this now happens to me on my line but never ever used to. It also stutters when you scroll down or click on a web control.

A temporary fix is to make sure the video quality setting is 360 or below. I think you will find anything 480 or above will stutter more.

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Nickydude
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Posted: 6th Jan 2013 19:53
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I've switched to Chrome, but I'm missing an extension to download flash/youtube videos.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 6th Jan 2013 23:49 Edited at: 7th Jan 2013 03:04
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Here's a link to what I use. Beware the adware addons during installation tho. Cnet has really gotten desperate

http://youtubedownloader.com/

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Quote: "Beware the aware addons during installation tho"
Talk about desperate! There were probably 10 things it tried to change or install! Neat software, however.

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Nickydude
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Posted: 7th Jan 2013 08:27
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Thanks for the link.

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