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  Date: Feb 05    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 294
  

Firstly, I love linux and cant imagine myself returning to windows for
daily use. However, one thing which has baffled me since I downloaded
ubuntu 10.04 is the crash of videos everywhere e.g. bbc, bbc iplayer,
eurosports, TED etc. The videos play for couple of minutes (if I am
lucky) and then it starts buffering, and it never proceeds. And i have
to reload the page.



This happened on ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 10.10 and now gentoo. I am not the
first one to experience this problem. The following is the link
summarising similar experience.



http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1249170



By the way, videos work great on windows XP. Some say that its because
of flash. However, I dont understand that when I had 9.04, it worked ok.



I really would like to solve this problem or at least know the root cause of
this. Surely, its not a bug?



Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.



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2 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Feb 05    

i dont have any problem with bbc i player on ubuntu 10.04.

maybe your internet connection is slow,
or your computer cant cope witrh all that data
(especially full screen)

does it work if you click [download]
and only play them when theyre on your computer?

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Feb 05    

I agree with you. That's the horrible part of this problem. My friend's laptop
is completely fine.

I doubt its the internet connection. I ran speed tests and it shows brilliant
speeds. Live streaming on BBC works ok. I never managed to download iplayer on
my pc. It always gave errors and never tried to figure out (my bad).

Full screen or no full screen does not make a whole lot difference.

If my computer cant cope with data, then how XP is not affected?

Are there any log files created so at least I can understand whether its the
hardware problem (which i seriously doubt) or the software?

 
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