I’ve tried so hard to try resolve this is issue myself, but for some reason I just can’t do it. I have a nVidia Ge-Force 9500M GS GFX Card, perfectly capable of playing 1080p HD videos, and it’s fine when watching movies in VLC, or offline altogether. However, whenever I go online, I can’t watch any videos. There is so much frame lag, that they are just unwatchable. Honestly I have no clue what’s causing this issue. From what I can tell, it has to be something to do with Chrome/Firefox/Flash or something.
I’m not sure what outputs are needed here, so I’ll just list the ones I’ve done so far.
We may have too sort something out first… Just add “sudo” ?
bally@bally-laptop:~/.mozilla/plugins$ wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11876059/flashplayer11-64bit.tar.gz
--2011-10-10 14:20:00-- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11876059/flashplayer11-64bit.tar.gz
Resolving dl.dropbox.com... 50.16.237.97
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com|50.16.237.97|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6729442 (6.4M) [application/x-tar]
flashplayer11-64bit.tar.gz: Permission denied
Cannot write to `flashplayer11-64bit.tar.gz' (Permission denied).
bally@bally-laptop:~/.mozilla/plugins$ tar -zxvf flashplayer11-32bit.tar.gz
tar (child): flashplayer11-32bit.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bally@bally-laptop:~/.mozilla/plugins$ tar -zxvf flashplayer11-32bit.tar.gz
tar (child): flashplayer11-32bit.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
bally@bally-laptop:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -l ~/.mozilla
total 16
drwx------ 2 bally bally 4096 2011-09-11 06:34 extensions
drwx------ 4 bally bally 4096 2011-09-11 06:34 firefox
-rw-r--r-- 1 bally bally 3 2011-09-11 06:43 firefox.last-version
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-22 23:18 plugins
ls -l ~/.mozilla/plugins
bally@bally-laptop:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -l ~/.mozilla/plugins
total 18420
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 18859016 2011-08-31 10:10 libflashplayer.so
Yeah was working fine, when I was using 32-bit Natty, mind you that was Flash 10, could it possibly be that because Flash 11 has only just started supporting x64 architecture that there are still some bugs to squash?
Could be the possibility that I’ve got about 2Gb of space left? Remember I split the drive into 2 partitions, where “/” was mounted on one and “/home” was mounted on the other, to avoid file system corruption, or at least a less likely chance. :-\
Well I’m currently movie 38+ GB of movies onto a spare partition just now, might move some other things on there as well. See if it makes any difference, probably not.
Make it executable with - chmod +x /path/to/filename.run
to run it - cd /path/to/directory/that/contains/the/file
then ./filename.run or if it needs root permission sudo ./filename.run
Obviously you need to change the paths and the filename
so if the file was called nvidia.run and was in your Downloads directory.
chmod +x ~/Downloads/nvidia.run
cd ~/Downloads
sudo ./nvidia.run
It may be a good idea to remove the nvidia drivers Ubuntu installed for you first.
Worth trying a different (older) version of flashplayer ??
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From what I gather flash 11 has hardware acceleration built in, maybe it’s getting the settings for your GPU wrong… here’s an idea, maybe it needs the VDPAU libraries installing:
sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 vdpau-va-driver
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Have you tried booting from a 64bit LiveUSB (with persistence), updating, then trying youtube ? … to check if it’s something to do with your setup.
Talking of flashplayer now having hardware acceleration … there’s an easy way to disable it in the flashplayer settings, to see if that’s causing the problem.
I free’d up somewhere around 40ish GB of space.