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From: A Watcher on 8 May 2010 12:54 I've watched some old TV episodes on Hulu with both linux Mint and WinXP. They both do fine in the small window. If I select full screen its choppier with linux than with WinXP. With WinXP it is barely watchable, with linux it isn't. I don't have a real fast internet connection. I have a medium speed DSL, I forget the exact rate.
From: Aragorn on 8 May 2010 14:38 On Saturday 08 May 2010 18:54 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying as A Watcher wrote... > I've watched some old TV episodes on Hulu with both linux Mint and > WinXP. They both do fine in the small window. If I select full > screen its choppier with linux than with WinXP. With WinXP it is > barely watchable, with linux it isn't. I don't have a real fast > internet connection. I have a medium speed DSL, I forget the exact > rate. This is probably related to the Linux driver for your videocard. Video streams are typically handled directly by the videocard, and if the driver does not adequately support the full screen resolution on your machine - depending on what resolution exactly this is and what refresh rates are chosen - then watching any videos or TV streaming full screen will result in nasty results. Depending on what videocard you have, you might want to try a later driver, if available, or a different driver if possible. -- *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: A Watcher on 8 May 2010 17:50 Aragorn wrote: > On Saturday 08 May 2010 18:54 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody > identifying as A Watcher wrote... > >> I've watched some old TV episodes on Hulu with both linux Mint and >> WinXP. They both do fine in the small window. If I select full >> screen its choppier with linux than with WinXP. With WinXP it is >> barely watchable, with linux it isn't. I don't have a real fast >> internet connection. I have a medium speed DSL, I forget the exact >> rate. > > This is probably related to the Linux driver for your videocard. Video > streams are typically handled directly by the videocard, and if the > driver does not adequately support the full screen resolution on your > machine - depending on what resolution exactly this is and what refresh > rates are chosen - then watching any videos or TV streaming full screen > will result in nasty results. > > Depending on what videocard you have, you might want to try a later > driver, if available, or a different driver if possible. > Thanks, I'll check into that. Maybe upgrading to the latest Mint version would help.
From: Grant Edwards on 8 May 2010 18:26 On 2010-05-08, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote: > On Saturday 08 May 2010 18:54 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody > identifying as A Watcher wrote... > >> I've watched some old TV episodes on Hulu with both linux Mint and >> WinXP. They both do fine in the small window. If I select full >> screen its choppier with linux than with WinXP. With WinXP it is >> barely watchable, with linux it isn't. I don't have a real fast >> internet connection. I have a medium speed DSL, I forget the exact >> rate. > > This is probably related to the Linux driver for your videocard. Video > streams are typically handled directly by the videocard, Not really. Except in rare cases, the video stream is decoded by a user-space application. Some video drivers provide support for scaling, color-space translations, and some other operations. I'm not aware of any cases where a video stream is handled directly by the video card except for cards like the Hauppage PVR350 which has complete MPEG2 decoding in hardware. The mainstream ATI and nVidia cards certainly don't directly handle video streams. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Eisenhower!! Your at mimeograph machine upsets gmail.com my stomach!!
From: philo on 9 May 2010 11:13
On 05/08/2010 11:54 AM, A Watcher wrote: > I've watched some old TV episodes on Hulu with both linux Mint and > WinXP. They both do fine in the small window. If I select full screen > its choppier with linux than with WinXP. With WinXP it is barely > watchable, with linux it isn't. I don't have a real fast internet > connection. I have a medium speed DSL, I forget the exact rate. I had similar problems with watching videos (No real difference between Windows and Linux) for just $5 a month or so...my ISP was able to upgrade my account to a higher speed DSL now I have no problems...it was worth the modest increase in my rate |