HorizonForumsone horizon
Log inSign up

[ms] · Est. May 2002

Music madethis place,we just kept itgoing...

One durable person. One social graph. Many communities—and every way people speak, share, listen, write, gather and remember.

Forums / Computers / Electronics / Games

choppy video/sound on my mac

22 durable postsStarted 2007-07-14Latest 2007-07-26
#44065Post 1 of 22

i'm trying to do some of the bbc's language lessons but the video and audio is so chopped up i can't follow it. i tried opera, firefox and safari and they all have the same problem...updated the flash player too. i often have this problem with youtube and other sites with videos. i don't think it's a streaming problem because the videos play back weird even after they've loaded completely. any idears? this is really pissing me off

#889896Post 2 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

create a temporary user account and see if the issue persists there...

#889923Post 3 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Might be conflicting with other software (Google Desktop?)

#890133Post 4 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

same thing happens on another account. i don't think i've got any software that would mess it up - this computer is pretty much just music, internet and word

#890136Post 5 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

I'm gonna out go on a limb and make a suggestion just to get under your skin .... Get a PC ? :p

#890142Post 6 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

i'm gonna going out on a limb and punch you in the face

i'm wondering if it's cause my computer is very outdated and stuck in 10.3.9

#890154Post 7 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

:Who:

#890482Post 8 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Are you wireless? Try hooking up using ethernet and see if there is a difference...

Um Um Um Um Um, weird problem.

#893912Post 9 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Have you tried the Hokey Pokey?

#894036Post 10 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

i don't have an airport card and the hokey pokey doesn't work :( i'm pretty sure it's a computer issue and not a network thing

#894047Post 11 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Maybe if you squeeze your lemons really, really tight then maybe... just maybe... the problem will go away.

#894139Post 12 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

You should not be having this problem.

Have you looked at your system resources while watching these clips (from the application folder, go to utilities and run activity monitor) ? are you out of memory, do you have anything downloading, any updates running? etc.

You can also install istat pro as a widget and it is a great resource to see what the hell your mac is doing.

let me know. Actually what are you currently spec'd out at?

#894166Post 13 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Look at Dom go :)

#894174Post 14 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

this apple world is a wonderful world i tell you. never going back to umpfs, ughs, blangs, chinga, changa, whamps, famps, and flaps. ;)

I love to hear my MBP fans fire up when the machine is dosing high computing power, other wise the machine is deadly silent.

#894186Post 15 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Yay Flaps!

#894191Post 16 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

firefox uses like 80-90% of my memory when i watch a video. even after it's loaded and everything else is closed up. what the fuck it's a 5 year old machine, so i've only got 700 mhz G3 and 384 MB ram

#894283Post 17 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Oh, well then thats your fucking problem. You've had the same computer since you were a teenager.

When is the last time you have wiped your system and started fresh?

I think you need to start sucking dick for cash to get a new computer.

Well, at least get a new computer.

#894300Post 18 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

i had to erase the whole hard drive at some point this past spring. i refuse to believe that my computer, even though it's a piece of shit, isn't powerful enough to play a video properly. sometimes videos play fine as long as the mouse button is held down.:D

#894302Post 19 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

You are avoiding the dick sucking*

*I may or may not be hammered

#894308Post 20 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Yep. Move to new york and start sucking the cock. Plenty of faggots on the east.

#894324Post 21 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

Nevermind. I noticed G3. If ff is using 80%+ well time to buy a new machine. ;):(:p:shock::lol::x:roll::|:idea:

#895906Post 22 of 22

Re: choppy video/sound on my mac

I'd recommend switching to Camino/Safari as the memory footprint may be lower, which may increase the performance of streaming video. Also, you may want to consider expanding your RAM... 384 is relatively low considering Panther uses 128 mb of it. The less available RAM the OS has, it begins to use the hard disk for virtual memory, which can also lead to choppy video playback.

Log in to reply