Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Alu MacBook youtube stuttering?

T

Trexznl

macrumors member
Original poster
Jan 14, 2009
98
0
The Netherlands
Hello guys (and gals ;)),

I've got my MacBook for.. what.. like two-three months now, it's the late '08 unibody alu model. And when trying to watch a youtube video in fullscreen mode, the video will stutter really, and I mean really, bad. The video is just unviewable because it will have a frame rate like 2-5-ish FPS. I think it's done this for as long as I've got it, but I haven't really bothered with it. And now I want to view some more youtube videos in fullscreen, and I'm really annoyed with it. Is this just the 9400M being not good enough to play a low-res youtube video on my small 13.3" screen? :(

Also, my parents iMac (newest, early '09, with 9400M) has got the same problem, however I took that one for granted because of the enormous screen.

Anyone got suggestions? I'm really bummed out.. they aren't that cheap and I reckon you should at least be able to watch a fullscreen youtube video with it :eek:
 
I've learned that the lower end macs have horrible performance when it comes to flash apps. Youtube, I think, is one of them. I haven't tried watching a video in fullscreen mode with my macbook, but I'll check it out later and report my findings. As bad as it is with flash, I don't think it's supposed to be as slow as what you're reporting. Something might be wrong.
 
Full screen HD youtube vid on my 2.0ghz unimacbook is perfect yours is messed up or you have a chitty internet connection.
 
Yeah, I sometimes have similar problems with my 2.0 GHz white macbook, but only on OS X, never in Windows. It's because of the bad flash plugin that's known to cause unreasonably high CPU loads. It sometimes helps if you close other intensive apps when playing your videos.
 
I'm running YouTube HD, even at fullscreen with no issues. I have a 2.4Ghz though. I'm assuming then that your internet connection is sub par, or you're consuming your processor and RAM with other applications. My internet connection is 17MB/s.

Could you take this test and report back?
 
jjahshik32 said:
How much RAM you got in there?
Click to expand...
4GB.. Had 2 GB in it before, also had the same problem, no change there.

Full screen HD youtube vid on my 2.0ghz unimacbook is perfect yours is messed up or you have a chitty internet connection.
Click to expand...
Nope, no 'chitty' internet connection here, more than decent enough for watching YouTube.

I'm running YouTube HD, even at fullscreen with no issues. I have a 2.4Ghz though. I'm assuming then that your internet connection is sub par, or you're consuming your processor and RAM with other applications. My internet connection is 17MB/s.

Could you take this test and report back?
Click to expand...
As far as I know my internet connection is OK. I took the test (actually do it on a regular basis) and I'm getting 8.53 MB/s.

The thing is, I'm mainly running Opera, which is part of the problem I guess. When viewing a vid in Safari, everything non hardcore HD is quite OK and 'true' HD vids are playable (not the best, but not bad alltogether).
I'm a bit ashamed I actually didn't try Safari, but I've only used it a couple of times before, and I totally dislike it. The first time I ever used it on this MacBook it already crashed within like a minute. I've been running Opera since I've got my Macbook. Viewing videos in Opera seems to be impossible :confused: So it's actually not the MacBook (my bad) and it's not my internet connection.. it's my favorite browser. (Oh Noes).

Anyone here running youtube vids in Opera without any problems? :rolleyes:
 
EDIT: Just tried Opera and received a tidbit more amount of stuttering when in fullscreen in comparison to Safari 4. But it wasn't unwatchable by any means. Have you tried Firefox? I just tested in in fullscreen HD and didn't receive any stuttering. I'd use FireFox for everything if it had the three finger swipe.:rolleyes:

Oh, seems I posted rather than edited. Sorry.
 
pellets007 said:
EDIT: Just tried Opera and received a tidbit more amount of stuttering when in fullscreen in comparison to Safari 4. But it wasn't unwatchable by any means. Have you tried Firefox? I just tested in in fullscreen HD and didn't receive any stuttering. I'd use FireFox for everything if it had the three finger swipe.:rolleyes:

Oh, seems I posted rather than edited. Sorry.
Click to expand...

firefox beta does have three finger swipe. Works great.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back