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For Penryn MBP owners: How do you see this video?
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Penryn is the codename for the current Core2Duo CPU (45nm process). They will also be used with the coming Montevina platform though clock speeds will be different. The FSB will be raised from 800 to 1066 MT/s.This is going to sound kind of newbishbut what is a Penryn? i bought my MBP about a week or so ago.
The video plays fine by the way.
In my case, it does not help. When white boxes appear in videos, all the graphics behaviour of the MBP is compromised: image loading, video playback, sometimes even scrolling in Finder windows.
This issue is very well known. Many users (including me) reported similar issues on 10.5.2. With that release it was the 'standard' behaviour.
thistle
I think I know some of us are seeing the white squares and it has nothing to do with the GPU. I was seeing the white squares too, until I got a faster Internet connection. Google must be serving a worst version of the video for those with slower connections, as fleshman03 suggested, and it has the white squares. Can anyone confirm this?
I found the article I was referencing when I made my post. Here it is.
The Quote:
"Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if viewers want it."
Now this is YouTube's tech, so I'd assume that Google has incorporated it into their service as well. The only thing I'm not sure of is if it is allowing the user to choose or if the service does that for you. The article is from November of last year and I believe the tech has been implemented since at least the start of 08.
For some reason or other, this problem has now surfaced on my system. It used to be just fine. =\
I'm going to try rebooting now to see if it helps.
Update: Yeah, rebooting the system solves the problem completely.
I'm going to try rebooting now to see if it helps.
Update: Yeah, rebooting the system solves the problem completely.
It's planning fine on mine at the moment, but I just got it back today after a logic board replacement for this issue...
On my last MBP the white blocks were soon followed by a completely garbled display when resizing windows. I don't know whether the white blocks and corrupted video were related but the white blocks always seemed to precede the scrambled display.