low fps on youtube

I've just got my media centre back on the net and as it's hooked up to a big tv i'm watching some stuff off youtube.

The picture doesn't seem to flow properly, it's not that the movie hasn't loaded enough, it just won't play smoothly for some reason! It's almost like it's not playing at 24fps, maybe a bit less. The fps doesn't vary, it's just not quite smooth.

The media centre is a Dell Dimension XPS T700r, PIII 700MHz, 384Mb ram and a geforce 2 64Mb, running windows XP home. The browser is firefox 1.5. I have the latest flash player (is that what youtube players etc. use?), the latest ff 1.5 version, all the latest windows updates and the latest nvidia drivers for geforce.

Any help would be great!

 

You tube videos are mostly processor intensive, so if its choppy, its usually the processors fault. Youtube does use some strange form of flash to make its movies work. It takes the raw .FLV files and then runs them through some kind of embedded flash hybrid player.

Have you considered updating to ff 2.0? See if that fixes things.

Some videos there are just a little choppy though. I've experienced some videos like that on several computers. Or is it anything you try to watch?

 

It is everything. Updating to nvidia 93.73 from 93.47 helped a bit. Another browser might work, I'll try installing Opera tomorrow as IE wont load the player properly.

 

Your machine is just a bit too underpowered for that, especially since you have XP Home on just 384MB of RAM. Upgrade the memory, and you might get decent performance, but that's no guarantee.

 

I've run youtube normally on a celery with 256mb of RAM and Windows XP.

 

you could download the video you're watching, but thats kinda redundant xD

 

Some videos lag full screen for me even with a Pentium M Dothan 2.0GHZ, 1GB RAM and ATI FireGL T2 video card. Your computer is simply underpowered and I believe the processor is where the bottleneck is at.

 

Go into windows task manager and set firefox.exe under the processes tab to high priority.
Update all drivers.

Like people said previously, the computer is just too slow.

 

Oh well. I'll see what comes my way in th next few months, maybe i can pick up something cheap/free and a tad faster!