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Q: Video playback at a crawl

Lately it seems that video playback from anything on the Web seems to have slowed to a crawl. Even small-sized, lo-fi stuff like Apple movie trailers seem to be affected. Sound comes through just fine, but images lag by seconds to minutes. CDs and DVDs are unaffected

I haven't changed any software that I know of, and I have good virus-protection stuff installed, so I don't think it's that. I am using an AirPort connection, but that's not new either.

With older browsers, I used to be able to allocate a larger RAM-cache buffer for video, but I don't know if Firefox will let me do that, or if that's even the problem.

Any suggestions as where to begin?

PowerBook G3 (Pismo), Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Nov 9, 2008 11:41 PM

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  • by jpl,

    jpl jpl Nov 10, 2008 2:33 PM in response to d copeland
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    Nov 10, 2008 2:33 PM in response to d copeland
    d copeland,

    I don't have a specific solution, but here are a few suggestions and comments.

    1. How much free HD space do you have? Peform a 'Get Info' on the HD icon for this info.

    2. If you have not done so, restart and test.

    3. Download 'Yasu' v1.0.3 for OSX 10.3, install, then run ONLY these two cleaning actions:

    -Run daily, weekly, and monthly cron scripts.
    -Clear system, local, and User caches.

    http://jimmitchelldesign.com/projects/yasu/

    After a restart, test.

    Message was edited by: jpl