MacBook Air :: Stutter On YouTube Video Every Few Seconds
Jan 18, 2009
After nph brought up his concerns about HD content on the Airs I went to the Apple Store to check it out for myself. I tried watching HD youtube videos on the highest end Air (rev B 1.8 ghz / 128 ssd) and on the lowest end Macbook and Pro. I let the videos fully load before watching them to eliminate variances in network lag. Please do the same if you wish to verify the results.
The MBA stuttered every few seconds throughout the video. The MB and MBP unibody machines were able to play the video without stutter. CPU use on the MBA fluctuated between about 130 - 170% while it was about 130 - 140% on the MB and MBP according to activity monitor. What are your results with rev A and rev B MBA machines on the following short HD video? Does it stutter for you or are you able to watch the full video without any stutter? What changes have you made compared to the stock install from the store? [URL]
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May 2, 2010
At first for the first 30 minutes all ok, then after a while the my whole computer and the audio jumps, safari is using 120% and finally the audio starts crackles and this includes all sound even itunes, the only way to stop it is to put my laptop to sleep .
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Oct 20, 2010
I see they are using the same CPU and GPU, so I'll assume they are going to stutter watching video like the other MBA's do. I'd be curious what someone more technically inclined has to say after looking at the specs and hardware, or if the flash memory hard drive might help with that.
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Dec 13, 2009
I have a 2008 15" 2.4GHz unibody macbook pro with the Nvidia 9400 & 9600 GPU's. It works great, but i notice when playing 720p HD video in Quicktime X, the video is often kind of stuttery at first when i skip through the video, and sometimes beachballs. I am disappointed, because i often like to skip to certain parts in videos (especially TV Shows/Movies). It doesn't do this with smaller videos.
I only have 2GB of RAM. Do you think upgrading the RAM to atleast 4GB would help with this problem? I am on the 9600 with the "Higher Performance" option. Do you notice this at all?
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Apr 24, 2012
I can't watch YouTube videos without it stopping after 30 seconds or so. It seems to buffer and stall.
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iMac
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May 25, 2010
Well I got rid of the quicksilvers since they died. Power supplys gave out and took the motherboards, So I sold what was left on EBAY.
My G4 Ethernet was sold to a co-worked and he is quite happy.
And I got this off ebay today:
Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5Procs
2GB RAM (2 x 1GB PC3200U DDR SDRAM)
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D
Samsung HD160JJ/P 160GB SATA HDD (not apple labeled, not original to this system)
(1) Power Cord
pci106b,9 PCI Ethernet Controller
Well I didnt' read the fine print and BAZINGA! I noticed that it comes without a video card.
So For video editing, watching hulu and youtube and netflix What do you guys recommend.
I do have a PCI GEforce at home with 512 megs for PC and I was wondering if I could flash it and if so, does anyone know of a good walkthrough?
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May 8, 2009
i have a powermac g4 sawtooth. it stutters on youtube videos and other videos so i was wandering whats a decent video card thats compatible with it?
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Jan 16, 2010
It must be some ad blocker or something, but I can't view videos. I can't seem to find what's causing it. I can go to YouTube and watch a video, but when someone posts a link, I am unable to make it play. I'll get a site with a black rectangle where the video is supposed to be. Happens on links from tweets too. Safari and Firefox both. I tried the Flash uninstall/reinstall/disc permission/restart routine twice.
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Dec 3, 2008
How come when I play online games like world of warcraft on my mac air the videos look just plain awesome but when I try to see a youtube video it looks soo bad its depressing??
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Mar 1, 2012
I've a macbook pro since 3 days but I can't read video on YouTube. The following message appears to the screen "your browser reknows at present none of the sizes available video." I try to install firefox but it's not good.
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MacBook
Pro
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Mar 29, 2012
Always this msg come to me when i played any video in youtube, no thing wrong with video because i can play the same video in my Ipad.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 20, 2012
When i go to Youtube.com and type in a song in the adress bar .I click the video and the page loads.Then i wait and nothing happens the area that the image of the video is suppose to be streaming or playing isn't. It just stays all Black.
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Apr 29, 2012
I want to take a YouTube video and put it on iDVD but I dont know how.
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Jun 6, 2012
I am using Chrome as my internet browser and when I go to YouTube it does not show the video. I can hear the audio but the box where the video should be is just a blank screen of grey.
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May 17, 2009
All I have open is firefox with one or two tab and the CPU gets into the high 70 Celsius before the fan kicks in. Is it normal for the CPU to get that hot? Or is it even safe? It says I am using up to 70% of CPU at times!!!Is HD flash that taxing?
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Jul 7, 2010
I just hooked up my Giffin HDMI output cable, and the audio/video work perfectly....except when i go to play a youtube video.
The sound works, but the video screen stays black, on both the computer and TV.
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Jun 4, 2012
My late '11 MBA (11") pause frequently when trying to run youtube videos along with the "spinning" icon. If I immediately reboot, videos run smoothly.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), -iPad2 32G-IP 4 S 32G-Nano 16G-IP3G
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Sep 8, 2010
my MacBook runs like ****. It's constantly hot (CPU is always above 70*C), it can't get through one youtube video with out stuttering and overheating, it can't run my external sound card (Audio 4 DJ) in conjunction with anything else, and it can't play AVI files without freezing and bugging out. It's a 2nd gen Black MacBook with 2ghz processors, 2 gb of ram, and an upgraded WD 320 GB HD. Is this thing about to take a dump on me? Is the motherboard on its way out? Is there any chance of fixing this thing? It seems the only thing my computer is good for theses days is doing light browsing on the internet. (read light browsing = no flash and no html5.)
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May 12, 2010
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Mar 27, 2012
Recently I've noticed that my macbook pro is having a very hard time on youtube. The video player goes black but the audio continues. It freezes my computer. The video will sometimes play if I stop and reload the page multiple times in succession. I have a mid 2009 macbook pro running OSX lion 10.7.3
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Jul 4, 2012
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Feb 12, 2009
Sometimes when I'm streaming flash videos (youtube and other sites) the video pauses, even though it has loaded the rest of the video. It usually locks up Firefox for about 20 seconds and then continues playing the rest of the video. What could this be? I am running the latest version of flash as well. Maybe I don't have enough cache allotted to handle it in Firefox?
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Just came across this very creative and funny youtube video you can also download and assemble your own "Macbook Paper".
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