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freezing video playback

Post by gizmo-au »

I have a new install of mint 18 XFCE.
It is on an old Acer laptop - a Aspire 3623WXCI.
It has 2 Gb of ram fitted. Celeron M processor.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
It all works fine except that youtube videos tend to freeze after a few seconds. The audio continues. Some videos play longer before freezing, and some don't freeze.
It plays DVDs with no problem.

I wonder if trying some other boot options would help, eg: nomodeset? how can I try different boot settings on an existing installation? (already installed to Hard Drive.)
Any other suggestions?

thanks.
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MrEen
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Re: freezing video playback

Post by MrEen »

I'd first check Driver Manager and see if there are graphics drivers recommended there.

Otherwise, paste back the results of inxi -Fxz and maybe we can find something else.
gizmo-au

Re: freezing video playback

Post by gizmo-au »

Thanks for your reply.
the only thing driver manager offered was an intel microcode update which I accepted, but it made no difference.



Host: chris-Aspire-3620 Kernel: 4.13.0-41-generic i686 (32 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: Acer (portable) product: Aspire 3620 v: 0100
Mobo: Acer model: Garda-910 v: Rev
Bios: Phoenix v: V1.01 date: 12/15/2005
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (nx pae sse sse2) bmips: 2992 speed: 1496 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x800@59.97hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 1c00 18c0 bus-ID: 00:1e.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-41-generic
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR2413/AR2414 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5005G(S) 802.11bg]
driver: ath5k bus-ID: 06:05.0
IF: wlp6s5 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: 3000 bus-ID: 06:07.0
IF: enp6s7 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (22.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9402112A size: 40.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 35G used: 6.4G (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.14GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0C mobo: 30.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 143 Uptime: 14 min Memory: 610.7/2003.3MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
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Re: freezing video playback

Post by trytip »

lower the quality of the videos to 360. it also may be your internet speed too slow or you have some addons interfeering
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