Choppy Youtube

[technomancer]

To technomancer,

I think you are correct.  I don't think you log into Minitube.  Furthermore, if someone sends you an email of a YouTube link, when you click on it, by default it will want to open using your default browser.  That is why I suggest having Minitube as a backup.  I really do try to get YouTube to perform well within a browser, in full screen, on at least 720p HD first.  But I keep Minitube as an arrow in the quiver.

Most of the time Firefox is just fine for the computers I've helped people with.  Then for others, Firefox is fine until you want to go full screen.  Then it's choppy.  If changing video graphics drivers doesn't help, I try other browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium using the pepperflash plugin.  If I'm out of luck on that, Minitube is an option. 

For my own laptop, Chromium handles full screen YouTube viewing great.  But for my older desktop, even with the correct NVIDIA driver selected, I find that Google Chrome is the only browser to allow me full screen, jitter free, video viewing.

In the meantime, we can continue to support the projects we use in the hopes that graphics drivers for Linux/Ubuntu will continue to get attention and that HTML5 will free us from choppy YouTube.com video viewing.

Thanks for the clarification torreydale. I like the Minitube interface, I'm going to support that project.
-I have Flash issues in Firefox but not in Google Chrome, but choppy full screen on every system I own no matter the browser (LL, Debian, Windowz) using intel, nvidia and ati video cards. So across the board issues. The Adobe Flash issues are a hot topic right now all over the web. As you said, supporting HTML5 projects will free us of these current issues.