Do Hulu videos play 100% smooth for you guys? (full screen)

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Fox5
I find that the resolution of your monitor makes a big difference with full screen flash video performance. Shouldn't matter for non-full-screen, but flash's video scaling is very video intensive (for still rather poor quality) for some reason.

I find even slower core 2 duo's can't handle hulu at higher resolutions.

3.2GHz C2D + 4870 @ 1360x768 is unwatchably choppy.

 

[LS8]

Using that logic my Opteron 185 shouldn't do well at all then, but it does fine @ 1680x1050 even when I use the "480p" option.

Edit: Here's an idea, are you guys running Hulu in its own window? If you are running it as a tab in a window with a ton of other tabs open maybe that effects things. I always run Hulu in its own IE7 Window (it just runs better in IE7 at least for me) and it's super smooth, no tearing and no slowdown.

 

[boomhower]

works fine for me. P8400/9800M/7Mbps cable

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: LS8
Using that logic my Opteron 185 shouldn't do well at all then, but it does fine @ 1680x1050 even when I use the "480p" option.

Edit: Here's an idea, are you guys running Hulu in its own window? If you are running it as a tab in a window with a ton of other tabs open maybe that effects things. I always run Hulu in its own IE7 Window (it just runs better in IE7 at least for me) and it's super smooth, no tearing and no slowdown.

I've tried it in IE7, IE8, Opera, and FF - same results.

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: LS8
Using that logic my Opteron 185 shouldn't do well at all then, but it does fine @ 1680x1050 even when I use the "480p" option.

Edit: Here's an idea, are you guys running Hulu in its own window? If you are running it as a tab in a window with a ton of other tabs open maybe that effects things. I always run Hulu in its own IE7 Window (it just runs better in IE7 at least for me) and it's super smooth, no tearing and no slowdown.

I've tried it in IE7, IE8, Opera, and FF - same results.

You have a software issue then, maybe drivers. Your machine has more than enough power to play full screen video.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: LS8

Originally posted by: Canai

Originally posted by: LS8
Using that logic my Opteron 185 shouldn't do well at all then, but it does fine @ 1680x1050 even when I use the "480p" option.

Edit: Here's an idea, are you guys running Hulu in its own window? If you are running it as a tab in a window with a ton of other tabs open maybe that effects things. I always run Hulu in its own IE7 Window (it just runs better in IE7 at least for me) and it's super smooth, no tearing and no slowdown.

I've tried it in IE7, IE8, Opera, and FF - same results.

You have a software issue then, maybe drivers. Your machine has more than enough power to play full screen video.

Yeah it's rather aggravating. I'm going to reformat and install XP64 sometime soon, so hopefully that'll help.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: n7
P4 2.6 GHz is not powerful.

In fact, a Pentium M 1.6 GHz is likely comparable or better performance for some things...

a P4 2.6 is PLENTY powerful for flash video playback. Clair, is your Flash the latest version?

 

[Lucky777]

C2D @ 3.2GHz, 3GB 780MHZ DDR2, 7800GTX, 1440x900:
480i - Perfect
480i Full Screen -Perfect
480p - Perfect
480p Full Screen - Choppy

 

[vshah]

i find screen area makes a big difference. it works great on my 1440x900 laptop screen, but stutters on my 1680x1050 desktop LCD. if i window it and make it a little smaller than fullscreen, it plays fine.

 

[Lucky777]

BTW guys, I don't think it's a Flash problem. Fox.com shows play perfectly for me (and that's using Flash too, I think). I think the Fox runs at a higher resolution than Hulu too.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: Lucky777
BTW guys, I don't think it's a Flash problem. Fox.com shows play perfectly for me (and that's using Flash too, I think). I think the Fox runs at a higher resolution than Hulu too.

I think it's something with how Hulu handles frame buffers not working right with some driver or bit of software.

 

[Renob]

I have an upper midrange system, 6mb download and Hulu runs very smooth 99% of the time, I watch about 5 hours of Hulu a week.

 

[Saga]

Modern hardware will not have an issue doing video/audio encodes, even in HD. I'm relatively certain I could take apart my girlfriends old Nokia cell phone and the processor in that POS would be enough to accomplish full AC3 and HD.

Without the proper bandwidth, however, your quality will suffer. The easiest indication is to simply go and download PlayOn. Within the configuration it shows you a constantly refreshing (accurate) explanation of your current stream-capable bandwith, and shows you what they recommend you have for optimal streaming.

Cheers.

 

[Demo24]

I've never had a problem with hulu on full screen playback. I use the 480p option on everything and run at full screen. I only have issues with the buffer running out if somethings happening on my network. You can let it buffer for a bit, so I recommend you try that and see if it helps.

Perhaps it doesn't like widescreen resolutions as I run 1600x1200 on my desktop, it's not exactly the most powerful: 3800+,2gb, and an x800xl.

 

[funkymatt]

notice a difference now, clair?

 

[rodrigu3]

anyone try my solution?

 

[josh0371]

Hey i just disabled hardware acceleration and it was LAG FREE in HD 780i full screen i had same problem where i put it full screen and it lagged and i thought i was weird because i could watch vids in Full screen on my older computer without a problem but with this new one it lagged and i knew it wasnt my internet i have 12mb internet speed super fast so i looked for the answer here and someone said to disable hardware acceleration so i tryed that and it worked perfectly THANKS

 

[mxyzptlk]

works fine for me. C2D @2ghz (or 2.3.. i forget) same 8600GT video card as the ops 2nd machine. 2GB ram

Since I get shitty OTA reception due to buildings around my apartment, hulu is my only source of broadcast TV. Thankfully it works perfectly or *gasp* I'd actually have to pay for TV.

 

[EGGO]

Fullscreen doesn't affect anything. HD on the other hand...

 

[TheVrolok]

Machine in my sig, 480p Hulu vids stretched to 1920x1200 "full screen" .. no problems.

 

[Miramonti]

I always play it in normal res and have never seen a studder.

 

[SilentZero]

They play great for me on my laptop (17in Macbook pro). Haven't tried it out on my desktops yet, but i'm assuming the quality would be the same.

 

[OUCaptain]

I've noticed it as well on a good pc with good bandwidth. It's only in fullscreen mode. It's not as much choppy as it is dropping frames. I remember reading it was a common problem with the latest flash version. Sorry guys but I can't seem to find the article that described the problem. I'll keep searching, but I never found a resolution to the issue. You might try downgrading flash but I make no promises as I'm going off memory here.

 

[roushcougarj]

I had all the same symptoms as some of you. Vista 32 bit here. Finally got it playing smoothly full screen. All I did after some trial and error was go into NVIDIA control panel> Manage 3D settings> Global Settings> change texture filtering from quality to performance. Now I'm running Hulu at near full speed. Not 100% perfect but watchable in full screen on STD res now.

 

[lupi]

if i don't play hd/full screen stuff it plys pretty smooth. Go full screen high quality and she chugs like a gal you picked up at a 2am bar trip/