All flash videos playing far too quickly

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:32, brian wrote:

I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with
reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my
wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using
XFCE.

The problem we're both having is that all Flash videos play FAR too quickly
- maybe (guesstimate) by a factor of three or four.

I've tried removing and reinstalling the flashplugin package. I've tried
downloading the latest player from Adobe. I've tried IceWeasel, Chromium and
Epiphany. Nothing helps.

I've tried doing searches, and obviously I'm not the only one to have seen
this problem, but I can't find anything which gives a solution for Debian.

Has anyone managed to solve this?

Never heard of it.

You say you have tried Flash 11 direct from Adobe (single .so)?
That has given me the least trouble of any version.

Check FF/IW about:plugins to verify that that is really the only Flash
it is seeing.

What video cards and drivers do you have?
Is this all 64 bit?


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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On 02/17/2012 10:51 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote:

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:32, brian wrote:

I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with
reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my
wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using
XFCE.

The problem we're both having is that all Flash videos play FAR too quickly
- maybe (guesstimate) by a factor of three or four.

I've tried removing and reinstalling the flashplugin package. I've tried
downloading the latest player from Adobe. I've tried IceWeasel, Chromium and
Epiphany. Nothing helps.

I've tried doing searches, and obviously I'm not the only one to have seen
this problem, but I can't find anything which gives a solution for Debian.

Has anyone managed to solve this?

Never heard of it.

Hi Kelly,

I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e.
later today, hopefully) but if you plug "flash too fast Debian" into a
Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the
problem, dating from 2006 onwards.

For some reason, Mint 9 (our previous distro, based on Ubuntu) didn't
show the problem, using exactly the same hardware. There seems little
doubt that it's the installation of Debian which has caused us both
the problem - either that or it's an unbelievable coincidence.

And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded
direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo
claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little
to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details.


Brian.


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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:16, brian wrote:

<snip>

And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct
from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to
emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as
my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details.

Well, it isn't emulation. If it says that, it has a GeForce 6150 chip on
the motherboard. It is odd, but not unheard of, to have an nVidia chipset
and an AMD CPU.

I am suspecting the drivers, though it could be some library or something if
all of those browsers you tried where the Debian versions. Have you tried
any of the upstream versions? (e.g. FF tarballs, Google's Chromium repos)


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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On 02/17/2012 11:38 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote:

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:16, brian wrote:

<snip>

And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct
from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to
emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as
my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details.

Well, it isn't emulation. If it says that, it has a GeForce 6150 chip on
the motherboard. It is odd, but not unheard of, to have an nVidia chipset
and an AMD CPU.

Hardware's not my strong point - I didn't know whether it was just
something claiming to be "compatible with" the GeForce 6150, nor that
it was a chip rather than a card.

Pat's PC is a eMachines/Wal-Mart model, so no doubt it's slightly
cheaper to have that combination, unusual though it might be.

I am suspecting the drivers, though it could be some library or something if
all of those browsers you tried where the Debian versions. Have you tried
any of the upstream versions? (e.g. FF tarballs, Google's Chromium repos)

No, the browsers are all from the Wheezy repositories. Now you mention
it, IceWeasel does seem to be based on a rather old version of
Firefox. I'll try grabbing at least Firefox and Chromium direct from
the sites. Watch this space...


Brian.


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On Vi, 17 feb 12, 11:16:17, brian wrote:

And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded
direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's
mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a
little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the
details.

$ lspci -nn | grep VGA

Kind regards,
Andrei
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