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I am running Ubuntu 12.04 I have tried reading different articles online but I am beat. I check my internet speeds they are running at the correct speeds. Yet when on Youtube videos just take ages to get working.

I for the most part us Chromium, although i tried to use firefox to see if this was browser specific and it was not. I get very low loading time for Youtube. I have streamed from other pages with ease.

I tried in creasing cache, updating flash, playing under html5.

( I have 12mb/down speed internet, when i ran videos on Win7 never had an issue my internet could handle 720p)

anybody have a solution?

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The problem may be that YouTube is using Flash, which is notorious for being slow on Linux. Try going here and clicking the link to participate in the YouTube HTML5 beta. The player isn't as nice, but it should perform better.

Dillmo
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I had a similar problem, as you said it has persisted across multiple browsers, and speed checks out. I am assuming Ubuntu is your OS.

1.Try deleting your 'libflashplayer.so' plugins and re-download from adobe. Unpack and move back to plugin directory of your browser.

2.Try clearing (in chromium) your history. Also go to tools in control menu, and clear browsing data. Might be a weird caching problem.

Did you add any extensions? Do other video sites, or flash games work? As a last resort un-install chromium, and remove completely in Synaptic, and all old config files, and reinstall.

Might need a system update, if you haven't tried already. Also reboot system.

Good luck!

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In my case I determined that it was actually the audio that was not working properly. That was causing the video to hang. Performing the following fixed my issue:

  1. Make sure pulse audio is installed
  2. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k

Reference: No sound device detected

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John
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Try installing HAL (hardware acceleraion layer) as per this answer that solved my problems with streaming videos. It seems to make youtube run smoothly too, though I don't know whether I might just be imagining the effect.

The Directions for Raring:

sudo apt-get install hal

sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe

sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information

/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes

rm -rf ~/.adobe
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Nil
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Check the below link. May be it will be useful to you.

http://www.blogercup.com/play-youtube-videos-in-slow-motion-or-fast-motion/

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Well just check this..! For Installing 'libflashplayer.so'

http://tipswell.com/how-to-install-libflashplayer-so-in-linux.html

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HERE IS THE PERFECT SOLUTION: I am also running Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit. I had same problem util yesterday. The solution is to run the following command to turn off Ubuntu Power Management for your wireless device, usually it will be "wlan0"

1-) Open a "TERMINAL" and type "sudo iwconfig" This will list the available wireless interfaces in your system. Find out your wireless device name. My output is:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth2 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"AIRTEL"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 50:67:F0:C7:CF:7C
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

As you see above mine is "eth2"

2-) Now in "TERMINAL" type "sudo iwconfig >>your wireless device name<< power off" As I typed "sudo iwconfig eth2 power off" That's it. Now check out your youtube videos and tell me the result. For more info check this link -->

@user107534

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