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Why do I have choppy video playback?

Dell Latitude CPx choppy video playback?

  • I have a Dell Latitude CPx laptop, obviously an old one. I have reinstalled the operating system and everything is working fine. The only problem I'm having is when I try to watch a video on Youtube or ESPN, the playback is very choppy, to the point that it's almost impossible to see what's going on. What could be the problem? Is it just too old? Video card needs to be upgraded? Driver issue? I would appreciate any help. Thanks!

  • Answer:

    I guess you need to update your video driver. Hope this link can be helpful: http://www.drivers-updates.net/drivers/video-card-drivers-download.html Good luck.

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There are two central reasons that your laptop isn't able to play these videos well. First, many videos now use the H.264 codec which takes far more processing power than was used previously as a tradeoff for much better compression and thus much less space used. Thus, while old SD videos used to render just fine on your laptop, they won't always do it now because they're 'harder' to process. The only reason slow machines (iPhone, etc.) can run these videos so well today is because of hardware-based decoding. Second, Flash. Regardless of his reasoning, Jobs is very right about Flash video being the bane of computing. Flash is extremely inefficient and drags even modern computers down.

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