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Kari Aliranta (kpaliran) wrote : Re: playback of flash videos skips frames

 Happens to me too in Feisty, and using Nvidia Geforce 2 MX and the open source driver for graphics, running in a 1,1 Ghz Athlon. "Top" shows processor usage in the range of 2 to 9 percent, so probably this isn't a performance problem.

Mplayer - which also uses Ffmpeg for decoding FLV-files, alike to the Xine engine - exhibits this bug instead:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/73271

The VCL media player works fine, except for the fact that you cannot seek the video with it (this bug, however, is fixed upstream).