Youtube/Hulu with hardware acceleration? Does anyone know how I can get the videos to work without having to disable hardware acceleration?
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I updated the copy of Flash delivered with the AR3700 to the current version 10.1.85.3 at the Adobe Web site before trying any YouTube HD videos. (Also upgrade Acrobat Reader to the current version 9.4 while you're there.) If I right-click a video, and select Settings, it shows Adobe Flash Player Settings, and Display, and Enable hardware acceleration, which is checked. Try viewing the Toy Story 3 - Official Trailer [HD]. That one played perfectly for me both last night and again just now. I also just successfully watched the "Knives Out" music video by Radiohead on Hulu, in full screen mode on a 1600 by 1200 pixel screen. If your PC still can't view those videos, it's possible you have a hardware issue. One other thing you might check is the NVIDEA control panel, which in turn can take you to the NVIDEA Web site.
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The Aspire One I had ran on Windows XP. So I gave up on watching any videos...not enough memory. Kept stopping to buffer and buffer etc. Since Windows 8 supposedly uses a much lower amount of memory and thus frees it up for other programs, maybe it would work ok. But can the hardware support Win 8? I don't know. Bottom line is if streaming video is critical to you, look at another model. This is my personal experience and I am not an IT professional.
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The only thing I know that might be able to help you is the Skyfire browser app, which has built-in support for some flash (don't know if that includes all flash such as games or not). I can watch Youtube videos now, so that's a start. But on some other sites the video doesn't load at all. So I'm not sure how much it will help.
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I have both Netflix and Hulu+ apps on the D2-721 and they work perfectly. The D2-721 (or the D2-721G) is good for watching video since it has a larger screen with 800x600 resolution, compared to just 800x480 for most other 7" tablets. Most racing games can run just fine on the D2-721, but for those with high-end graphics the display may become choppy.
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I have tested Netflix video from my Android tablet with no issues. Music from the same device is also not an issue and works great. From my Chromebook is a problem, stuttering etc.
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I use this device with playon.tv and I can stream Hulu just fine. Apps work fine but browsing is sluggish as reported.
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I have three Sony Internet players in the house, and a 50 mbs internet connection. Generally it works well, although I did move the player at the far end of the basement onto a wired connection. Occasionally I still have an issue with the responsiveness of youtube videos, but as far as I can tell it is an issue with their streaming server or local ISP congestion, not with the player.
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have had no problems.youtube is a little slow sometimes and needs a 5 sec. pause,but streaming lg file 1080 movies is always smooth that's were this unit excels.for streaming your own or downloaded video this is best.for youtube and internet android type are better.try kdlinks
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Stuff like flash (youtube) is very processor (cpu) dependent; I recently put this in an old machine which had an old intel core 2 duo e4700 and it was fine. So compare that with your own setup.It did seem like it was stuttering if anything else was running. It might be worth it to put another 10 dollars into the video card, but if all your going to be doing is running youtube video it's fine. (Although seriously consider bumping up slightly.)
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Geologist is correct, I think. It is a processing power issue. I have an old single-core Pentium 2.4GHz and no matter which player I try, I get stopping and starting when playing back.Strangely enough, I've had much better results by uploading the videos to the FlipShare website and playing them from there! I guess they must be compressing them somehow, which is ordinarily a bad thing but in this case allows you to see them without the "stuttering" in the playback.
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Netflix, Hulu Plus, and YouTube are all options in this model. If you have it set up for wi-fi, you can do software updates. Google the owner's manual if you need directions on how to do any of that. I watch YouTube all the time, but don't use any of the pay services.
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As a blue ray player this works just fine, But for any streaming (youtube netflix ext) I would get another device for that. I experience constant freezing/pausing and its really slow to bootup. I just got a amazon firestick for 40 bucks and I am much more happy with that.
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YouTube works like it always has... HD is fine, WiFi question has to many variables to answer.
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I didn't experience the setup problems you did, nor did I experience the stuttering. So I guess the answer to your question is that things must have improved. After more testing after my initial review, I did encounter a few negatives: I did hear the noisy fan (I didn't notice initially since it was in a room I don't often visit). When trying to play the streams on my MacBook laptop using Safari, I did get stuttering, but that isn't my primary use case. And when playing on Roku, the video quality isn't as good as, say, the same shows streaming from Hulu. But I would expect that since Hulu isn't streaming live and can devote more horsepower to encoding the streams. On an iPad, however, the streams look great! Also, I've recently had a chance to try streaming from Simple.TV to ChromeCast. Similar issues with video quality not being as good as live TV, but quality was the same as on Roku. I actually prefer viewing on ChromeCast vs. Roku, but that's my personal preference. Overall, I'm quite happy with the device. Is it perfect? No. But it seems that it is getting incrementally better with each software update.
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Well the New YouTube App for Android is pretty bad so i didn't upgrade. My wife did and its pretty awful, its slow and it sometime crashes (the old app have none of these issues). My browser was a little to slow for my taste as well so i downloaded the Dolphin browser on Google Play and it seems to be working fine so far. I'd recommend doing the same thing.
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I don't use Hulu, but if you lower the resolution it may work. Even though the device claims 1080P I run at 720P. It's faster and most feeds only supply a signal at 720P or lower anyway.
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Just tried an episode of The Office on hulu this morning, and found fullscreen to be jerky. Restoring to the default hulu small video size was smooth though.