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Choppy video on Youtube

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Hi all,

First, I'm asking for help on this list because I've observed this to be 
a very august group :) and I'm actually a bit in awe to be in the 
presence of Debian developers...  I've only been using Debian for a few 
weeks -- I'm not new to Linux or Unix, although I'm still a relative 
beginner.

Here's my problem -- when I stream certain videos on Youtube, I 
consistently get choppy playback performance, whereby the video freezes 
and restarts randomly, with the audio getting out of sync from that 
point forward.  The problem is NOT due to the video still being 
downloaded -- I know this because the progress bar shows that the 
download is way ahead of my viewing progress.

Here are my specs:

- Debian Jessie 32-bit (I had installed 8.3 and subsequently ran some 
updates, but I don't know how to check to see if I'm up to 8.4)
- Gnome 3
- Firefox 45.0.1
- Flash is NOT installed
- flashplugin-nonfree is NOT installed
- neither gnash nor pepper are installed
- example of a video that gets choppy: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Tok9KUjTw (the problem seems to start 
during the "man on the street" segments)
- When the choppiness is happening, System Monitor tells me that one of 
my four CPUs is maxing out at 100% at least half the time

Hardware:
​- Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series (Intel(R)) - 3551
- Intel Pentium CPU N3540 @ 2.16GHz x 4 (2M Cache, up to 2.66 GHz)
- 4GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (4GBx1)
- Graphics: Intel Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2

I would love to receive help from this list...  thanks much much in advance!

-Harris

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Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 18:50 +0200
  Re: Choppy video on Youtube Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 20:20 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-06 20:40 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 14:20 +0200
      Re: Choppy video on Youtube Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 15:20 +0200
          Re: Choppy video on Youtube Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 15:40 +0200
  Re: Choppy video on Youtube Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-06 21:20 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 14:50 +0200
  Re: Choppy video on Youtube Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 02:40 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 15:10 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 19:20 +0200
  Re: Choppy video on Youtube Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-04-07 16:30 +0200
    Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 17:10 +0200
      Re: Choppy video on Youtube Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 17:20 +0200
      Re: Choppy video on Youtube Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-04-07 19:20 +0200
        Re: Choppy video on Youtube Harris Paltrowitz <harris1nyc@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 23:10 +0200

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