My G4 1.25ghz with 1 gb ram plays abc video slow.

Anytime your streaming videos are playing but not running smoothly, you either have a slow internet connection and aren't downloading fast enough to keep the data streaming OR you don't have enough RAM to keep up with the streaming data and everything else that's going on in the background. Check your internet connection speed first. If you have a good download speed then add RAM to your pc. (You could also try clearing cache on your browser)

You probably need more ram memory. Also try playing a video in your dvd player. If it plays slow and choppy you definitely need more ram memory.

If you are trying to play a video from a website (streaming) then three things can affect how smooth it plays.
1) Memory - your ram memory might be low
2) The website might be experience heavy traffic from many users.
3) The Line Speed of your internet connection from your service provider might be slow. For example: AT&T sells about 3 or 4 different packages and each one increases the line speed for uploading or downloading. If you buy the low end package the line speed is very slow on uploading and downloading or streaming. It's ok for just surfing, but nothing else.

Either the videos are badly coded or the codecs you have are old. Try playing the videos in VLC, if even it can't do it then the files are corrupted.

How much HD space do you have left? Most macs run best if you keep abou 10gb of HD space free. Furthermore, cut back on excessive app loads (bells and whistles. The ultimate solution is to back up your files and reinstall the mac os. If the problem persists it is possible that the CPU is starting to break down. This is replaceable at significant cost from mac repair shop. Maximizing RAM helps some, but age of the equipment will reduce performance.

I have the exact same problem ... I have a Compaq ... Vista Home Basic, plenty of RAM 1.8GHz ... FLIP told me the exact same thing ... it's exTREMEly frustrating.

Hi there.
Try reinstalling the display drivers and update the flash player.

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http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/


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First of all you're running vista, which is a major no-no. Since your RAM is only 2 gigs, vista will take up about 1.3-1.5 gigs of ram, depending on which version you have.As for the video card i really do not see a problem. Try updating your drivers, i would suggest Driver Genius Professional Edition, as for free editions google them. Hope this helps. I'm not as good at laptops, so bare with me.

The video is choppy because your computer is not powerful enough to decode the video. The imac g3 was a great computer in its day but it was never designed to run the graphically intensive programs of today. OS 10.4 already places a lot of demands on an older machine. Adding youtube video only exasperates the problem as there simply isn't enough processing power or memory to run the pretty aqua user interface of OS 10.4 and decode video at the same time.

Adding more ram may help (256 MB is not very much these days) but truth be told I don't think you will see much of an improvement given the low power of the G3 processor. Sorry to say it, but if you want to watch flash videos (youtube) with any level of reliability you are going to have to look for a newer machine. You probably could find a used imac g5 for a good price on ebay or maybe treat yourself to a new imac. Rumour has it Apple will be coming out with a new model in the next few days (weeks) so keep on eye out for that if your thinking of buying new.

Orginally your unit comes with 256MB of RAM wit a shared 64MB of VGA. If you haven't added any RAM yet, then I suggest upgrade it by adding another 512MB or 1 GB of DDR PC2700.


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have you plugged it into a front usb port?
try plugging it into a back one. it worked for me :D
hope it works our for you!