^ Im having problems too. Video is choppy, sound is choppy. Even when fully loaded. If changed all my settings, old player works fine.

Is there a way to alternate between the old and new player ?

Its works smoothly for me, but a video takes like 5 minutes to load now lol

you are doing pretty well. I really think Kris, you might rethink this.

1) I can't run these videos at all on my lap top, even from a clean boot. CPU usage maxes out. That may be the problem.
2) Even on my bigger computers, it is too slow. I will take the lower resolution coming quicker over this, any day of the week. I can see clear enough.

Here is what I would do.

Put in a radio button for high resolution. Just put it on every lesson page. Keep it simple. Simple is good. Keep the new format, just load the lower resolution videos if the user has selected that. Once selected, remember the current selection for the rest of the session. The low resolution videos will be smaller, you won't want them that big as that would be unclear. Just put a border or something around them to they fill up the pane to the size of the high resolution videos.

Something like that.

This post has been edited by fkalich: Nov 18 2008, 06:18 AM

+1 That sounds like a nice idea fkalich

If those of you who are having problems could open the process explorer (ctrl + alt + del > task manager > processes), sort the processes by highest CPU usage (click the CPU column) and post whatever might be high (ignoring the system idle process) then I'll help out with looking into this.

Mine was iexplore - 07. System idle process was 90 though.

And you found the video choppy, and it wasn't a bandwidth issue (the video had loaded)?

Interesting. Do you find this happens when you're watching any other videos on the computer? (YouTube/downloaded files, etc.)?

Wasn't going to bring this up myself...

I've had trouble with the new player too. It's not a buffering thing.

I have an older Mac laptop that I do most of my stuff with (powerbook G4). The G4's have trouble with big Flash videos. My experience with the new player in GMC isn't any different than what I get in Vimeo and other HD-resolution flash videos.

If I'm going to watch new videos on GMC, I need to switch to the new Vista laptop which handles it fine. It would be nice to be able to pick a smaller video size so I don't have to switch, but I'll deal with it.

I have a really new vista laptop, great computer, but it's not handling it. I wonder what the difference is?

No...never have a problem with video files anywhere else. Just the new player here.

Not sure. Mine was a $500 Compaq from last Christmas. Will take a look and see again tonight when I get home.

Im having the same problem.

This post has been edited by coffeeman: Nov 18 2008, 03:56 PM

Same problem here. Tried with IE and Firefox, low quality..still choppy. Have never had video problems before.

~Marc

I did everything on the "help video problem" page and the new player is still choppy for me.

Try right clicking on the players red frame (bellow the play button for example) and choosing quality>low .That can really diminish and/or remove the choppyness problem.

I tried this again - and checked the cpu usage of firefox and there was a big difference!

I would be very interested in hearing what happens if the people who are still having problems try this. (if there should be a difference we won't ask you to constantly go and click that option in the future, but it will help us find any problems so we can solve them).

Lowering the quality gives me about a 15% decrease in CPU usage, but its still not smooth.

Ok - but if I get your right it has an effect? (although not as much as we would like it to)

Yes. Comparing to the old video player, it would be around 20-35% pc usage, but the new one at best (on low) is around 60%, and can go as high as 90%.

This post has been edited by JVM: Nov 19 2008, 11:40 PM