Just for fun, can you try mplayer? I know people swear by VLC but I've NEVER had luck with that thing. Mplayer always worked perfectly for me though. On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > I've been using Flash Video Downloader add-on to Firefox (on Ubuntu) to > download YouTube videos and play them with VLC. They play much better on VLC > than they do with Firefox. It isn't just because of buffering because even > with good buffering in YouTube on Firefox I get a lot of jerking of the video > with higher definition. > > The nicest thing I downloaded so far was a full version of Baraka (1992) in > 1080p HD. It seems to be gone now, probably because of copyright issues, but > it looks like some 720p versions are available. > > Now that Samsara (2012) is out on DVD (it's like Baraka, made by same > people), I'm wondering if I can get a nice HD version on the web. I found > that YouTube has it in 720p (1280x720) but it cost $4.99. That's not a lot > of money, so I took a chance and paid for it. Well, it just doesn't play > well on my system at 720p in YouTube/Firefox so I used Flash Video Downloader > to download it to my hard drive. That seemed to work until I opened it in > VLC -- it shows the right length (1:42:16) and the file is about 1.5 GB, and > VLC runs, as if it were playing the movie, but there is no video and no > audio. > > Do any of you know anything about this? I don't know if it's a DRM issue, > but that's what I suspect. I just want to watch the movie that I paid for. > I don't want to rip them off and I'm not going to distribute copies. > > Thanks. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --