Great find 

Coo....They recorded that at top volume !
I could actually hear the backing track.

Now....I ask for info only.....
Does everyone else find the video breaks up and you get giant pixellated (?) bits.....or
a) is my PC so out of date it can't cope with the info being streamed...or
b) my flash player needs updating ?

Cheers - Phil.

 

Posted to my FB friends - too good not to share

Excellent  

(Chad - I've embedded it here...let me know if you'd rather I didn't do this  )

Phil - you need to feed those hamsters powering your processor 

No problems on mine, Phil.

Nik

No problem.

Chad

Thats really good - the music, the dancing and the animation of the babies. They now look really natural - some of the early attempts at this style where quite fake.

Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2013, 09:38:37 AM
Coo....They recorded that at top volume !
I could actually hear the backing track.

Now....I ask for info only.....
Does everyone else find the video breaks up and you get giant pixellated (?) bits.....or
a) is my PC so out of date it can't cope with the info being streamed...or
b) my flash player needs updating ?

Cheers - Phil.

For me it plays in HD at full screen perfectly - so I suspect that Phil, it is a) and b) and probably c) your broadband is pants as you live up a hill in the middle of no-where. ;-)

works fine - silly ad, very funny.

Ians

Quote from: fred    12df on 10 August 2013, 10:34:23 AM
For me it plays in HD at full screen perfectly - so I suspect that Phil, it is a) and b) and probably c) your broadband is pants as you live up a hill in the middle of no-where. ;-)

I get about 7Mb/sec.....Is that total rubbish nowadays ?.......Yes, I do live up a hill in the middle of nowhere.
Cheers - Phil.

Well I get 45 Mb/s - but that is with BT Infinity, which is about as good as you can get domestically - but 7 Mb/s is still pretty decent. So it probably is your PC I'm afraid.

Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2013, 07:15:03 PM
I do live up a hill in the middle of nowhere.

That'll be it then. Electrons go a lot slower up hill. On the plus side, sending will be a lot quicker.

Awesome

Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2013, 07:15:03 PM
I get about 7Mb/sec.....Is that total rubbish nowadays ?.......Yes, I do live up a hill in the middle of nowhere.
Cheers - Phil.

Update Flashplayer.
Update Browser (Firefox)
Download Ccleaner from piriform. Start it and "Run Cleaner".
Defragment the PC

Restart
Enjoy (Hopefully)

After using CCleaner I think Slimcleaner is a better product

I'm beginning to think that the computer itself is more than a tad tired and old now.

I do Defragment it every couple of days.....(It tells me I have 60% + 'free space'.....So it's not 'full' is it ?)
BUT .....I'll have to check the browser (Firefox)...though I thought it was up to date.....Ditto Flashplayer....(Though that one I'm not so convinced about....Last time I updated that, I'm not sure that worked properly. ....It said it had downloaded.....but after 'running' it I think it stayed on the previous version.

I've got a 'cleaner' (Uniblue) which seems to find and clean garbage out every couple of days.

It seems to work fine a lot of the time.....But other times, it's a case of "FFS....Get a move on !!"

Thanks for the input anyway guys !!

Cheers - Phil.

FFS? I seem to ahve the same configuration on my PC Phil

Just to be clear it is less than 2 months old and speedy enough but the occasional WTF moment is built in I guess....

You really don't need to defragment that often !

You really should only need to defragment every six months or so - probably not even then on a newish machine with lots of disk space. If you have 60% free disk space I wouldn't bother.
I actually can't remember the last time I ran a manual defragment on one of my PCs.

One of the biggest causes of slow downs is various programs you have running in the background - often installers of one bit of software (or hardware) will install lots of stuff in that is allegedly 'useful' to you. It very rarely is - but determining exactly what you can get rid of or not is generally not straight forward.

Another big cause of slowdowns in Anti Virus software, it is forever running scans, getting updates etc. But its usually better to have than not have it.

A lot of the 'cleaner' software is pretty paranoid and will suggest stuff to clean that is totally innocuous from a performance point of view - such as website cookies - that at worst provide feedback to advertisers, to target you with adverts, but this is just annoying marketing junk, not actually an issue with the machine running slowly.

How old is the PC, and approximately how much did it cost new?

Personally I use an iMac at home running OS X, and it is a world better than the reasonably high spec PC I use at work running windows XP. I am supposed to be getting a newer PC with Windows 7 soon - so it will be interesting to see if that is any better.

Quote from: fred    12df on 10 August 2013, 10:06:07 PM
Personally I use an iMac at home running OS X, and it is a world better than the reasonably high spec PC I use at work running windows XP. I am supposed to be getting a newer PC with Windows 7 soon - so it will be interesting to see if that is any better.

Forbes, you know it won't be