Fedora freezes while streaming video

[rando1000]

I've had this problem on a machine, both in Fedora 8 and Fedora 9. Whenever I try to watch streaming video, in pretty much any fashion, the machine almost always (but not always) freezes. By freezes, I mean the current X session freezes, and even if I control-alt to a separate console session, I cannot log in; it just hangs and doesn't let me type.

This usually happens after between 5 minutes and an hour of video.

I can watch DVD, video files without a problem. I also notice bittorrent sometimes causes the problem, but not anywhere near as often.

The machine's running an AM2 motherboard with a dual core AMD 64. The video card is some sort of Nvidia, less than two years old.

Any ideas, or any suggestions on where to get more information? I've been using Linux for quite a while, but honestly, I've never had it freeze up like this, so I'm not sure where to look for a cause.

[JohnVV]

with out knowing more i would guess that it is a flash or java problem .
have you searched the forum for fedora9 64bit and video or flash , java

[rando1000]

Originally Posted by JohnVV

with out knowing more i would guess that it is a flash or java problem .
have you searched the forum for fedora9 64bit and video or flash , java

I don't think this is the issue; it happens even when booting to a virtual copy of Windows XP in VirtualBox, so I wouldn't be using Fedora's Flash/Java software to interpret the stream in that case.

I wonder if the default drivers installed for the video card could be the cause.

[JohnVV]

I wonder if the default drivers installed for the video card could be the cause.

do you have the current ones from lvina
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f9.html#nvidia

[rando1000]

I'm not at my computer, but I doubt it. I don't think I ever changed the drivers from when I installed the OS. I'll check it out.

In that past, I always prefered Radeon for video, so I'm not used to dealing with NVidia.