How to solve jitter (or stutter) playback via Chrome flash plugin?

Since the update to 12.04, there's been a problem specifically related to audio/video playback in Google Chrome.

The problem only affected the Google version but not the Chromium nor the Firefox Browsers.

Solution 1:

Update July 19th 2012:

As of today, this happened once again, and I solved it with the same method, so this could apply to any version. It's not clear (at least for me) if this is a bug related to Chrome updates or something else. If someone could clarify this, I would be grateful. On the other hand, if you go down to this road, take it as a temporary solution.

The solution:

Here's what I did.

1. On Google Chrome entered chrome://plugins/ and look where the flash plugin was. I saw that there were 3 different plugins installed.

2. On the right side of the window I pressed the "+" sign on "Details".

3. I disabled (by clicking on "disable") each one of them, one at a time, and finally, after some tests, the one that worked for me was the one that was called /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so (the "original" flash plugin, and not the integrated chrome version).

I'm no expert, but I think there are some problems related to the integrated version, so untill a new version is released, I'll stick to the "original" plugin.

Hope it works for you!