High CPU with Flash video

I'm just wondering if anyone can shed any light on why my Macbook gets all hot and bothered whenever I play Flash video (i.e. from YouTube and others). After only a few seconds of streaming, the fans rev up and the CPU usage gets up pretty high, sometimes almost to 100%. This can't be normal, can it?
Anyone have any ideas for remedying this?

Hi Glueslabs,
In addition to my post here is quote from Eric Kracinski:
Safari is one of those apps that eats up RAM and CPU cycles the longer you leave it open. Closing it out every now and again should free up some of the RAM that it has allocated to it,
taken from :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4251872&#4251872
And I agree too, the longer I use Safari with all streaming video or leave it open and idle, will trigger the fans to kick in.
Good Luck.
ps: Quote use without permission from Eric Kracinski,..
Sorry Eric, can I use your quote for this...

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If, as you show, you are running 10.5.2, that is out of date. You need to install the 10.5.8 combo updater.
It is also possible that your FlashPlayer is out of date.
The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
You should first uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
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I may have found a resolution to your problem. I was having a
similar problem where instead of the video displaying I would see
the embedded source code appear. I found that I needed to declare
the column type for my XML document and once I did the video
appears correctly. Below is the code I used;
var myvids = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("myvideos.xml",
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I'm having problems with Flash Videos (Youtube and ESPN)

I have been having this problem for the last couple of days now and it is really annoying. Whenever I watch a flash video like on youtube or espn my computer freezes up and the audio will make a loud buzzing sound. I have attached a video with the post so you can see what happens. I don't have problems with anything else except this. I also get this error no matter what browser I use. I have system restored my PC as far as I can go, and I've ran a ton of scans and driver update checks and nothing seems to work.

merci a tous pour les nombreuses réponse. j'ai dû mal a les lire vue que je ne lit que le français. je vous remercié encore une fois amicalement. Blanchette 2.
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:50:19 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I'm having problems with Flash Videos (Youtube and ESPN)
What I meant is Hardware Acceleration off (disabled).
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Xdotool doesn't work with flash videos

Hi,
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but xdotool doesn't seems to work with flash videos.
For example open the page http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz and start the game, the left key should now move the bloc to the left.
Open a terminal and type `sleep 5; xdotool key Left ', then come back to the game.
Nothing happens.
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I already tried with different web browsers, different flash plugins, but this works nowhere.
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the code:
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function aller1(e:MouseEvent){gotoAndPlay(2),trace("dd")};
it works.
next I have a buton in my frame 2 in order to go to the frame
1 like this:
sommaire.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,allersommaire);
function allersommaire(e:MouseEvent){gotoAndPlay(1)};
When I return to the frame 1 , this button doesn't work and I
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TypeError: Error #1009
With flash 9, I don´t have this problem.
Sorry with my english, I m french.
Thank you.

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''Sourjobraato Banerjee [[#answer-672074|said]]''
<blockquote>
Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:
* [[Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems]]
* [[Flash 11.3 crashes]]
* [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:
* http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071#TemporaryWorkaround
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Disabling_Protected_Mode_in_Flash_11.3
(See [http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html this Adobe blog post] for technical details about Flash protected mode.)
For recent updates for Adobe Shockwave Flash, please update your version to 14.
Please refer to the security updates [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html and Adobe Security Bulletin] for more information.


Please tell us if this helped!
</blockquote>
nah. Those steps didn't help me fix the issue. downgrading Firefox to 33.1.1 did however.

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I'm having a problem with Flash video playback, hoping
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I have several movies which I have converted to .flv using
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movie, embedding the .flv along with the playback component,
playback controls, etc.
I can open these .swfs using Flash Player and everything
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a web page and open it using a browser, the playback controls don't
show up, and the movie will only play if it has been encoded to
autoplay. I am on an Intel Mac, using the latest Flash Player
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to be in the same directory as the .html doc which is displaying
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Help with flash video buffering

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is empty and the graphic pops back on. The following is the code
that I'm using to call and buffer the video. Any help would be
great!
stop();
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
nc.connect(null);
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ns.setBufferTime(10);
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Again thank you for your help in advance...
I put the script folder into the root. As far as the .flv
file it is showing up as being "put" to my web server. when i
checked the root folder it is there. again i am having the same
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show up.
i created a new root for this test page the new link is..
http://www.wfwa.org/TESTindexfolder/TESTindex.asp
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Yet another high cpu using flash issue

Salutations. What I'm about to tell you won't come to you as a surprise as there have been many similar topics discussed here. In fact, on the first page, there were two. So let's get on with it!
hp pavillion entertainment notebook dv6 e2170ee
windows 7 64bit
6gb ram
intel core i7 cpu q 720 @ 1.60 GHz    (never overclocked. don't know how to)
nvidia geforce gt 230m
firefox is on safe mode. kind of better than regular mode.
firefox waaaay better than chrome in handling flash. haven't tried it on ie. don't want to. i left ie8 at version 8
flash hardware accelration is off
firefox hardware accelaration is on
latest flash player enabled
latest shock player enabled
latest flash director enabled
latest firefox
no idea if my vents and cooling system work properly. read several posts about this issue being related to hardware.
i have updated my drivers using hp support assistant, driver detective, and windows update. wouldn't be surprised if there was a conflict with all this nvidia driver as well. went to the site. it detected my model and sent me the driver. had audio and video options in it.
while writing this post, the adobe tab + 4 flash tabs off the same site (youtube, younow, cam sites, etc) are open.
performance tab in taskbar says
flashplayer 15 *32bit (2 processes with the same name but diff cpu usage by the way. why 2?) is using 5%
firefox *32 bit is using 5%
audiodg.exe is nowhere to be found
now firefox and flashplayer keep alternating ofcourse. flash always ends up with higher cpu when everything breaks. i have noticed that even after closing ff, ff and flash are still in the processes table. they stay there for a bit. why?
ISSUE NUMBER 1: i can't play a video and have flash players on at the same time. I'd like to watch a movie and every now and then look to my other screen to see what's going on with the flash site. it can't be done. all is well at the beginning then it goes to hell. i have the latest free version of bsplayer and videolan. Yes vlc handles better but it all goes to hell in the end. sometimes the video won't even show on vlc; only audio
ISSUE NUMBER 2: i don't understand the logic behind the increase in cpu. if i have 6 tabs open all flash all is well. but at some point it just spikes up. so i always try to keep the number of flash tabs as low as possible. sometimes 4 are no issue but 5 are a big issue. sometimes closing a tab helps and sometimes it doesnt.
ISSUE NUMBER 3: audiodg starts using more than 2%. It can go up to 11 or 13 even. That shouldn't happen. I've been told that for it to go beyond 2 or even 3 means there's a conflict. I had trouble dealing with this issue. I don't know what or where the conflict is. So if there's anyone here that's good at this please contact me. Ill post a pic of device manager. For the sound, i have 4 nvideo and 1 idt audio codec. I cdon't know which to disable or uninstall. im thinking of unintalling every audio/video driver i hav and start from the beginning. BUT LETS NOT MAKE THIS ABOUT AUDIO/VIDEO CONFLICT
QUESTION 1: was there ever a time when this issue didn't exist? perhaps there's a "stable" version of ff or flash that don't cause this.
QUESTION 2: ive seen a lot of posts about this but I honestly can't remember any participants saying OH REALLY? ODD, I NEVER HAD THIS ISSUE BEFORE
QUESTION 3: isn't there some kind of tracer that can track the moment that it goes to hell? im sure there is but no one's mentioned it so far
QUESTION 4: would buying a new laptop solve this? I'd like to think not since the issue is flash not the capabilities of a laptop but i can't help but think that a better laptop will fix this. My laptop is 4 years old.
QUESTION 5: i don't know anything about multithreading or multiple cores handling a single process but if someone showed me how, would that resolve my issue?
MY WISH: for flash to coexist peacefully with human beings

Disabling Hardware Acceleration in Flash means that we're doing all of the processing on the CPU, instead of on the GPU. The GPU is purpose-built for 3D graphics and video decoding and is far more power efficient. Decoding H.264 video in software is very CPU intensive, which is why we made the huge investment to enable hardware acceleration on the vast majority of available desktop hardware. Running six CPU intensive tasks simultaneously (which is what you're doing by using six simultaneous tabs) is unsurprisingly going to tax your machine.
If you've disabled Hardware Acceleration because video wasn't working right or something, figuring out how to get that enabled (or moving to better hardware with good driver support) would solve the vast majority of what you're describing here. If HP doesn't offer updated drivers, I'd recommend trying the corresponding Nvidia drivers, as OEMs aren't always motivated to pick up the latest fixes once a model is no longer generating new revenue for them. The chipset manufacturers tend to provide longer support, but those drivers aren't officially supported by the OEM.
The architecture for Protected Mode for Firefox is a result of the fact that we've retrofitted a modern plug-in security approach to a legacy plug-in architecture. As you've noticed, equivalent sandboxing in other major browsers is designed into their plug-in architectures, and is therefore more efficient. We've made huge investments to support modern security architecture and always do our best to accommodate efforts from our partners in the browser space to further secure the browser. You can find a detailed explanation of our approach to Firefox here: Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox
Firefox controls the instantiation and destruction of Flash instances. You'll also notice that Firefox hangs out for a while after shutdown. This is something that we're aware of, but it's beyond our control.
Flash doesn't have much to do with audiodg, except for the fact that it generates sound and uses the windows sound subsystem. This article seems to present some reasonable advice in resolving issues with high CPU consumption from the sound subsystem. Fix Audiodg.exe High CPU Usage in Windows 7 | Windows EXE Errors
Hardware accelerated video encoding is typically not available on consumer-grade hardware (primarily because of the difference in licensing models for encoding and decoding with popular commercial codecs), and therefore is done on the CPU. The particular website chooses what codecs and bitrates are involved, and higher quality feed will consume more CPU. It's also worth pointing out that not all video can be decoded in hardware. We provide clear guidance to content providers on how to encode video so that it can be played back efficiently, it's ultimately up to the content provider to follow that advice.
So, long story short, each tab consumes resources. Running a single tab is going to use less resources than running multiple tabs. The latest version of Internet Explorer does some stuff to reduce resource consumption in tabs that you're not actively looking at. We're discussing possibilities with the Chrome folks for doing the same thing in Chromium-based browsers. Mozilla isn't interested in investing in browser plug-ins, so we don't expect to see the necessary browser-side improvements there. The Chrome sandboxing model is more efficient that protected mode for Firefox, so tasks that require moving a lot of data (like streaming video) may use less CPU in Chrome.
To answer your questions specifically:
1.) There was a time before we supported multiple tabs, webcam streaming, H.264 video decoding and modern security sandboxing. I wouldn't recommend using those versions.
2.) There are a few posts about this, but we have ~1.5 billion users. The majority of the very small number of folks relative to our install base are complaining their machines are overheating, which is a symptom of an ineffective cooling system.
     There's nothing magic about Flash that causes it to somehow superheat the CPU.
     There was a time before tabs, where people didn't normally run 5-50 browser windows. Websites also got much more complex, and the security threats got far more serious and complex.
     Playing video as a plug-in in the browser as opposed to something like VLC is inherently less efficient, as pretty much each pixel and packet gets passed through the browser before it gets to the OS or drivers.
     All of these things require additional processing. The resources on your computer are still finite, and there is an upper limit to the number of simultaneous tabs you can use.
     At some point, you come to a juncture where you need to decide between throwing more hardware at the problem, or using less tabs simultaneously.
     Also, most laptops have power saving CPUs, so they'll ratchet the clock speed down to save battery. You might want to check your power settings to make sure you're running at the CPU's full capacity when plugged in.
3.) Not that would generate anything really useful.
4.) Possibly. You actually already have a multi-core machine. I think you'd get more bang for your buck by enabling hardware acceleration and switching browsers.
5.) You already have a multi-core machine that we support.
Your Wish: We're constantly addressing security issues identified through our own testing, emerging research and intelligence from our partners in academia, government and industry. We're also looking for opportunities to tune the player, but the reality is that Intel, Nvidia and ATI (and a long list of others, in addition to Adobe) have tuned Flash Player extensively for their hardware. We work closely with the Internet Explorer and Chrome teams to continue to make the Flash experience better, and are always happy to work with the Firefox team should they decide that they're interested in plug-ins and the desktop browser again. At the end of the day, Flash is just a low-level runtime. It's just as possible to write inefficient ActionScript as it is to write inefficient C++, and while we provide some fantastic tooling for profiling your Flash content, it's up to individual content providers to write efficient code. It's really difficult to find opportunities to make generic optimizations that don't break a percentage of the hundreds of millions of sites published with Flash content.
I'm actually still not clear on what the problem you're experiencing is. All software running on your machine that's actively processing something is going to use a non-zero percentage of CPU time. The symptoms you describe indicate that Flash consumes 5% of the CPU, which is totally reasonable. I'm guessing that I don't have the complete story.

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High CPU with AFP & SMB

I have setup a 2.3DP XServer running Tiger/1047 and it seems to be working fine. This is a stand alone box with accounts imported from our main 2.0 SP XServer running Panther/1039 (both are stand alone). Most of these accounts were taken from a 10.1.5 server (without any issues).
For some odd reason, I am seeing extremely high CPU utilization for the users connection. Sometimes one users will cause AFP (root) to run at upwards of 90% CPU (using all of one CPU). SMB is similar - we have one remote user connecting this way.
The Tiger server went into production (pre-production at this point) as 10.4.7 and has only been rebooted once (which is really too much, but I digress). I have stoped and started AFP, but its still going crazy hogging the CPU. I have not seen anything like this on our 10.3.9 box (even when it was 10.3.7).
The Tiger box has the following services running:
AFP
Software Update (but not functioning yet ...)
Web
Windows (SMB)
The only other things that come to mind is one of the shares (there are only 3) is self mounted on the servers desktop over "SMB" (though I'm told its not exactly like mounting a remote SMB volume).
The system have the PCI video card (Radeon) but is not running with monitor ...
and I'm am showing the following errors
Aug 31 03:43:14 4ql5d91 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly
Aug 31 04:13:14 4ql5d91 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: more than one name for the primary IP address, unable to pick one
we have the DNS setup for two domains ... also the random promp "4ql5d91" is annoying (I've seen this in OS X client frequently, but have not shown it to cause any problem).
Any ideas as to how to resolve the performance issue?
thx

I have setup a 2.3DP XServer running Tiger/1047 and it seems to be working fine. This is a stand alone box with accounts imported from our main 2.0 SP XServer running Panther/1039 (both are stand alone). Most of these accounts were taken from a 10.1.5 server (without any issues).
For some odd reason, I am seeing extremely high CPU utilization for the users connection. Sometimes one users will cause AFP (root) to run at upwards of 90% CPU (using all of one CPU). SMB is similar - we have one remote user connecting this way.
The Tiger server went into production (pre-production at this point) as 10.4.7 and has only been rebooted once (which is really too much, but I digress). I have stoped and started AFP, but its still going crazy hogging the CPU. I have not seen anything like this on our 10.3.9 box (even when it was 10.3.7).
The Tiger box has the following services running:
AFP
Software Update (but not functioning yet ...)
Web
Windows (SMB)
The only other things that come to mind is one of the shares (there are only 3) is self mounted on the servers desktop over "SMB" (though I'm told its not exactly like mounting a remote SMB volume).
The system have the PCI video card (Radeon) but is not running with monitor ...
and I'm am showing the following errors
Aug 31 03:43:14 4ql5d91 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly
Aug 31 04:13:14 4ql5d91 servermgrd: servermgr_dns: more than one name for the primary IP address, unable to pick one
we have the DNS setup for two domains ... also the random promp "4ql5d91" is annoying (I've seen this in OS X client frequently, but have not shown it to cause any problem).
Any ideas as to how to resolve the performance issue?
thx

Plugin container bug with flash video.

Using latest portable FF4 and latest flash plugin, While playing flash videos the "plugin container" module of FF starts using up 100% cpu and whole computer is bogged down. even after closeing the page with the flash video the plugin container module sometimes stays stuck at 100% cpu. If I close it, the flash plugin crashes and I would have to restart FF to get workin again. This has happened with past releases of FF and flash also, so updating is not working for me. Have sent crash reports many time now..

That can be caused by clearing the cookies via "Clear Recent History".
* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
* Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history" > [X] Clear history when Firefox closes > Settings
* Firefox > History > Clear Recent History
* Tools > Clear Recent History
If you use "Clear Recent History" to clear the cookies then Firefox also tries to clear the cookies from plugins like Flash (LSO) and starts a plugin-container process for each plugin and that can add extra time and can cause an unresponsive script error to appear.

Problem with Flash video/dropdowns in Mozilla

Am trying to add a flash video to a webpage using a
Dreamweaver extension called Active Slideshow Pro by DMXZone.
The page can be viewed: www.faith.org.uk/Testindex.html
In IE7 it works fine. The video shows and the dropdowns of
the menu work correctly.
In Mozilla Firefox the video works but the dropdowns do not
show.
If I remove the block of coding which is generated by the
DMXZone extension:
<object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
width="514" height="129" id="testshow" align="middle">
<param name="FlashVars"
value="xmlFile=testshow.xml&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC"
/>
<param name="movie" value="slideshowpro.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="best" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<embed src="slideshowpro.swf" id="testshow"
wmode="transparent" quality="best"
flashvars="xmlFile=testshow.xml&preloaderBackColor=0x0099FF&preloaderBorderColor=0xCCCCCC "
scale="noscale" bgcolor="#000000"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="514" height="129"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
</object>
The page works in both browsers and the menu dropdowns appear
correctly.
I would be most grateful for anyone's advice on this.

A discussion with Adobe support lends the idea that MPEG
layer 4 might be an issue. That since these videos come from DVD
perhaps encoded with MPEG layer 4 that that could be the reason tha
all of them have this problem. (Some were done using AVI - I have
to check and see if that makes a difference)
BUT
According to the PDF from Adobe Design - Flash Video Encoder
Wizard - By Tom Green and Jordan L. Chilcott
Flash should be able to convert an MPEG4 file. (Well it does
but they all stop after 30 sec.) Now how do I solve this problem?
All the videos still stop after 30 sec.s
quote snip snip>>
Flash Video Encoder Wizard
By Tom Green and Jordan L. Chilcott
The first thing you have to understand about the use of video
in Flash® is the original
video must be converted to a format Flash can read. This
format is FLV (Flash Video)
and you can either use Flash, the Flash Video Encoder, or
third-party software to
create the FLV file. If you use video-editing software such
as Adobe® After Effects®,
you can also export the file as a FLV file. If you are a
Dreamweaver® user, the current
version of Dreamweaver—Dreamweaver 8—contains a
feature that allows you to add
an FLV at the click of a button.
The purpose of the Encoder, therefore, is to convert the
video file to the FLV format.
When you installed Flash Professional 8, the Flash Video
Encoder application was
also installed on your machine. If you also have QuickTime,
Adobe After Effects,
Avid Studio, or Final Cut Pro installed on your machine,
they, too, were given the
capability to use the Encoder when it was installed.
If you will be converting a video to the FLV format, the
video must be in one of
these formats:
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• MOV—QuickTime 4 or later
• MPEG—Motion Picture Experts Group

Problem with Flash video in webpage

I've encoded a number of videos in the FLV format(using both
Flash Video encoder and Quicktime), using standard preset settings,
inserted in webpage using dreamweaver standard - Insert Media -
Flash Video. When I try to play the videos, online or testing in
browser, the video does not play the whole way through. It'll play
15 sec into the video and then stop, although it seems to have some
of the rest of the video if you play around with the controller.
I've looked on the Flash encoding forum (other people have the same
problem) and looked on the site for more info but cannot find
any.

Have you checked to see if the FLV is the same size on the
server as your
local copy?
Nancy Gill
Adobe Community Expert
Author: Dreamweaver 8 e-book for the DMX Zone
Co-Author: Dreamweaver MX: Instant Troubleshooter (August,
2003)
Technical Editor: Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual,
DMX 2004: The Complete Reference, DMX 2004: A Beginner's
Guide
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"malton05" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f6e7ke$dig$[email protected]..
> I've encoded a number of videos in the FLV format(using
both Flash Video
> encoder and Quicktime), using standard preset settings,
inserted in
> webpage
> using dreamweaver standard - Insert Media - Flash Video.
When I try to
> play the
> videos, online or testing in browser, the video does not
play the whole
> way
> through. It'll play 15 sec into the video and then stop,
although it seems
> to
> have some of the rest of the video if you play around
with the controller.
> I've
> looked on the Flash encoding forum (other people have
the same problem)
> and
> looked on the site for more info but cannot find any.
>

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