floppingfish

I watched a few shows and that seems to have resolved it. THANKS!!

I looked into the settings, located and turned on hardware acceleration. I tried watching a show this morning and it worked. I left the show going while I did some chores and, unfortunately, when I came back to it the program was locked up. I'll try it again tonight (and look into what 'hardware acceleration' means ) :-)

Thanks!

It does make more sense, thanks. I will check the player settings tonight, especially around hardware acceleration. Thanks again.

Thanks for your thoughts, but I'm sorry I am a noob, and I don't understand most of your comments.

I'm streaming shows on Stremio, I select 1080p feeds and each has latency. I checked the System Monitor and the CPU is pegged at 100%. As I understand it the graphics are integrated with the CPU. My hope was that if I got a decent video card (such as AMD Radeon RX 550) that would take enough of the load to eliminate the lag. Is this a good approach or is this pc just too old?

damn right

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it didn't show up using df

WD Blue SSD drive in a removable case. I'll try it another machine.

Same issue on a different machine :-(

Some more

                          usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd

[211953.700655] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211979.236790] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211979.249917] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=152s [211979.249940] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 08 00 [211979.249950] blk_print_req_error: 752 callbacks suppressed [211979.249959] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2048 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [211979.249982] buffer_io_error: 21278 callbacks suppressed [211979.249988] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 0, lost async page write [212004.768420] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [212030.306531] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd

So far it is showing

usb 2-4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211819.412449] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2537, idProduct=1068, bcdDevice= 1.00 [211819.412468] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [211819.412477] usb 2-4: Product: NS1068 [211819.412484] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Norelsys [211819.412491] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0123456789ABCDE [211819.415262] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [211819.415608] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2537 pid 1068: 800000 [211819.415722] scsi host1: usb-storage 2-4:1.0 [211821.975537] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WD Blue SA510 2. 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [211821.976781] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [211821.985294] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) [211821.985686] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [211821.985704] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [211821.986069] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [211822.033052] sdb: sdb1 [211822.034239] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [211851.555550] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211877.091031] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211902.626842] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd

I was first getting an error about my Fing agent. I uninstalled the Fing snap and now I am getting:

Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume Error mounting /dev/sdb1/ at...: can't read superblock on /dev/sdb1/

Thanks!

Looks great!

I'm using Linux Mint for my daily driver for about 5 years. It works great with no ads!! I'm not a gamer and Libre Office works well for me so no significant problems with software. I also do some basic python programming on it. The more complex command line stuff takes a while to figure out but Mint has been great!