Jan142011

How can I cure flash videos that freeze after a few seconds in Chrome?

Gordon asks:

Every flash (YouTube) video freezes after a few seconds in Chrome. Switching to IE rendering works, but they won’t run in Chrome. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled both Chrome and Flash (even though Flash is built into Chrome) with no luck. Must be a conflict with something else.

Anyone know a fix?

Dell Latitude D610 running Windows XP mostly as a web client. Very few applications on it. Avira antivirus. Spyware scans and registry maintenance using Advanced System Optimizer.



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Mike

January 14, 2011

(1) try deleting the Internet Cache within Chrome

Options > Detail > Clear Browsing Data
select Clear History, Empty the Cache, delete Cookies
and set period to Everything

(2) Switch the Flash plugin used within Chrome

open a new tab and enter “about:plugins” as address
if it says “Flash (2 files)” click on details to few both versions used by Chrome
try deactivating the one with the higher priority (=lower number for Priority)

Other than that please post the versions of both Chrome and Flash Plugin(s) you are running

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Anonymous

January 15, 2011

Hi
Did you installed Adobe shockwave player plugin?
Update your Java.
Sometime Kaspersky do this. How to fix without disabling the web protection :

Go to the web protection tab, then click on “configure”, click on “customize”, then change the traffic scan method from “buffering scan” to “streaming scan”.

Now close and open google chrome, and it should work fine.

also later you can add to the trusted zone Chrome or not scan the port 80. or disable the antivirus.

sometimes pluggins can do some damage, Just uninstall Google Web Accelerator

Some says its related with hardware acceleration. Disabling then we’ll never watch HD movies on YT.

1. open youtube
2. start playing anything in normal mode
3. right click on youtube screen itself
4. a dialog box will pop up — it will say:
__________________________________________________ _____
Adobe Flash Player Settings
Privacy
Allow s.ytimg.com to access your camera and microphone
__ Allow __Deny
__ Remember __Advanced (goes to Adobe web site)
__________________________________________________ ___

BUT….if you look under all that there are 5 icons, so

6. click far LEFT icon
7. it will say

__________________________________________________ _____
Adobe Flash Player Settings
Display

_X_ Enable hardware acceleration
__________________________________________________ ___

7. UNclick that checkbox
8. hit close button

That should do it!

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Aibek

January 25, 2011

Hey Gordon,

Did you manage to find the cause of the problem? What above the recommendations above? Please let us know.

Aibek

Gordon

Never did and just saw and tried the suggestions above – except the Kaspersky-related ones. No luck. I don’t have Kapersky – I’m using Windows Security Essentials I’m about to reinstall XP – ugh! It’s my wife’s machine and she doesn’t want a new computer. Go figure!

Chrome is version 16.0.912.63 m
Flash is 
Description:Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
Version:11,1,102,55
Thanks for the input.
Gordon

December 24, 2011