[Torx]

this problem has always plagued me as well.. its random so i chalked it up to it being a youtube website problem.

some days i cant load and watch a youtube video at all, and some days its fine.

[Goofus Maximus]

Do any of you use NoScript? If you do, have you allowed ytimages? The only problems I had with youtube was prior to allowing ytimages domain, and I've not had any problems with flash in general with FF2.0... But then, I have an old single-core system, while everyone has newer dual-core systems, so they might be having some multi-thread problem that I don't have.

[ventsy]

I just got new lenovo think pad r61i with Windows XP professionals SP2. I installed the latest version of Firefox and Flashplayer.
The youtube videos load completely but play only for 2 seconds. It seems to be bug with firefox/flash.

[zapita]

Originally Posted by unfalse

i resolved this issue by downgrading... stuff works now in all my browsers.

Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes

I downgraded my flash player to 9,0,45,0, and video works again.

yhank you very much, that worked for me

[yardley]

Originally Posted by sims

Hay Guys!

Having problems with Firefox and watching any youtube video's, or any embedded video's for that matter. this happens weither I try and watch the embedded video or go directly to the site.

They work fine well using IE, this is only firefox that is effected. I’ve only had my computer for a couple weeks, I first noticed the issue after installing the combined community codex pack with Media player classic, but even after uninstalling all of it the problem persists.

I'm having the same problem. No flash video will play on my system. I've tried several of the suggestions on this thread. None helped. IE7 and Firefox both have the problem. Deleting files form the flash directories didn't help. Downgrading flash, reinstalling flash, nothing.

Please post any more suggestions you can think of. I'm at a loss except for a total reinstall of windows at this point.

[Goofus Maximus]

I still wonder about the systems that have this problem, and how they compare against those who don't. Is it a multi-core bug in the plugin? A flaw in multimedia extension coding?

[tweakmonkey]

I don't know. I have a dual core AMD (Opteron) if that helps narrow anything down. I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2. The problem still comes back for me once a week or so, but I simply end the task and it goes away and comes back a week or so later. I'm not too worried about it since the quick fix is so easy and the problem's pretty rare.

I watch a LOT of Flash videos... probably 100+ each day. Often times I'll have 10 or more tabs open with videos in most of them while I update my car videos site.

[suzydymna]

I have had this problem intermittently on my Sony Viao SZ4X, this became problem then became permanent. It seems to be a problem with the way the Flash plugin interacts with Firefox as all Flash videos were affrected on all sites. I have upgraded to Firefox 3b4 and so far the problem has resolved itself.

xx
Suzy

[suzydymna]

Originally Posted by suzydymna

I have had this problem intermittently on my Sony Viao SZ4X, this became problem then became permanent. It seems to be a problem with the way the Flash plugin interacts with Firefox as all Flash videos were affrected on all sites. I have upgraded to Firefox 3b4 and so far the problem has resolved itself.

xx
Suzy

woops...this worked for a few hours but now the same problem afflicts Firefox 3b4

[Jackalope]

I had this problem last week. I just reinstalled Flash, and so far no problems
Firefox 3.0B4
flash 9,0,115,0

[j0k3r]

Originally Posted by Jackalope

I had this problem last week. I just reinstalled Flash, and so far no problems
Firefox 3.0B4
flash 9,0,115,0

The beta seems to fix the problem as well. I have been running b4 for a while now with no problems. I still don't know if the problem is in Firefox's rendering engine or Flash.

[MaJoR_C]

This has been a problem i started having like a month ago. Firefox videos work fine.... but then they just all stop after 2 seconds. Not just youtube.... but all flash videos.

They work in IE. Its definetly a flash/firefox issue. When i reboot or just simply restart firefox it works again for a little bit.

I think the issue is with cache. im gonna try a few things and post back if i find a solution.

[sims]

this is an ongoing problem I still have aswell, I've basically just become accustom to using IE for video's, but I'd still like to figure out what the problem is.

[MaJoR_C]

I have this same problem on a windows vista laptop i just bought. Its definitely a problem with firefox and flash. I dont wanna downgrade my flash. Some people said that worked for them.

Thats a total pain in the ass. I tried increasing the cache. nothing helps.

Someone said on some forums that the issue is that there is a missing DLL file in mozilla that flash fails to install or put in the right place which causes the traffic jam of data.

I dont know much about that or how to find it... but maybe that will put people who know about that on the right direction.

[j0k3r]

Just install beta 5, it fixes the problem.

[threedsnack]

Yeah I've got the same issue, and it seems to be getting worse. At first, a couple months ago, I could just restart firefox and the issue was solved temporarily. So then a few weeks after that, that didn't work anymore, so I turned to restarting the computer every single time, and it worked temporarily as well. But now YouTube/Blogger videos (apparently flash videos) don't play ever. Well I'll take that back, they play for maybe 1 second without sound, and then stop. I've tried all of the things yall listed and none of them work.

Any other suggestions would be great guys! I really would hate to have to use IE, but I think that I just might have to for now on...

[threedsnack]

Well, I don't have a solution, but thanks to some other forum thread out there in webworld I have read that if you first play a flash video (that plays), then pause it anytime before it finishes, and then minimize it, you can watch all the videos you want the rest of the day, so long as that one first video is still paused.

When will this problem be resolved for real tho!!!??

[sims]

i upgraded to FF3 beta 5 a couple days ago, within a few days of upgrading the problem is back.

IE works fine.

[gB dAvId x]

Use IE?

[reebow]

It took me a long time to find a fix for this but I've found one from another site that worked. Let me note that I tried Firefox beta and I even reinstalled windows at one point and it did not fix the problem. What did fix the problem was disabling java. Tools->Options->Content->Uncheck "Enable Java", and then restart Firefox for good measure. Haven't had one video freeze since this change.