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Videos Freezing After 2 Seconds
Posted by HokieTux on January 22, 2009 in Hacks
Two work-arounds in one day!
Today, my Flash player seemed to stop working while trying to watch a YouTube video. It would play two seconds (without audio), and then freeze. If I skipped ahead in the video, it would simply play the next two seconds (again, without audio), and freeze.
Googling around, there are a bunch of fixes including re-installing Firefox, deleting & re-installing Flash, and a few others even more drastic including re-installing all media codecs.
I’m still not sure what the problem is, but I think it is in Firefox. All I did to fix it was completely close firefox (I even issued a $ sudo pkill firefox to make sure), reopen Firefox, and told it NOT to reload tabs. Sure enough, video playback was fixed.
If anyone has more information as to what is causing this, please post it!
Firefox version: 3.0.5
Cheers!
