Posted on 04/12/2008 3:41:14 PM PDT by Timeout
I'm running IE on VISTA with Adobe Flash Player. The only consistent problem I have is videos. They freeze up. Right now I'm trying to watch my nephew playing Amen Corner at the Masters and it's driving me CRAZY!
Earlier, I uninstalled Flash Player and reinstalled. Didn't help a bit.
Anyone have any suggestions?! Thx
Sigh.
I was afraid you’d say that.
If it plays 2 seconds & stops it’s probably from a recent Flash update. Had that problem yesterday. I did a system restore to fix it. There’s bound to be a better way but for now it works. Couldn’t even play a youtube video. Royal pain. Hope you find the problem.
Vista sucks. We have it on some of our computers at the office. If this the best Microsoft can come up with my next computer will be a mac.
IIRC, that Flash update did something that tripped the paranoid Vista DRM. Something about streaming data too fast making it get suspicious, I believe.
Thanks. But that one does the same thing.
Plays about 2 seconds, then rebuffers for 3 or 4 minutes.
2 more seconds....
Sue:
I wouldn’t know where to restore to...it’s been doing this for ages.
Also, I tried installing the latest Adobe Flash Player and it didn't actually put the latest plugin into the folder, leaving the last one there. You may need to confirm you have the latest in place, despite what the moving “F” shows on Adobe's site.
One way to do this is through a freeware program from an online security organization called Secunia. The utility is here:
www.secunia.com
Click under the Announcement area for the tester. It will identify many programs with needed updates and patches. It's primarily meant for security problems, but the links it gives are right to the needed downloads and the folders in which it finds the outdated files can pop right up by pressing on the filer icon to the right of the problem file.
Can you delete Adobe Flash and use another media player, like WMP?
Tech PING! Another Vista problem, maybe someone can help him.
As an alternative, you might try a standalone player.
I really like Sothink FLV Player because its GUI interface is very similar to Media Player Classic and MS Player Classic skin.
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/flv-player/
And, it is free.
I have vista, and my camera programs don’t work, no matter what I do.
Sigh.
Things seem to play OK in WMP. But most videos want to utilize the Adobe. I’ve tried right clicking their link to see if I could open in WMP, but it doesn’t give me that option.
Will it play in WMP if I uninstall Adobe?
At that secunia site, I see the Announcements area. But I noticed just above that there’s a link specific to Adobe.
Should I try the Adobe?
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PS: I don’t know if this helps, but someone sent me to this movie...which I really didn’t care about watching....and of course it plays beautifully. :(
Does it have something to do with the player on that site? I don’t understand this.
whatever you do don’t tell swordmaker.
I would happily use another player. Especially after Adobe’s been sucha pain.
If I switch, will the videos that have been wanting to load on Adobe...will they open on the new player. (Sorry to be dense, but I don’t know how this stuff works)
Just as an update:
He’s now finished 18-—alone in 6th place. Dang, I wish I could have watched him.
Sure will appreciate it if I can get it fixed for watching tomorrow’s round.
Click on the link where it says “Join the Beta Test” and let that install and run. It does a great job of assuring you have the most bug-free versions of all of your software.
Try this free program:
http://www.videolan.org/
Works great on pretty much every kind of video file there is out there!
Well, I do not use Adobe at all and I watch video feeds all the time. I have WMP and Quicktime, but generally when I click on a video link, it just automatically plays, like the link I gave you earlier.
It’s asking me to register...wants me to enter “host” and “hosts you are responsible for”. Won’t let me continue without those.
Sorry...the above refers to securia
Actually, the personal edition is under the link above that program mention.
Just go here to this page instead:
https://psi.secunia.com/?language=English
You want the one on the left, the personal edition. The other is for network guys at work trying to find other computers with problems, as well. The personal is completely free.
Why not? Because he'll tell Timeout to get a Mac?
Polybius already told him to get XP.
Next ShadowAce will tell him to get Ubuntu...
Sorry about that. They changed their page and I assumed that was for the personal edition, still. It was for their network version.
You don’t have to mention anything for the personal edition, but the network one will be charged for once out of beta while the personal one won’t be. The network one is more than you need.
Again, sorry about that. Just cancel the install, letting it uninstall the network version and then go to the area I mentioned in the post just a moment ago.
https://psi.secunia.com/?language=English
The one on the left, the personal edition, is what you want.
The best advice I can give you is...next time buy a computer that actually works together with software and the internet...buy a Mac. In the meantime...keep fighting.
Nah. I learned a while ago that it would be useless.
Besides, I've never used Ubuntu. :)
Dang, I should have known that. I started to write "ShadowAce will tell him to get Linux" but thought that sounded too generic.
Sorry 'bout that, Chief. Okay, these days, what -is- your flavor of choice?
Get a Mac.
LOL! I use Fedora 8. I’m hoping to upgrade to Fedora 9 in a few weeks when it is released.
IT department I work in has banned Vista from all work computers company wide.
How are the updates coming along?
Ah, so. I'm at FC4, seems like I'm always a few releases/years behind. (Used Win2K on my Win boxes until 2006. Hell, I used RedHat8 until recently on a couple of Samba fileservers I set up in 2003. Still running Tiger on my Macs. Vista can bite me.)
Did Fedora ever replace the "Install Everything" option they removed after FC4? I liked using that -- never had any missing-dependency issues, and disk space is cheap.
OK, it’s running. I’m off to dinner...will look at results when I get back. Thanks.
I may also add memory before going much farther.
No, but they categorized everything into three checkboxes (at a top-level menu--you can dig farther down), so it's not difficult to do.
vista bump
If it’s a Flash player problem, instead of doing a rollback, you could try doing an uninstall and reinstalling with an older version. Old versions 2-9 available here: http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=flashp
What are they doing about new purchases, going to Dell / white boxing in house?
Thanks for the link. I’m still running the secunia program. Will try that if it doesn’t help. I’ll be back in a couple of hours.
Hey, I’ve STILL got W2k on some low resource machines at the Thinking hacienda! All other Win-boxes at XP, no Vista to be found. I’m working, as time allows, at getting used to Linux, and may roll that out to at least the 2k boxes if I can get comfortable with it.
Yep! I just re-commissioned an old c.2001 Sony Vaio laptop with a Pentium3 and 256MB of RAM, for remote use over DSL. Win2K works fine at that. Low-resource indeed -- I remember running 2K/SP4 in 128MB successfully not long ago, albeit with older version of the applications.
> All other Win-boxes at XP, no Vista to be found. I’m working, as time allows, at getting used to Linux, and may roll that out to at least the 2k boxes if I can get comfortable with it.
Have fun! Linux is great, but it -is- a different mindset from Windows in some important ways, that differ from person to person.
I strongly suggest that you get hold of VMware (e.g. the free VMware-Server for Linux), and make VMs of your Win2K, so that when the time comes that you just -have- to run a Windows-only application, you can do so within Linux. It's the best of both worlds.
Excellent idea. I do a lot of virtualization, mostly with Virtual PC on winboxes, but do have and use VMWare as well. (Even bochs). As it is, those boxes are used by other family members for surfing and working online (in Firefox anyway) so shifting to Linux shouldn’t be too big a jump. I just want to make sure I’m up to the task of administering them before I do.
You know what they say, once you go Mac...you never go back :-)
I don’t know — I like my computers large and black. LOL
On another note, I like my coffee like I like my women — bitter.
Vista is a curse. Gates should be thrown in jail for taking people’s money under the false pretense that he has a working product.
Our next computer will be an Apple.
=;^)
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