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marbik
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December 8, 2013
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Flash player stutters for 1 second then continues normally

  • December 8, 2013
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Hi all,

Problem is very weird. I have Mozilla Firefox, IE, latest flash (11.9), Win 8.1 All latest updates. Online video playback with flash player stutters in a very weird way - even if video is fully downloaded it stutters for a second irregulary and then continues normally as if nothing happen. This stutter is similar like someone just opened something on a slow hdd and thus makes the flash playback stutter for just a second (even though i have an ssd that is very fast; rest of computers is i7, r9 280x, so a fast and modern computer). This happens in irregular intervals on both browsers. Video is watchable but this is very annoying. I tried reinstalling just about everything except the OS itself. I disabled hardware acceleration and set cash to unlimited in flash settings, still nothing. This happens with youtube as well as all other flash video in both browsers. Ofcourse other video playback is fine (.avi, .mp4 etc). It can happen 5 times in 5 minutes, and than nothing for half an hour and then starts again.

Anyone else had a similar problem?

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    Correct answer TenshiTec

    I have the same problem. It just happen only with Windows 8.1. My System: Core i7-3770, 16 GB Ram, 256 GB SSD and a stable VDSL2 25 Mbit internet connection. System is up to date. Newest flash version is also installed: 11.9.900.170.

    To temporary solve the problem, i go to task manager under details and set the cpu affinity for FlashPlayerPlugin_11_9_900_170.exe to 1 core.

    With Flash Version 11.5 the problem is gone, but it's a old (unsave) version of flash.

    Google Chrome is the only browser without this problem.

    I tried all. No problems with Windows 7 and Windows 8.0. It's only under Windows 8.1.

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    TiesTorN
    TiesTorN
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2014

    I have exactly the same problem... There was no problem while I was using W7, switched to W8.1 last week and this problem occured. Very annoying for sure.

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    iJustWantMyShitToWork
    Participant
    September 19, 2014

    Setting flash process to one core helps a bit, but this is still an wild bug that adobe hasn't addressed. How many more users have to complain?? Or has Adobe given up??

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    S3ndG
    Known Participant
    September 17, 2014

    So Adobe, please answer to this : are you working on a fix for the Firefox bug?

    Can we expect for a solution in the next weeks ?

    Please answer something.

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    S3ndG
    Known Participant
    September 9, 2014

    The update 15.0.0.152 didn't fix the stuttering issue for me, I still have video lags in this one for example :

    http://youtu.be/fZOCU7Rr5Vg

    (after 10 min of playing)

    I'm using Firefox 32.

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    Anonymous
    September 7, 2014

    None of your fixes worked for me.

    I tried a fresh windows 8.1 install but it didn't fix anything. It had the 1 second video lags immediately.

    Fortunately, I found a 100% working solution (at least for me)

    I downloaded Cyberfox (open source)

    https://8pecxstudios.com/cyberfox-web-browser

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    S3ndG
    Known Participant
    September 4, 2014

    Is there someone who has tested beta version of flash player with Firefox (flash player 15)?

    Does it fix the issue?

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    S3ndG
    Known Participant
    August 1, 2014

    When using only one core to avoid stuttering issue, I've noticed that the video playback is a bit disjointed.

    Adobe, I'll never buy one of your product. You're too useless with this flash player bug.

    socos2
    socos2
    Participant
    July 22, 2014

    Well the pausing came back.  I will try the CPU affinity thing next.

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    Anonymous
    July 27, 2014

    Were anyone able to find out, whats the common hardware causing this issue, doesn't look like everyone has this problem.. i had this exact same issue and opened a new thread before reading this one.. cpu affinity seems to be the temp fix ... Video freeze every few minutes for 2 or 3 seconds .. if we could find out that common hardware maybe it will be helpful for the adobe team.

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    Anonymous
    July 28, 2014

    ya but do u experience video becoming pixelated problems?

    Btw i think the common system having problems would be Win8.1 64bit OS

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    Anonymous
    July 19, 2014

    Actually me too. But do u also have video becoming pixelated problems? And it also only happens on Win8.1.

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    S3ndG
    Known Participant
    July 18, 2014

    Remember to keep voting for the filed bug here : Bug#3692645 - Video playback stutters/judders

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