When viewing LOST episodes in 2009 on the ABC website; the video frames did not lock up. But, in 2010 or late 2009 they changed their streaming video player to the one that is similar to what Youtube.com uses to play its videos and now the streaming video can become locked-up(streaming video that freezes playback randomly). I think it might be something to do with the mouse cursor(I use a PS/2 Logitech Trackman Marble FX ca.1997 - trackball pointer) disappearing or when the video switches layers. The reason I think that this may be the case is because the mouse cursor would remain on the screen and not disappear when viewing the online video using the 2009 ABC player. Another thing that was difference between the 2009 ABC players to the Youtube.com player was its ability to quickly show the video in low quality(SD) first and then switch to high quality(HD 720P I think) automatically if the bandwidth was available. About 98%(in about 1-2 videos out of about 100 the HD quality of the video dropped to SD quality for about 2-5 mins on and off) of the time the video stayed in the HD quality range. The 2009 ABC streaming video player was the best online player that I've ever had the pleasure of using.
Some of my system Specs are:
CPU - P4D(desktop) 3.6Ghz
Motherboard - AsRock Conroe865PE (865PE)
Soundcard - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum or Realtek ALC850 7.1 channel audio CODEC (Conroe865PE)
Videocard - HIS HD 4670 IceQ Native HDMI 1GB (128bit) DDR3 AGP
Trackball - PS/2 Logitech Marble FX ca.1997
RAM - 4GB
PCI Latency = 96
AGP Latency = 96
This has happened on other systems with similar(as in a different AGP videocard with the motherboards' on-board soundcard enabled) and on newer type computer systems local video playback(MediaPlayer .wmv or QuickTime .mov video files) works fine. It would great if ABC brought back the player that they use in 2009 and if Adobe or Google could make a player with the same reliability too.
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