Flash videos all of a sudden stop playing after a few seconds

Hi

Try starting CMD.exe in the Windows\System32\ directory as admin and type ipconfig /flushdns

helped at my end.

Jan

Hello,

I do have a workaround for this. Hope it helps:

• go to www.youtube.com/html5
• click on 'request the html5 player'
• the page should reload and its done. Go back to youtube.com and will play all your favorite videos.
• I did notice that you may have to do this every time you close and open the browser

Not sure what all is causing this.  But here is my issue and what worked for me.

Most videos I played would give me about 30 seconds of video and then green screen with the cursor quickly skipping through giving little screeches periodically as it went by.  My sound card was fine as I was getting audio.  HTML5 worked fine.

I'm not sure what in this list fixed the issue, but here is all the steps I took.  (mostly by researching of others on this and other forum) One of these, or a combination of these things worked.

• I deactivated Hardware acceleration in the browser and in the Flash settings
• increased the local storage setting.  (Automatically went back and had no bearing on the issue.)
• I updated the video card driver.
• Restarted my computer.
• Ran the latest CCleaner to clean out any old temporary files, cache, and the like
• Then ran the CCleaner Registry Cleaner
• Disabled some startup programs that were unnecessary (also with CCleaner).

Somehow, that combination seemed to work with the issue stated above.  I have a feeling every issue mentioned is different, and may not work for yours, but at this point, its sure worth a shot.

Hope this helps

Just built a new system from scratch yesterday,  Same problem with firefox.

Simplest fix for me?  Don't use Adobe Shockwave's latest download.  I backed down to the last one from July at this website.  Everything works fine.

Old and New Version of Shockwave Player Download - OldApps.com

Disclaimer: I am a Google Chrome user, and use Windows 8 (don't hate!).

Solving: How to keep Flash Player and kick out the pesky 2 second freeze bug ( oooooh, ahhhhh)

OK LET ME HELP YOU ALL OUT: I HAVE HAD THE PROBLEM FOR A MONTH NOW.....I DID NOT CARE UNTIL IT SLOWED DOWN ALL MY INTERNET ACTIVITIES

Activities slowed:

-Browsing...just about anything

-Playing games via chrome

-Videos would stop after 2 seconds and I would just be inching closer to the screen questioning why this would happen; facebook, youtube, just about anything that had video.

What really bugged be was my browsing speed so I investigated to see I was not alone on the 2 second video freeze...I did not bother to read rubbish on how to fix it because I like to do it on my own, but seeing all the forums I would say....a lot of people need my help.

Resolutions:

Go to the Chrome address, www., webpage, whatever bar and type this "chrome://plugins"

yes, ah, look at what I have highlighted "Adobe Flash Player"

NOW what you people who have issues probably have is "Adobe Flash Player(2)"

Have no fear!

Why this is happening? Well Chrome uses Flash within each websites as you browse, so if you have two of the same instances"(2)" running at the same time, Chrome gets confuses and in return CRASHES!

The answer is simple, do NOT simply "Disable" Adobe Flash, because well...we want to keep it and work out the bugs right?  right!

1. disabling will do nothing

2. its a computer and we are man, man must win

3. like i said its a computer, and like all computers, all problems have a solution

THE FIX: It is simple really in the past do you all recall physically installing an Adobe Flash update? The answer should be YES, and why you should not of done this is because lovely Google Chrome updates Adobe Flash for us AUTOMATICALLY! SO INT HE FUTURE LET THE SOFTWARE DO ITS WORK AND AUTO UPDATE TO STOP MAKING YOUR LIFE MORE DIFFICULT!

Windows 8: Go To Search<Control Panel<Uninstall a Program<Type is Adobe Flash<DELETE ALL VERSIONS OF Adobe Flash

As you can see, I have Searched Adobe Flash, and I have no more versions left on my computer because I deleted them all.
Doing this will delete any extra versions of Adobe Flash off of Google Chrome! Instead of it saying "Adobe Flash(2)" It should just read "Adobe Flash - version blah blah blah(most up to date version that CHROME UPDATES FOR YOU AUTOMATICALLY SO DO NOT EVER THINK ABOUT DOING IT AGAIN!"

You ask what does this do? It does not confuse your browser anymore, and it can think more clearly using only one Adobe Flash at a time.

What to do now?

Open up YouTube and watch everything you can, and literally have a big weight off your shoulders when everything literally INSTANTLY LOAD WOOOOOOHOOO!

If this does not work, try to restart blah blah blah, should work.

SUMMARY: DELETE ADOBE FLASH FROM YOUR COMPUTER FROM "Search<Control Panel< Uninstall a Program<Search "Adobe Flash"<Delete all versions from computer"

hope this helps, cuz it worked for me!

peace

`rick

Here it is mid-November 2014, and I contracted this problem for the first time this morning.  Some videos play for about 2 seconds, some won't play at all.  I see this is a 2 year old problem; I can't guess why I should suddenly begin to have this trouble.  I tried all the above solutions that I could understand.  So what's the best workaround?

Mine as well I get error message every time I try to play on youtube. I must remove Flash Player then re download it to play games..

Found a fix for me.  Just uninstalled the youtube downloader plug-in and the ad block plus login.  Seems to have done the trick

I am now having this issue.  I see some people have had it for the past 2 years with no fix?  Has anyone figured this out or has Adobe come up with answer?  My youtube browers plays for a sec then goes to error, unless it is a part of a playlist.  In that case, it plays for a sec and jumps to the next video,

Fixes please!

Still same problem on Ubuntu 13.10 FF29