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

Report · Aug 04, 2012

Hello Adobe Community,

As of this morning I have been unable to play flash videos, through youtube for example, as they stop playing after a few seconds. This seems to be random as in 2-3 seconds, 5 seconds, or up to 11. Not sure why it is this morning that I am having issues and I can't explain it. It's not just Youtube either.

I have tried resetting the router, checking to make sure it's on it's latest firmware (it is), disabling hardware exceleration, and other things. Do you guys have any suggestions? This happened on another computer of mine at work and I thought i fixed the problem there by disabling hardware excelleration.

Thanks for your help!

Report · Dec 19, 2014

Just this morning my machine has started this: no sound at all, and Youtube videos stopping at 11 seconds. I noticed startup was a little longer than usual with a blank grey screen, then a 'Please wait ...', then the normal startup resumed.

The key thing might be that I installed a new USB keyboard before startup - no software required, just a bog standard USB keyboard. I have put the previous one back in, but it's not fixed any of this; coincidence maybe - I can see threads going back two years talking about the Youtube problem of videos stopping at 11 seconds, and other intervals.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Flash, to no effect. I have a Focusrite Saffire6 USB - all settings seem fine, but no sound, from anywhere. It's all been working fine, for months, right up to this morning. I'm not convinced a new keyboard would cause a stop for all Youtube videos at 11 secs - doesn't make any sense.

This is Win64 8.1.

Report · Dec 19, 2014

Running CCleaner, Nortons, restarting, unplugging and plugging the keyboard, and importantly uninstalling and reinstalling Flash (several times until it worked) seems to have finally beaten it.

Not confident about where the root of the problem lay, but back in action for now.

Report · Feb 04, 2015

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

Report · Feb 09, 2015

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

Report · May 14, 2015

Hi

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

helped at my end.

Jan