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jjpijpker
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January 16, 2008
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No sound, video stops playing after few seconds

  • January 16, 2008
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Hey,

I have a problem with my Flashplayer. When i watch videos on websites like Youtube of so, sometimes it happens that my Flashplayer doesn't play the sound. The video will play for about two seconds (the whole video is loaded) and than, just stops playing. I can just drag to another part of the video, from which two seconds wil be played again. After i refresh Firefox, the problem usualy is gone. Does anyone else have this problem and more important, who can tell me the solution...?
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    capn0jack
    Participant
    October 26, 2008
    This is where I confirmed that the Flash player cared about /tmp: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-275947.html
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    LuckyNumberSleven
    Participating Frequently
    September 14, 2008
    davefrade,
    Use Flash 10 beta in Firefox 3 and you'll be fine.
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    capn0jack
    Participant
    October 26, 2008
    Well, I was having this same 2-second video freeze issue. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit so I have to run flash under firefox32. Detail:

    Linux hostname-ubuntu 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 16:57:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

    Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124

    MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
    application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
    application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

    What I found was that /tmp appeared to be full despite lots of disk space (check bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/285096). After a reboot, things were back to normal (that is, /tmp didn't appear to be a separate filesystem).
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    Phillipz
    Participating Frequently
    September 8, 2008
    mazzolar, i really like what you say about that.
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    ferraconn
    Participant
    August 31, 2008
    Thanks for this document i`m search many days in the world wide web,but now i found this information on your site.
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    davefrade
    Participant
    August 28, 2008
    Yes, it's working for me in ie, and not in firefox since the (forced) upgrade. I'll stick with ie.
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    Bober1987
    Participant
    June 16, 2008
    Works after reboot for maybe 2 pages or times. mp3's and flv's won't play. Even when I add a flv inside a swf it won't play. Just stops after 2 frames or 2 seconds on streaming video. For mp3's it just won't start. Like myspace. So it's not a browser issue. Please someone fix this. My computer doesn't work right. Been like this for months. It has nothing to do with the browsers. It's the flash player.
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    WebmasterBlog
    Participating Frequently
    June 16, 2008
    If it's not working than, download an older wesion. For me it's wprking propertly.
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    gent44
    Participating Frequently
    May 16, 2008
    Did you try to downgrade flash player?
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    srv90
    Participant
    May 30, 2008
    Those using firefox, exit Firefox, and just go to the following directory "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles", and delete the folder in there (don't worry, it will be recreated when you next launch FF). THis should rectify the issue for you.

    CHeers
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    Gary Block
    Participant
    March 4, 2008
    I'm having the problem on NFL.com. Funny, the commercial before the video plays just fine but the video freezes. I installed the latest version of Flash but it didn't help. Screw it, I'll watch ESPN on the tube.
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    mike95060
    Participant
    February 9, 2008
    mazzolar, Perhaps you mean NPSWF32.dll? That dll has been in my Firefox plugins folder and has not fixed my problem; I'm glad it fixed yours.

    The problem for me (and some other posters) is that simply restarting Firefox sometimes fixes the problem for a few days, but not permanently.

    I'd love to know if woostie's solution was permanent for him and I'd love to have mike073048's question to Woostie answered.
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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    I have the same problem!

    But, I'm not using ANY codecs such as real player's.

    So...
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