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dawnie1977
dawnie1977
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October 12, 2014
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Poor quality/low resolution playback in flash

  • October 12, 2014
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I have recently been experiencing problems with poor quality video playback, ie videos appearing low resolution/pixelated. This problem only started in the past week and I noticed that when I downloaded a video from a friends facebook timeline and play it though windows media player, the issue is resolved, so it cannot be a problem with the file itself, but is more likely to do with flash player. It is also worth noting that when the downloaded video is played via Realplayer (which I believe uses flash) it is again pixelated / poor quality.

I have tried performing a clean install of flash, including installing various previous versions and also tried using different browsers – firefox, chrome and internet explorer, but the problem is still present.

I am really baffled by this as up until a few days ago I didn't have any problems.

I am using a laptop which runs Windows 7.

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Harikon
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October 12, 2014

I have seen the same issue ever since the last update. It happens on both windows 7 and windows 8 OS systems.

Tried going back a couple version of Flash, but no effect.

but it is only the plugin, the flash player 10 I have install with the Flash suite works fine.

dawnie1977
dawnie1977Author
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October 12, 2014

Thank you Harikon.  Do you have a link to the one you installed?  I'm a bit of a novice - sorry!

dawnie1977
dawnie1977Author
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October 16, 2014

dawnie1977,

It's a complicated issues, and I not trying to insult or make fun of you.

But

Realplayer is very different software, and as far as I know doesn't use flash to play movies.

Youtube use two types of players, flash and HTML5, to show it's videos. So you can uninstall the flash player and still play the movies on Youtube.

If you can play the videos in Windows Media player, you should be able to view them with it on the website.

if you right click on the video why it is playing, does it say flash or something else?


Here is a screenshot of my friends video when I right click.  There doesn't seem to be any option to play online videos through media player as far as I can see.  Also when I play a video through Realplayer and right click, I get the same menu, so I assumed that meant it is using flash?

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