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#78940 10-Mar-2011 18:22

Hi, has anyone had recent issues with FF and Chrome (may be Mozilla issue as they are common) that wont play videos. The video screen remains black the stream shows the file loading (no buffering issues). Sound is ok. Also when you touch the stream cursor the action of the cursor ghosts and the trails of the cursor and time stamps remain.

Using IE there is no issues with youtube.

I guess it could be a performance issue with this particular machine (its old but not that out of whack) however while playing a video the CPU loading is only around 20% and RAM usage less than 50% of physical, oh and its an XP machine with thats all uptodate.

In the past few days there has been a flurry of updates both FF, Adobe Flash and XP, so me thinks one of those has popped a clog.

Any help is appreciated.

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#447380 10-Mar-2011 18:44

Not on youtube but I often get [Flash 10 is required] on tumblr. Most recently, videos would play from a tags page but errored on the post's page.

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#447449 10-Mar-2011 23:21

i would check that the flash plugin is working in firefox and not disabled.

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#447468 11-Mar-2011 08:16

Hi, thanks for the response, just an to clarify, before I created this thread I had used the adobe flash unstall tool, then reinstalled the lattest flash software for Mozilla (ie FF and Chrome), the plugin reports its all ok.

I think you are on to something gible, I just read the article on the 1996 earthquake doco on stuff, so went to youtube searched to find the clip, and it played but was black and the controls trailed. Went back to the stuff story, clicked on the embedded tag in the page, it played flawlessly.

I have two other machines that are running the same XP update state, same version of FF and Flash plugins, they work just fine, so its something about this machines hardware combo and the plugin, very annoying.

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#447470 11-Mar-2011 08:19

Oh, and do check out that doco, the director uploaded it yesterday (after an edit to make it current), its very scary how all that happened was well understood by the geo community and employees in the council, it was chillingly accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTy6ogLDX8&feature=player_embedded

Below is an example of what I mean with the trailing control buttons.

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#447501 11-Mar-2011 10:25

graphics card up to date drivers?

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#447502 11-Mar-2011 10:30

Hi, yes will look into that, but should note, this all worked just fine till a couple of days ago.

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#447503 11-Mar-2011 10:37

Perhaps a windows update has caused a conflict somewhere with your video driver.. Wasn't Tuesday patch day?

Is your PC set up to automatically update?

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#447505 11-Mar-2011 10:43

Hi, yes it was and as noted in the original post the machine has had a flurry of updates, which I am sure is the issue, but odd that IE (which i know uses a different flash code set) works ok, and it all works if I use an embedded flash youtube client

Anyway will check out the drivers

Cyril

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#447510 11-Mar-2011 10:54

OK, updated the video driver, ATI Mobile 9000 chipset (yes old but good old tosh laptop) and still no go.

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#447514 11-Mar-2011 11:19

a few people have your problem and it seems to be the Adobe flash version 10.2.152.32 that is causing problems , just go back to an earlier version and it fixes it.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

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#447517 11-Mar-2011 11:23

Cheers, seems a common issue, currently running older version of Skype for very similar reasons (differernt machine to the one we are dealing with here though).

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#447523 11-Mar-2011 11:45

Hi, rolled back to 10.1, all good, thanks for the help. I did a bit more of a search around regarding this issue with 10.2.152.32 and did find a few folk in the same boat, but little if any help back from Adobe, sigh.

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