Movies and Sound freezes in Firefox

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Monday 11 December 2006 09:49, neil.linux wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Monday 11 December 2006 03:39, neil.linux wrote:
> >> <snipped>
> >>
> >> My problem is that embedded movies streamed over the Internet
> >> freeze after the first 15 to 30 seconds when using Firefox 2.0
> >> (Although the video still continues to download). I have no
> >> problem streaming them through Kaffeine except I get
> >> intermittent sound (ie sound for 15 seconds then nothing then
> >> maybe sound again after about a minute) .
> >> I had the same problem with Firefox 1.5.x under Dapper.
> >>
> >> When playing from the hard drive they play all the way through
> >> but with intermittent sound (see above).  This happens with
> >> both mplayer and xine based plugins and players.
> >>
> >> What steps could I be doing to troubleshoot this and does
> >> anyone know of a workaround that might address this issue?
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance for any help people may be able to
> >> offer.
> >>
> >> Neil Blenkiron
> >> Melbourne, Australia
> >
> > Looks like a Flash problem.  Strangely enough Adobe seems to
> > update their Flash9 beta without giving notice.  I had the same
> > problem, but after re-installing flashplayer it disappeared. 
> > You can download the latest and greatest player here :
> >
> > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
> >
> > then copy the *.so file into your various plugins directories.
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Thanks for the advice Kaj.
>
> I updated Flash as suggested but still have the movie freezing. I
> couldn't even play the advert before the short film at
> http://www.atomfilms.com/film/punk_group_fat.jsp?mid=232889693
> without the video freezing. I Notice that flash animations on
> adverts in the sidebar keep working.
>
> Could the problem be in a config file for mplayer or a setting in
> Firefox itself?

I don't think MPlayer has anything to do with flash.  On my system 
certainly nothing.  I just copied the flashplayer.so --> plugins 
dir.  You could try to adjust the memory settings in flash by 
right-clicking the movie and increase memory.  Otherwise I'm out of 
ideas...

Kaj Haulrich.
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