Flash Video stopping or sticking after 2 or 3 seconds

Question

Flash Video stopping or sticking after 2 or 3 seconds in. Does anyone have this experience of why this may be happening?

Answer 1

This could be due to the video player buffering, when trying to serve higher quality video than the connection allows. Register a STATE_CHANGE handler on the video player object, and that should give you more insight into what's going on.

Answer 2

I see it a lot and it seems like a flash player bug. Restarting the browser fixes the problem. Also, sometimes the sound disappears, also fixable by a restart.

Answer 3

I usually experience this problem with firefox after having used iTunes. It seems pretty consistently not to work if iTunes has been playing since last reboot.

Answer 4

I think it's likely just a shortage of free RAM. I don't just see it with Flash, but with Quicktime too.

Answer 5

Yes, this is a common issue. The movie plays as much as it can until it reaches a point where it's not buffered. Sometimes it'll try to play "catch up" the movie will skip. I've found that setting bufferTime higher helps but is not a guarantee. Your best bet is to check the bytesLoaded on the .flv and wait to play the movie until a specified percent is loaded.

Answer 6

This has happened to me while using Firefox. I disabled and reenabled Java to solve it. Open the Options dialog box -> Content -> Uncheck Java -> Ok to close the dialog box. Recheck Java to reenable it. I didn't need to restart Firefox for it to work.