You-Tube freezing!...

[Fozzer]

Hello Chums... ....

Fairly recent problem for no apparent reason I can think of!...

When playing You-Tube on my Firefox Browser, the music/sound and screen, (and mouse pointer), suddenly freezes for a second or two, every now and again, with my desktop Processor Meter Dial is stuck in the red...100%!
Sometimes when I click my Mouse Pointer on the open You-Tube Browser, the page and the sound freezes again!

Its not due to sound, etc, buffering; as the You-Tube browser progress bar shows the data progress to be well ahead of the sound progress!

Nothing seriously running appears to show in the Windows Process List...

Its spoiling my daily enjoyment of my You-Tube music listening.
(It sometimes happens with live data downloading on Films on news channels).

Would it be something to do with a problem with my Windows Media Player, etc? playing via my on-board Soundmax Digital Audio sound Chip?

It uses up all my Processor time when the program freezes, and everything stops for a while, until the Processor load drops again!

Any ides, Chums?

Paul....with sudden hiccups!... ...!

[ozzy72]

Paul, try Media Player Classic (comes built in with the K-Lite codec package).
It uses a lot less system resources and is my player of choice. You can get it at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/k_l ... c_pack.htm

[Fozzer]

Ta Mark... ...!

Un-installed all my other Media Player programs just in case they might have been causing the trouble, and then installed your Media player...

Still got the same jitters as U-Tube was playing... ...!

So...

I thought I would try running U-Tube on my standby Internet Explorer Browser instead of my default Firefox Browser...

Problem solved?...steady as a rock!... ...!

My Internet Explorer Browser is very little used, so there's not much "stuff" installed/running on it, so that may be the reason/cure....

....I just need to transfer all my U-Tube Music, etc, over from Firefox to Internet Explorer, and just use it for playing Music, etc... ...!

(Any tips on how to transfer all my many U-Tube-only Favourites over from Firefox to Internet Explorer...all in one go?).

Paul...jitter-free on Explorer... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

Versions:
FF = 18.
OE = 9
IE = 9

[Bass]

Outlook express! Isn't that payware today?

My youtube works like a charm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krK7Q49o6uA

[Fozzer]

Outlook express! Isn't that payware today?

My youtube works like a charm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krK7Q49o6uA

Internet Explorer is the Browser.
Outlook Express is the Mail Server.

I was using the Internet Explorer Browser.... ...!

Paul... 8-)...!

Internet Explorer and Outlook Express sound too similar to me...

@Bass...your Status Quo download jitters on my Firefox Browser!

[Bass]

On the witness stand again.
This is simply so beautiful, that i can share a tear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKFcfytlxU

[1olehippy]

Having the same problem here with my 3.2 dual core and super fast internet. Finally figured out it was a You Tube problem. You can only recieve as fast as it's sent. I would venture to say that it is a server overload at their end.

Dave... :-?

[Fozzer]

Having the same problem here with my 3.2 dual core and super fast internet. Finally figured out it was a You Tube problem. You can only receive as fast as it's sent. I would venture to say that it is a server overload at their end.

Dave... :-?

An interesting suggestion....problem with U-Tube's Server overload?

The strange thing is, I now find it runs smoothly when tried on my Internet Explorer Browser, but is very jerky, with long pauses/freezes on my Firefox Browser...
..so I'm still confused as the what could be causing it!

At the moment I am running all my U-tube programs on my Outlet Express Internet Explorer Browser, and everything else on Firefox.

Paul...Confusion Reigns!... ::)...!

A quick peek on the 'Net shows that others are experiencing the same U-Tube problem with Firefox...
Example...>>> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 906AAMHDzX

[ozzy72]

Which release of Firefox are you using Paul? And with what plug-ins?

[Fozzer]

Which release of Firefox are you using Paul? And with what plug-ins?

Hello Mark...

Firefox version 18.

Plug-ins: Enabled....>>

Adobe acrobat.
AGV Safety plug in.
Google update.
Java Platform.
Shockwave Flash.
Silverlight plug in.
Windows activation Technologies.

(The above could be disabled if required).

Paul.

[Bass]

Strange. My wife had the same problem using Google Crome on my bandlink!! Never any probs on my pc using Firefox :-?

[Fozzer]

Strange. My wife had the same problem using Google Crome on my bandlink!! Never any probs on my pc using Firefox :-?

My smoothly running Internet Explorer is a default, bare-bones version, with no additional add-ons installed.
Maybe that's why it runs U-Tube so smoothly?

Still have unacceptable stutter problems with Firefox running U-Tube!

Paul... ...!

P.S...I'm going to disable all my Firefox plug-ins, and see what happens..

[Hagar]

See if this helps. http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/08/22/how-to-fix-flash-video-performance-in-firefox/

[Fozzer]

See if this helps. http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/08/22/how-to-fix-flash-video-performance-in-firefox/

Ta, Doug.... ...!
I highlighted that solution in my previous post..

Disabled all the Plug-ins listed in my previous post, and Firefox runs U-Tube, etc, as smooth as a babies bottom... ...!

So it was definitely one of those plug-ins...Flash?... ...!

Time to ferret around now... ...!

Paul... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

[Bass]

Here you get my plugins on Firefox
NVIDIA 3D VISION 7.17.13.1090
Shockwave Flash 11.5.502.146

I've deactivated Java atm.