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Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

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Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

mrdee
Not sure if I am in the right topic here, but this looked the best one to match my problem.

for a while now I have experienced problems when watching online videos such as Youtube (and others, such as Surfthechannel etc. practically anything which provides online video streaming).
The problem is: whenever i watch a film clip and switch to full screen mode, at a certain stage the picture freezes. I can still hear the sound, which tells me the film is continuing to run, but the picture stays where it is.
When switching back to small frame mode (or whatever you call this), everything goes back to normal, and then I can go back to full screen en carry on watching, until the next time the same thing happens again.

My setup is as follows (although I am not sure this has much to do with it, as the same thing happens to my daughter on her computer, and she uses Internet Explorer):

Flash version 10.0.12.36 (The latest)
Firefox version 3.0.4 (The latest)
Pentium D CPU 2.80 Ghz
1 Gb of RAM
Win XP SP3
ATI Radeon X1550 Graphics Card with latest driver.

Like I said, I doubt if my setup has got much to do with it, asI am not the only one experiencing the problem, and also, this never happened in the past.

Has anyone else come across a similar or the same problem, and does anyone know how to solve it?

Thank you very much in advance.


 

 

 


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onscreen
1 possibility is there is some heavy process going on in the background that cause the slowdown of full screen flash playback. Some program might have been running at 100% in CPU resource and cause the video playback out of sync with the sound. Have you tried restarting the computer and play again?

Flash is a resource hogging feature that requires quite an attention when it comes to fullscreen display.

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(G)Tor-Men-Tor
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

right click on the flash video and under 'settings' uncheck the 'enable hardware acceleration'

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(G)tc
full screen mode freezes
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

I duplicate that question perfectly. I have a very fast machine with 2 cpus and 4 gigs of ram, etc.

It freezes just as you have said, in full screen mode ONLY and the audio continues.

It doesn't matter if it is flash or windows media player, etc. The ALL do it.

I will try the flash acceleration uncheck but for the life of me I cannot imagin how that would handle the windows player on an MPG or AVI.

My machine is a Notebook by Compal one of the worlds largest manufacturers with an Nvideo card that should be flawless.

 Any useful ideas would be appreciated.


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(G)Absurd Hero
Yay Internet
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

Disabling hardware acceleration worked great for me with this problem.  Thanks!

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(G)Bigby
workaround worked for me
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

no problem anymore after disabling hardware acceleration. Thx for the tip, man!

-reply by Bigby

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(G)MesmerLab
disabling hardware acceleration works!
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

I just built a new computer, nice specs and all that. The motherboard has a Radeon HD4200 onboard, which is much better than my last computer's expansion video card.

Maybe the onboard video is the cause of any Flash video locking up in full screen after a few seconds. The audio would continue playing. Even on Hulu, where I assume the commercials and show segments are separate files, sometimes it would hang on a commercial frame and the audio would continue on as if I was listening to the radio.

 Well disabling hardware acceleration in the Flash player options worked perfectly.

Thanks!

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(G)Marius
I also disables hardware acceleration and it works!!
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

I had this problem a few times before, but I though my WinXP was the problem or Mozilla Firefox. I disabled hardware acceleration and now it works! Thanks a lot!

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(G)

 Thanks to the one who gave this solution, remove hardware acceleration, works great !


 


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(G)Brandon
why does disabling hardware acceleration work?
Online Films Freeze In Full Screen Mode

Thank you for the tip.  But why?  This is a new computer and it has a nice video card.  Does it have anything to do with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit?

-reply by Brandon

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