Flash woes

[Jimmy9pints]

I've had nothing but trouble from flash recently on all my computers. Stalling videos. BBC giving me "this content doesn't seem to be working". And both Firefox and Chrome crashing and freezing.

Different browsers. Different OS's. Flash is the common problem.

Not looking for a fix, just thought I'd mention it (moan about it) and see if others are having similar problems. I wish there was a viable Opensource alternative, or HTML5 would hurry up and kick Flash off into space.

[piquat]

I'll join your misery.

Just built a new one: AMD X6 1090t, 8GB & ASUS MB.

Flash is like a broken record in full screen. I know they'll get this fixed eventually and this isn't a "fun" machine anyway, I have another Win7 machine for gaming/browsing I can watch vids on but it's just shame to see a brand new machine stutter like that. Eh, I knew what to expect going in so I'm not toooo worried about this.

I'd like to try the "200 lines kernel patch" on it. I have an SSD coming for it today so I'm going to wipe the mechanical anyway.

Worst I could do is hose up something I'm going to delete anyway.:popcorn:

[Ric_NYC]

Flash is horrible.

My computer can play perfectly a 1gb video but can't handle a simple 4 minute Youtube video in full screen.

[chriswyatt]

You can get a plugin so that you need to click to activate Flash apps, also I think Opera does this by default doesn't it? Of course it'll still crash if you do actually need to watch Flash content.

[lovinglinux]

You can get a plugin so that you need to click to activate Flash apps, also I think Opera does this by default doesn't it? Of course it'll still crash if you do actually need to watch Flash content.

Opera and Chrome has such functionality built-in. Firefox can do that with Flashblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/) or NoScript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/) extensions.

The OP is not looking for a fix, but here are my suggestions:

http://www.webgapps.org/flash/optimization

[Khakilang]

Funny I had no problem whatever with flash or watching video. But there is a horrible horizontal line cut across the screen when there is a fast action scene on a video. I try many setting but no luck on VLC player and nVidia. Anyone know about this. I have google around but no success. I think you have to set the frame per second but I don't know how. Other than this everything works fine.

[Austin25]

The huge problem is how flash seems to be a web standard, yet is proprietary and unportable. Even if it did work decently, it would still not work well on other architectures.

[Jimmy9pints]

unportable. Even if it did work decently, it would still not work well on other architectures.

Is that true? So even if it works well in Windows, the updates there won't filter through because it's not the same codebase?

With so many problems, why is this "web standard" supported by Google then?


.....meanwhile, my Flash Crash Woes go on. (Not just on the BBC site BTW)

[jcolyn]

I must be the exception to the rule since I have several machines running Linux and am having no issues with flash. I can watch full screen youtube videos as well as other videos with no problems..

Check synaptic to see which flash you have installed. It should be flashplugin-installer which is the installer that downloads the plugin directly from Adobe..

[Windows Nerd]

I must be the exception to the rule since I have several machines running Linux and am having no issues with flash. I can watch full screen youtube videos as well as other videos with no problems..

Check synaptic to see which flash you have installed. It should be flashplugin-installer which is the installer that downloads the plugin directly from Adobe..

I am the same, I have never had any issues with flash. At all.

[Gremlinzzz]

This fix my full screen freeze on youtube
http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/11/fix-youtube-video-freeze-while-in-full.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techdrivein+%28Tech+Drive-in

[lovinglinux]

This fix my full screen freeze on youtube
http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/11/fix-youtube-video-freeze-while-in-full.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techdrivein+%28Tech+Drive-in

The latest version of Flash-Aid (http://www.webgapps.org/addons/flash-aid) has this tweak built-in.

[Jimmy9pints]

I must be the exception to the rule
That's good to hear.


Check synaptic to see which flash you have installed. It should be flashplugin-installer which is the installer that downloads the plugin directly from Adobe..

Yeah checked that already. Thanks

@lovinglinux
Never heard of Flashaid before. Sounds fun. I'm going to check it out.

[johntaylor1887]

I am the same, I have never had any issues with flash. At all.

The 64bit flash works perfectly for me. Always has on every distro. I'm thinking people must be using crappy computers or something. Even on my meager netbook, flash runs fine.

[marl30]

The latest version of Flash-Aid (http://www.webgapps.org/addons/flash-aid) has this tweak built-in.
I only use to have problems with flash in HD. Since I have been using his plugin, the problems with flash is a thing of the past. I'm using 64 bit flash too.

[lovinglinux]

@lovinglinux
Never heard of Flashaid before. Sounds fun. I'm going to check it out.


I only use to have problems with flash in HD. Since I have been using his plugin, the problems with flash is a thing of the past. I'm using 64 bit flash too.

:guitar:

[piquat]

The latest version of Flash-Aid (http://www.webgapps.org/addons/flash-aid) has this tweak built-in.

This actually seems to have helped my laptop tonight. I'll have to try it on the one in my sig when I get home.

[Zero2Nine]

Lately I got some errors on youtube (FireFox told me the Flash plugin crashed) but no persistent problems. If I visit YouTube now everything seems fine.

[Jimmy9pints]

I'm thinking people must be using crappy computers or something

That could be true for one of my computers - an old AMD64 Acer. That thing has had many major pieces of hardware fail (CD drive, screen, PSU...) and repaired.

But my new little netbook (Asus 1001PQ) was really struggling. Sure, it's no beast, but if we need top performance hardware to run Flash media, something's wrong - wouldn't you agree?

Firefox's "plugin-container" was hitting me with 90-100%cpu usage everytime there was Flash elements in a page at one point! That was totally crippling this little machine.

I uninstalled Flash - but Chrome has it's own installation of it I think. That was working better, but kept crashing and stalling too.

I ran Flashaid, which got the correct version of Flash working for me and Flash in Firefox seems to be running smoothly now.

I didn't come looking for a Fix, but it's fixed....

Thanks to the Flashaid developer!!!

[lovinglinux]

Thanks to the Flashaid developer!!!

You are welcome

:popcorn: