Embedded flash video freezes after 2 seconds (all browsers, tiger, leopard)

Did you repair permissions after installing the Flash Player plugin? Have the correct settings in QuickTime MIME settings?

Message was edited by: scapesuiter

I haven't been messing around with no Quicktime settings either.

Perhaps it is time you did!

These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!

It is known to work in the great majority of cases with Safari 3.0.4, QT 7.3 and OS 10.4.11.

Assuming you already run Tiger versions OS 10.4.9 or above (this has not yet been verified with Leopard) and have Quicktime 7.2 or above, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install ( or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:

RealPlayer 10 for Mac from http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?platform2=Mac%20OS%20X&product= RealPlayer%2010&proc=g3&lang=&show_list=0&src=macjack

Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)

Perian from http://perian.org/

Adobe FlashPlayer from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.)

In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).

In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).

Now go to Safari Preferences/Security, and tick the boxes under Web Content (all 4 of them).

Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz.

Important: Now repair permissions and restart.

The world should now be your oyster!

You should also consider having the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.

Any more ideas?

Not from me, sorry, but hopefully a Leopard user will chime in.

I can't see how Perian can affect playback of web-embedded flash video

No, it doesn't, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have it!

But I would still try downloading and re-installing Adobe Flash Player.

Hi,

I had the same problem today that flash videos play only for 2 seconds without sound and I figured out the reason for my problem! The problem was that yesterday I paired my computer with my brand new Bluetooth headset. As it's my first wireless headset I didn't know that paired headset has a switch to use headset for sound or not. So my computer refused to play any sound or video when it was set to play sound into paired headset that was unavailable or currently in use with my phone.

To switch your Mac to use headset as sound output, click on Bluetooth icon on a menubar, choose your headset and there you have a menu choice "Use Headset" or "Don't Use Headset". If you have set to use headset but you don't have a headset who currently wants to talk to your computer then this problem occurs.

I'm having the same problem with flash video freezing after 1-2 seconds when I use my
bluetooth headset (motorola H700). I've tried reinstalling the flash plugin, going to older versions of flash, repair permissions, you name it. I haven't tried restarting coreaudiod, however.

Hi there! I have the same problem. The Flash Player freezes after 2 seconds, but it loads in the background to the end. I tried the tipps posted below... Nothing helped so far.

I have several Bluetooth headsets and NONE of them work with YouTube or Flash content. I usually use Firefox. With both Flash and Youtube content, the media stops immediately after I start it whenever a Bluetooth headset is paired with my Mac. I"m on a MBP running Leopard.

Are there any solutions to this problem?

Here are two more discussions of the problem (no answers--at least for my situation).

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=617400&postdays=0&postorder=asc&po stsperpage=15&start=30

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=173889

Hi Mike!

This is the forum for Safari for the Mac.

You are running Windows XP, and therefore need to post in the appropriate forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1188

Thanks, Klaus! I am not looking for a solution by posting here and I'm not planning to post here again.

And you might be correct in your assumption that this problem has no relationship to the same sounding problem posted about the same time on these three forums — one for Linux, one for Windows and one for Mac. But if there is a connection, it might help someone find an answer.

We will see when we start getting some solutions (soon I hope!).

SOLVED!

I was having this two-second playback in silence then freeze problem.

The solution for me was found (rather weirdly) under the Applications>Utilities>Audio Midi Setup settings. I set the "properties for" dropdown to the speakers I was using, then looked at the "Audio Output" settings.

The "Format" was set to 8000.00 Hz, 2ch-24bit. When I changed this to 44100.00Hz 2ch-24bit, all flash played back just fine as before.

This is not the first time the settings in Audio Midi Setup have seemed to change by themselves for me. A few weeks ago they changed to 1ch (mono) output only! This is annoying at it's not an intuitive place to look for a solution.

I hope this has been able to help some of you too.

Mark