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Mac Mini (latest) trouble playing flash videos

Hi,


I have searched around & found lots of people with issues playing video on the mini, but nothing exactly the same as my problem. I have a new mac mini with lion - & flash installed. Latest Updates. That's all that is installed on it. I have it hooked up to my tv via hdmi.


All I want to do it watch tv via safari off the major sites (flash vieo), but on some site only it frezes the video or buffers baddly or just stops & hangs the video all thoghther. I try the same site & video on my iMac upstairs (further away from the router) & the video plays soothly & without problems!


Anyone have any idea what is going on? - Its driving me crazy!

Posted on Apr 15, 2012 9:17 PM

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Apr 15, 2012 9:29 PM in response to Dawson865

Hi Dawson,


To help others that may havea Mini, which exact one is it? Does it have a real Video Card or Integtated Graphics?


At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.


Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto but not including the Serial#...


Hardware Overview:


Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac7,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03

SMC Version (system): 1.21f4



Also, open Console in Utilities & see if any clues show when trying to play them.

Apr 15, 2012 9:41 PM in response to BDAqua

Hardware Overview:


Model Name: Mac mini

Model Identifier: Macmini5,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 2 GB

Boot ROM Version: MM51.0077.B10

SMC Version (system): 1.76f0


I'm not sure if it has integrated video? I think so?


So I had a look in the console & the only thing it reports is:


PM Kernel: IOSurface: Buffer allocation size is zero


No idea what that means.

Apr 18, 2012 4:00 AM in response to Dawson865

Something I forgot to ask, do you have hardware acceleration

enabled in Flash? Right click in the Flash window when a video

is playing, select settings, and make sure the panel with the

hardware acceleration check box is checked.


Depending on how the owner of a sight encoded the video,

it could play well without accelleration or play like crap

without accelleration. Which is why some sites play and

others don't.

Mac Mini (latest) trouble playing flash videos

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