Flash / Youtube etc - help needed !

[Cloth-Ears]

That is utterly dishonest and beastly !

I could never do that with my insurance company - the paperwork would be far too long.

- - - Updated - - -

" A woodcutter I have never seen before, called on his way home for a cup of tea. On entering the living room he tripped on a roller skate and his axe accidently fell upon the computer "

[earlofsodbury]

No, no, no...


"I was all hopped-up on jellies and crack following a three-day drinking binge on buckie and meths when my wife gave me cause for minor irritation due to her face, so I attacked her with an axe. Unfortunately she dodged the axe which instead hit my beloved porn-downloading apparatus, smashing it into a thousand tiny pieces. *sob*"

They will look at your address, note that it is in North Britain, AKA Jockshire, and instantly believe this story.

Obviously you'd have to translate this into scotch to make it completely plausible.

HTHs

[TheMinimalCriminal]

No, no, no...


"I was all hopped-up on jellies and crack following a three-day drinking binge on buckie and meths when my wife gave me cause for minor irritation due to her face, so I attacked her with an axe. Unfortunately she dodged the axe which instead hit my beloved porn-downloading apparatus, smashing it into a thousand tiny pieces. *sob*"

They will look at your address, note that it is in North Britain, AKA Jockshire, and instantly believe this story.

Obviously you'd have to translate this into scotch to make it completely plausible.

HTHs

Are you seriously trying to suggest that Cloth-Ears tell his insurance company that he has a wife? They'll see through that a mile away. I suggest replacing the word "wife" with "blowup sex doll Mandy". That would make it far more believable.

[Cloth-Ears]

They already know I prefer machines, having made numerous claims in the past for destroyed mechanical lovers. They won't believe I'm married !

I'm thinking perhaps I could tell them that one of the Battletoads tried to get out of the PC case and attack me, so I had no choice but to defend myself. How about that ?

[karlinamillion]

This is doing my nut in !

Flash videos and that means principlally Youtube, all play for eleven seconds then freze. I can click further along the progress bar and it will resume playing from that point, but only for another 11 or 12 seconds. I've tried a Flash annimation site to see if it's just Youtube but no, it does seem to be to do with it being Flash.

I've gone through the obvious things, listed below, but the problem continues. Feck me, the thing I hate about these things is that they can be sooo open ended and it's taking up my time.

I have :

- Updated XP
- Cleared out cache
- Used C-Cleaner to clear out cache of everything
- Done a full Kaspersky virus scan at the highest setting
- Deleted Flash Player using the Flash Uninstaller
- Installed the latest Flash Player
- Tried using Firefox instead of IE and using a new Flash install in that
- In right click settings on Youtube, unticked Enable Hardware Acceleration, to eliminate the GPU as culprit - no effect
- Phoned the ISP to check for traffic management ( none ) and any other issues ( none )
- Checked speed - just under 4 Meg, but all clips even at 240 all stop at 11 seconds. Not buffering, just a halt. Again, can resume, but only for another 11/12 secs.



BIZARRE !


Can anyone suggest anything else to check ?

Currently Flash & Firefox are not good bed fellows;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18495965

[earlofsodbury]

They already know I prefer machines, having made numerous claims in the past for destroyed mechanical lovers. They won't believe I'm married !

I'm thinking perhaps I could tell them that one of the Battletoads tried to get out of the PC case and attack me, so I had no choice but to defend myself. How about that ?

Yes, given your advanced state of intoxication it is likely you would believe the Battletoads were real and in the room, and so you were defending yourself from them - vain though that would be against the awesome might of Battletoads.



Excellent, I have solved your computer problem.

PM me with the invoice address. Please note: I only take payment in Swiss Francs, Reichsmarks, gold teeth or human organs.

[Cloth-Ears]

My God !

Battletoads actually exist !

Ha ha !

[notaclue]

Cloth-Ears, go down your local PC World type shop and demand that they give you a new computer. Explain that the fact that you (probably) did not buy your old computer from there is irrelevant. Tell them you are familiar with the law and the rights of consumers. Tell them very forecfully that you will not leave until you are given a new computer. If they refuse, threaten to smash their windows.

I belive this will not fail and you will soon have your new computer for free.

[earlofsodbury]

My God !

Battletoads actually exist !

Ha ha !

Yes, absolutely, you should get on the 'phone to your nearest games retailer and demand a copy NOW! It really is the finest game ever written.

[Corruption]

Threads like this really do reinforce the existence of (insert your own) God

[Cloth-Ears]

Notaclue, it's been a long standing must-do-sometime jape of mine to go into Marks and Spencer with a twenty year old pair of slippers that are falling apart and stinking.

"I wish to complain about these slippers that I purchased from Marks and Spencer. They are not of merchantable quality and I seek a refund or at least a credit note".

- - - Updated - - -

Threads like this really do reinforce the existence of (insert your own) God

Where else could you have such a blissfully surreal conversation ?

[Cloth-Ears]

Being serious again ............ an update.

I had a brainwave to try the BBC's Iplayer, which is Flash based. It's working.

Of course, you have to download a dedicated Iplayer program, so I suppose the Flash is working in that and is maybe not dependent on other things such as particular Windows files to make it work. So iot seems from this that it might not be Flash itself that's at fault, but something else that's either needed but missing, or there but blocking. In other words, it's as I suspected i.e. not directly Flash as the issue.

With Iplayer working but Flash in general e.g. Youtube, Metacafe, etc, halting at 11 seconds, can anyone think of anything else that might be causing it ?
I'll remind you however, that I've already tried fresh broswers, Windows updates, uninstallling old Flash, clearing Registry errors, virus scans.

[mosfet]

Currently Flash & Firefox are not good bed fellows;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18495965

Yep, gone back to Flash 10.3. Working now.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes

[Cloth-Ears]

I'm aware of the Flash-Mozilla thing, but this is also ( and exactly the same sticking ) in IE8.

My IE8 is a fresh one, I've checked that Flash is an enabled object in the browser ( I can see it not working when I disable it i.e. I get no clips at all then re-enable it and see the clip albeit with the problem I have ) , secuity and privacy settings are just normal, AV at a normal level, Windows XP is up to date.

Yet, as I say, I Player works.

The clip playing problem is not confined to Youtube but manifests on the various other similar clip sites and also when embedded in forums.