Ok so I went on a tangeant last year when I figured out that youtube is a central hub for underground music to be broadcast through and basically acts as a referral site with no advertising overhead for a lot of incredible (however non-bankrolled) artists.......amazing how much more content you can find there too, as opposed to the filesharing sites/programs (Limewire, etc.)....... One teensy lil' problem tho.
FLASH!!! GRRRRRR!!!!!!
There I'll be, mindin' my business, watching footage or listening to some tunes and Snap! Crackle! Pop! Silence......
What is the freakin' deal with this awesome technology that the world is seemingly flirting with trading for the Sun and its ridiculous propensity for crashing without reason/provocation/so much as a crosseyed look or misdirected fart from a butterfly?!?! I know its not just me, and I'm wondering if any of you have found a player or a method or ANYTHING that makes it more stable without getting into all the goofy registry cleaners, new and improved anti-spys, blah, blah, blah. In other words, can you stabilize flash from youtube, myspace, etc. to the point where its as reliable as say Java WITHOUT having to become an expert in Flash? (I've never had a problem with Java so I'm just throwing that out as an example....)
Oh yeah I do Firefox (IE in a pinch only) and XP.....and I have Adobe's latest and greatest (that's the one that be makin' me nuts.....).
PS-typically the Adobe reinstall takes care of the problem, but there has been a few times where the resurrection was spontaneous and unexplained having no relation to the reinstall.....
From what I've gleaned scouring the web the last year, its an Adobe problem and their solution is basically to avoid talking about it. I get the same problem on the myspace player periodically (when either one is out, then its lights out for the other), so its not a graphics problem, and yep version 7.0 is apparently the Golden Child of Adobe and can readily be downloaded, however most of the sites you use the player on will automatically update you to the latest version, so you have to turn the update feature off and there's some other hocus-pocus you'd have to do as well which turned me off to the idea.
Question for ya Zoey.....do any of the players you cited in this last post REPLACE Adobe Flash OR their Shockwave player? Or are they counterparts for RealPlayer, Windows Media, etc.? I was looking at the Silverlight just yesterday coincidentally, but I'm kinda over IE anymore.....I guess if anything substantial implicates Firefox as being the problem here then I'll reconsider, but I've grown quite fond of not battling some mutant virus every time I google "Uma Thurman as Little Bo Peep"........
any how, i dont have an answer now. when i have time ill do some research, and if and when i figure it out ill post. good questions tho..
but hey, idea, unistall all flash stuff you got. then try the other players one by one to see if itll replace. worst case is you just reinstall the same flash stuff. worth a try.
come to think of it,...i dont seem to have adobe flash installed,...and i have no issues with watching these things,..so something on this comp has replaced adobe. but im not sure what replaced it,...maybe it was divx or the VLC player or silver light. i dunno
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Mar 13, 2009, 4:52 AM
Well I do believe I solved the mystery here.....it has to do with master volume control of all things. The wave setting has to be balanced to keep from overloading the system as opposed to being maxed out sharing the gospel of John Denver with the poor lost heathens in the surrounding counties..........YEE-HAW!!!!
