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progress bar reaches end but video stops midway

for the last 6 weeks ...for the last 6 weeks i have encountered a problem while streaming media through daily motion and youtube.
the progress bar for the video will travel steadily to a certain point and then fill up the bar all at one time, but when the video reaches that certain point of progress it stops and returns to start screen, without completing the video i have attempted to fix this problem by emptying my cache and cookies, i have reloaded windows, got rid of certain programs i thought may have caused the problems and reloaded my flash player but no success, i have explained this problem as best i can any ideas would be appreciated

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JW Player

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please post a link to your testpage, else its next to impossible to guess what might be the problem...

is it only a particular video or does the phenomenon apply to any video you attempt to stream?
can you make it work with videos from your own site?

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this happens to any video i attempt to stream, i am a relative novice i know a little but not a lot, how do i go about getting you a test page on the problem for you, i don't have a website

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ok, somewhat more troublesome - please make a simple page with only a player nothing else - that shows the problem. then you can post the code and people here can have a look and maybe spot the trouble, if it is the code...

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I also have the same problem.
Please take a look here:
http://misteri.byethost7.com/arkib/?q=node/6

Thanks...

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I want to agree with this problem... I'm having the same exact issue. I haven't the slightest clue what's causing it. And yes, it's been about 4-6 weeks that this problem has been occurring. My visitors keep complaining of the problem.

FLV Player (3.7, 3.8) + ffmpeg (latest) + flvtool2 (latest) + lighttpd (latest svn)

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JW Player

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try have a look in this [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5828]thread[/url] - same problem?

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I dont believe so... this is a recent occurance (like I said past 4-6 weeks). Prior to that, no problems at all.

Members of my website upload file (wmv, avi, etc), and file converts with ffmpeg, inserts metadata with flvtool2 and serves from same herver using lighttpd. I dont believe it's an upload problem.

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so? is there any solution to overcome this problem?.. :s

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a metadata problem? try checkout this [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5902]thread[/url]

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no... my video has the metadata... i already checked it with the metadata tool... but still the video stops midway...

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Any body got any solution or explanation for this issue. I am sill experiencing this problem in youtube and my sits.

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JW Player

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Happens quite frequently the last few days with video feeds from YouTube.

Seems better today, maybe once they get merged with Google, it will go away.

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It is happening in most of the sites using progressive stream

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It’s been a while since I’ve changed anything about the FLV playback component. Strange issue, I’ll keep an eye on it. The example streams I’ve set up in the “extras” folder of my site work fine though.

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Has anything been done with this? Getting lots of complaints on our site

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JeroenW

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Sounds like yet another hickup in FFMPEG actually. Did you try moving back to a previous release of FFMPEG? The problem is that Flash’s implementation and FFMPEG’s implementation of H263 (Flash7 video format) is somewhat different. Flash uses a smaller featureset and stalls when it encounters any of the more advanced features.

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We dont use ffmpeg - We use the flash video encoder to do the encodiing, ive done the metadata injection, if you pull the video off and view it in a stand alone flv player it works fine, however watching it streamed it looks as thought its downloaded completely but then it dies about 2/3 of the way in.

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I've exactly the same problem described by jack here, I'm using FFMPEG, FLVTool2 and lighttpd for streaming. Have somebody found any solution to this problem? Or does anyone know what cause this problem?

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JeroenW

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Hmm, it still sounds like a hickup in the FLV file. I’ve seen this a couple of times before. Haven’t had any problems with it myself though (I also use the Flash Video Encoder), so I don’t know how to fix this. Anyone?

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issue related to server? Server load, bandwidth etc.

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Same problem. Video stops after 10-20 seconds. But, I have done a fair amount of capturing of youtube video, and I'm thinking they know this and have dumped something into my registry or elsewhere telling youtube or the flash player not to stream any longer. I have a second hard drive with Windows XP loaded on to it, and on which I have done no captures, and I had no problem viewing a Youtube video when running XP on it. Same computer, same internet connection, same video (which I couldn't view using drive 1), just a different hard drive with a seperate operating system.
So, have you guys that are having this problem done much video capture?

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@Marco
there *must* be another explanataion!
to make such changes to a user machine would be sooo illegal - i can not believe it!
another thing would be to block the access to a site - but that doesnt fit your description.

i would find it more likely that a windows or browser update is the difference!

for instance there are markedly differences between the way IE6 and 7 caches and handles streams.

which browsers have you tried? - if only IE, then try download a FireFox or Opera - see if that makes any difference...

(to rip youtube videos i will usually just copy them from the browser cache after watching, or if im really really lazy use [url=http://keepvid.com/]keepvid.com[/url])

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I'm having the same problem recently .... even after clearing the system cache ... the problem remains ... could it be a flash or a windows update?

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For what it's worth, I first noticed this problem after installing "Replay Media Catcher". So, I just uninstalled this program, ran my registry cleaner, rebooted, and the problem seems to be cured.

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I'm having the same problem. My stream stops on all Youtube videos after about 1/4 the way through. I didn't start having this problem until sometime last week. Do you think it has something to do with Youtube converting all their movies over so they will run on the I-Phone?

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YouTube has been making a lot of changes lately. Sometimes half of my playlist doesn't work. Sunday, I couldn't get to youtube.com for hours. Right now, my whole playlist works; with some URLs that are over 3 months old!

And Xevor's simple method for making a YouTube URL still works!

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JW Player

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I also have this problem both with Firefox and Explorer! But I also have problem with downloading files, they stop in the middle in the same way as the streaming does.

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Im also having the same problem. Maybe something related to a windows update??

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I'm having the same problem too (on my desktop).
I reinstalled windows, applied all the latest patches from Windows upate.
The flash video worked for couple of days and then started giving this problem (again).
The last piece of software that I had installed was XviD-1.1.3-28062007.
However, the problem didnt resolve after uninstalling the same.

For some strange reason, I'm not encountering this problem on my laptop.
I think there is some problem with the latest version of Flash.


The problem goes away (for next few videos) if you uninstall flash, delete all registy enteries and then reinstall flash.

Ofcourse I don't think anyone wants to do this everytime you want to watch a video.

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same problem but in firefox ONLY, at some point I did install a flash ad blocker to FF but I removed it, just about then 4-6 weeks I have noticed the problem.
At first I just thought it was bandwidth issue but its every single streaming video.

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what I'm seeing is Flash will beging to progressivly load a video (red bar) and then part way thru it will stop. When the curser gets to that point playback stops and diagonal bars appear in the remainder of the progress bar area.

This seems to indicate that it's rebuffering to get the rest of the video, but it never completes.

Didn't have this problem with the windows media viewer, when it had to rebuffer, it would eventual pick up playback from where it left off.

Does this sound like what you are experiencing, or is this a more basic problem? And if so, could I get some idea what I can do about it? Short of asking MSNBC to go back to using the windows viewer ;)

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add me to the problem list....
videos load and play up to 3 or 4 % (initial buffer !?!?) then appear to rebuffer but there is no data-flow...help

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I think It's goverment censorship.I get shut down mostly when I go to anything dealing with 911 interviews.

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has anyone found a solution for this problem? i've tried IE and mozilla, and in both the video will load in its entirety, but then quick part way through. sometimes clearing the cache (using the clear private data) will allow the video to play all the way through. sometimes, though, that doesn't work. I found a setting in the prefs file for mozilla that had the cache disk size set to 50000 KB. I changed that to -1 which supposedly makes it infinite.

other than that, though, i'm stumped and annoyed. has anyone been able to fix this problem? I've had some problems in other programs with the nVidia firewall - could that be the problem?

thanks.

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Still doing it. I can forgive YouTube, but I thought MSNBC perhaps had a glitch in thier rollout of an all-flashplayer, all the time format... but no they are either victims as I am or they are allowing it intentionally.

If I end up subscribing to cable so I can watch Countdown, I will go out of my way to boycott all the sponsers of the on-line content at MSNBC.

Never thought I would say this but MS media player never gave me this much trouble.

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I removed the nVidia firewall and it seems to have fixed the problem. pretty surprised that a firewall creates this type of problem. I would've assumed that a program would have been tested rigorously for any conflicts, etc. anyways, i'm happy to have it fixed.

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removing nvidia firewall worked just fine for me. don't EVER install this piece of shit. if you already have it uninstall nvidia drivers , clean registry and then re-install without firewall

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Same problem here,for months already. I've been trying to fix it but no go. On my other computer, no problems whatsoever - it's just got Flash Player 9.0, this one has also got JW FLV Player 3.99.

Maybe that causes the problem, but I can't uninstall it - anyone ot a clue as how to do that?

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@andersen

IOU big time - just running the uninstall did it...I've not re-installed anything, movies run just fine now. thanx again :)

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....and quits again after 2 days... :@

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I have the same issue. Wondered if it might be Vista, but seems like some of you are XP.

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I'm not sure if I have exactly the same problem...but my playlist contains .swf files and they are getting cut off at the end. Looks like the progress timer only starts counting up/down after the file has completely loaded so if it takes 20 seconds for entire .swf to load and the video starts streaming immediately then I lose 20 seconds at the end of the video and it is cut short.

It only happens on first viewing - the seconds time around the .swf is already 100% loaded so entire movie plays.

any ideas? solutions?

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Everytime I start my computer, open IE 7, log on to Youtube, and start watching a video online. Somethimes I can watch 2 or 3 videos, sometimes only a few seconds of a clip. And every time the whole page freezes after the clip stops. And then I have to restart the comp. for Internet to work "properly".

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@bender - please see this [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=7492#msg40952]posting[/url]

@C-ad
sounds somewhat like a problem with your machine-

can you play .flv files locally on your machine?
are your windows, IE and flashplayer browser plugin all up to date?
can you play in other browsers such as FireFox or Opera?

do you have enough free space on the harddisk?
is your browser cache big enough and empty?
do you have ram memory enough?
do you know how to handle your firewall and antivirus program?

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Have a site which has FLV video for VIP members, people paid to see the vids (myself included) I have no problems (use FLV 3.8), on IE or firefox, clic and watch, BUT most of my friends that are trying to see the vids have the same problems described here by others. Will only load 10 to 30%, then stalls or quits. But on rare occasions slowly loads and they can watch. I played with one of the problem computer, cleaned up cache, change various settings, and worked for maybe 1 video then same problem. Am interested to see if you guys find a solution.

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@Pinball

can you find similarities among the problem machines?
size of ram, free hardisk, cache, allocated graphic ram or the like?
operating system, browser(s), updated flashplayer browserplugin?

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Sorry can't help much, just fiddled on the one laptop, and it had other issues as well so I thought it was the computer, but when my other friends emailed and said they had the same problem, and many more calls came in to the owner of the website and complained with the same issues, (wanted money back as they could not see the vids) but I have no idea re their operating systems. But it is not everyone, some say they had no problems. The laptop would play the downloaded FLV files no problem. Just had problems downloading.

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@Pinball

its not much of a problem description you offer!
but, as you tell it sometimes work, we can deduce the implementation cant be completely wrong-
have you considered that it might be the server that cant handle the load?
it would also fit your description...

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I agree I'm not much help, only have very limited computer knowledge. Server problem? I doubt it, the problem laptop is my next door neighbor on the same provider as me, but does have a slower connection speed as his laptop is on wi fi. So I tried it with other types of files,quicktime,wmv, and works perfectly. Tried it again yesterday, now here's something weird,when I started playing the video approx (50 meg) it would play the first few seconds,pause,etc.. like a typical slow connection speed,and it would stall at some point, I then right clicked a link on the same page to open a new window on the site, and while viewing the 2nd page, the video would download further, I'd close the 2nd page and it would stall again. Eventually I could download the whole thing by going to the 2nd page?!? The laptop has lots of hard drive space, I cleaned out the cache,and made sure there were no extra programs running in the background. It uses XP home, I use XP pro.

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It happens to me too. It seems like it happens on vids that are political mostly, like someone has hacked into them to try to stop you from watching. Maybe I'm crazy but it seems to be done on purpose.

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Get a Mac...

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Same thing.

IE on Vista stops midway through random youtube videos. Firefox will open the same video and play it fine. Doesn't happen all the time, just after watching a few youtube videos in a row.

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I have the same problem. I thought it was because I am on dial-up, but I have the latest Adobe and I still cannot load any videos.

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I am having the same problem. Can watch a few streams, then the video plays stoppy starty like misses 1 or 2 secs then does the same thing till the end of the video or the video just stops (the audio stops just before the video does) This is also happening with premiere pro 2 as well.
i have 2gb ram laptop, 3.2ghz, pentium 4, xp serv pack 2, a fast broadband connection.

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I am getting the exact same issue when I view:
[url=http://www.umaine.edu/videos/main/rvtest2.html]http://www.umaine.edu/videos/main/rvtest2.htmlclick here[/url]
Usually, exactly half way though the video. Most of the clips are less than two minutes. Would anyone mind seeing if the video stalls for them?
In watching any of the videos that come up there, does anyone get the same error?

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@Jonathan - stalls for me too (win xp, IE7 flash9)

try using a [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Media_Player]jw-mediaplayer[/url]
- you can download it from the top of this page (click "Scripts" select player, look for download)
also make sure to read the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/readme.html]readme[/url]

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@Andersen - Thank you.

I can try to use jw-mediaplayer...
However I am trying to design with flash 7 users in mind.
Also, I have put a bit of effort into setting up dynamic random video loading. Does JWMP work the same way as normal NetStream video?
(I am a novice Action Script programmer, so this has been a learning process to get as far as I have.)

Is there an encoding fix? Certain codecs, versions, or settings that don't cause errors?

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I don't know how to use this information but maybe someone else will.
Using a video that I knew to always stall out and the help code provided in flash, this is the onStatus output I got:

status (0 seconds)
Level: status
Code: NetStream.Play.Start

status (0.992 seconds)
Level: status
Code: NetStream.Buffer.Full

status (16.927 seconds)
Level: status
Code: NetStream.Buffer.Flush

status (21.338 seconds)
Level: status
Code: NetStream.Buffer.Empty

-Exactly when it displayed Buffer Empty the playback stopped. This makes sense... Is there any work-around to prevent it from flushing the buffer?

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@Jonathan - please see the page with the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/streaming.html]streaming examples[/url] for the jw-players

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Yes i too have the same problem. The status bar shows the video is full, but play back only goes for 10to 20 seconds. Iam using IE 7. This happense for some videos only. Santosh.

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im having the same problem, i can watch 2 seconds of videos on you tube, 4 seconds on break, with safari or firefox. im running mac osx on a pc so i think its safe to say this is not a windows only problem. i do have an nvidia card gonna try to figure out how to remove that firewall.

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this isnt a proble from Youtube i can bet!!, i have my own videos and have the same problem, my video length is about 19 sec, but when i play with JW player sometimes stops 2 seconds before or sometimes play full, just dont get it :S

http://www.alamedida.net/sitios/stt2k8/laschicas.php

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Same with myself, I cannot get it working:
http://www.easyrecovery.co.uk

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@Cristian Cienfue

I looked at your link and noticed that your player clipped off the last 1 or 2 seconds (in FF 2.0.0.1). No such problem in IE 7.0.57).

But what is most disturbing to me is that I could see the buffering graphic in the center of the player flashing all the way through. It flashed on and off about once per second in FF and once per 2 seconds in IE...all the way through the entire movie. I guarantee this is not my internet connection. I'm on a T1 line.

BTW... this is not just you. I'm having the same exact problems with my own 5MB videos. I'm using JW FLV Player 3.13. I hope someone can work out these annoying little bugs soon, because I'm tearing my hair out.

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Everyone is posting the problem. I think we've established the problem already. Does anyone have an actual solution?

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same problem here, looking for a solution, sooooooooo annoying.

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@sriPathi - your video "testing1.flv" has no metadata at all when i check!

from the readme: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/readme.html bc.. If the progressbar isn't running with your FLV file, or if your video dimensions are messed-up, your FLV file doesn't have correct metadata inserted. You can fix this by using the small tool available at www.buraks.com/flvmdi/

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SO GAY
this happens to me 2. only sometimes not all the time.
i dont understand all that computer talk anyway.
has there been an answer to this yet?

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Hi Andersen,
It works fine now. Thanks for your kind help.

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****from ^^up there^^******** 12 posts up
bc.. I had the same problem running XP. I could not watcha video, play iTunes, etc. I created a new user, logged on, and sure enough everything worked fine with audio and video. Neither was working before. I then logged back on with my old account and everything was working again. I deleted the new user I created and all is well."


*NO GO* on my XP box. Creating a new user? Yes - vids that were broken? All fixed.
Logged back onto my regular user and nope. Still broken. Thanks though.

aloha

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Hi, i had the same problem, i used superC program to convert mpg to flv, all my video stoped around 20th sec, i installed the FLVMDIGUI program at www.buraks.com/flvmdi/ and i converted all flv files with the flv metaData injector, and the problem is fix now, thanks a lot, my flv video play very well and completly.
merci beaucoup !
claudeS

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I have the same problem and I'm on a MacBook Leopard, so I don't know why this is happening. Before, it rarely occurs, but now, even though I load the page again, it doesn't clear. So, I thought that if I left it for the whole night, it would finish loading. Sadly, it didn't finish loading, and just said that it was full but stopping at about 2 minutes into the video, it stopped, acting like it had gone through the whole video.

It also happens to Macs so it probably is more likely to be a server problem, since if it was a program, it wouldn't happen to a Mac since most applications only run on PCs.

Help needed for Mac user :]
Grace

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I'VE HAD STREAMING PROBLEMS FOR MANY MONTHS. YOUTUBE,SPORTS AUDIO BROADCASTS AND EVEN DOWNLOADING ANTISPYWARE, REGISTRY,ETC. WOULD HAVE TO TRY MANY TIMES TO GET A COMPLETE SUCESSFUL DOWNLOAD.
FINALLY CALLED TIME WARNER,ROAD RUNNER, AND THE TECH FINALLY ASK ME TO HOOK THE MODEM TO MY LAPTOP ETHER NET PORT. THIS BYPASSES THE ROUTER. V-I-O-L-A, WHATEVER.? EVERYTHING WORKED GREAT.
NEXT I CALLED BELKIN TECH SUPPORT AND HE GUIDED ME TO A BELKIN PAGE AND HAD ME UNCHECK THE"TCM" BOX . REATTACHED THE ROUTER TO THE ETHER NET AND THE MODEM TO THE ROUTER. EVERYTHING STILL WORKED GREAT. DISCONNECTED THE ROUTER FROM THE LAPTOP ETHER NET AND WENT "WIRELESS" STILL FINE. HOPES THIS HELPS SOMEBODY.
YOU CAN LOOK UP TCM IN WICKAPEDIA OR SEARCH" TRELLIS CODED MODULATION" SEEMS SO SIMPLE NOW. HIND SIGHT IS 20/20. DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T TRY TO ISOLATE THE PROBLEM MYSELF?

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Exact thing happens to me but only if I close the lid on my laptop i.e standby
Happens every time. I just restart and it's perfect again till I close it over...

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OK - Here's a partial solution. For me, when watching vids on the Youtube site, they load about halfway then hang. This is fairly consistent.
BUT - when I embed a video on my website, it plays perfectly. No hangups at all. This leads me to believe that the problem may actually be with the Youtube site itself.

I know this isn't a total solution, but it does work. Anybody can set up a simple website at http://jottit.com (free) and embed all the vids you like, and they'll work.

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I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I AM WATCHING A ONLINE VEDIO THE PROGRESS BAR FOR THE VEDIO WILL GO STEADILY TO A CERTAIN POINT AND FILL UP THE BAR ALL AT ONE TIME BUT WHEN THE VEDIO REACHES THAT CERTAIN POINT OF PROGRESS IT STOP AND RETURNS TO START SCREEN I DONT KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM I AM USING A ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 9AND I ALSO HAVE A KASPERSKY INTERNET SECURITY7 WHAT CAN I DO?

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Responding to the FIRST post in this thread. I have the EXACT same thing, and it started when I installed a router on my network. Dont know why.

Edit: Just saw this on Yah answers - fits my symptoms... now all I have to figure out is why a new router would cause intermittent disconnects. What a pain... its always something....


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If you lose Internet connection, even for a second, the video will stop loading and the red bar will automatically go straight to the end. It can only be fixed by deleting the page off your Internet history and loading it again
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Responding to first post- Mhmm... I have been having this problem for over a year, maybe two now. I just ignore it usually. It only happens if the video is over 15 minutes long.

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Blegh, I'm having the same problem, just, it causes ALL sound and all videos/media files on my computer to stop.

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I bought Flash Video MX 2 days ago. I converted a .wmv file to flash. It runs fine before it is published to my website. On my website it stalls 3 minutes into a 5 minute Video. Flash Video MX is looking into it. I sent the link I published it on, to a couple of friends and it stalls on their computers also. I've searched everywhere in google, and this is the first place I've seen that has the same problem. I tried "Anderson's" player also, and it still stalls in the same spot. I've tried other flash files I have too, they are all stalling between 2 to 3 minutes. I hope someone here figures it out. Thanks

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One more thing. I've tried 3 different players. They all get the same result. It is not the players. I've also noticed that the smaller/very low quality the video is, the longer it plays, which is definitely not the result wanted. I believe it has something to do with .flv files.

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Hi guys, I have the same problem, the video is playing and like 14 seconds later or less (of a 2min movie) the video just shows the loading spinner and instead of showing the time in the control bar where it stopped it shows 00:00 and doesn't play any further, please help, this is the last output just when the video stops:

bc.. view: time: 36.884,210.046
view: time: 36.884,210.046
view: time: 36.884,210.046
view: time: 36.999,209.931
view: time: 36.999,209.931
view: time: 36.999,209.931
view: time: 37.302,209.628
view: time: 37.302,209.628
view: time: 37.302,209.628
view: time: 37.433,209.497
view: time: 37.433,209.497
view: time: 37.433,209.497
view: time: 37.59,209.34
view: time: 37.59,209.34
view: time: 37.59,209.34
view: time: 0,246.93
view: time: 0,246.93
view: time: 0,246.93
view: state: 1,undefined
view: state: 1,undefined
view: state: 1,undefined

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You can see that it returns to time 00:00 but it stops there, doesn't want to play anymore, and I can't explain why it goes back to 0.

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it's your server, probably gzipping flv files

if i play your video #4 from your site, the % loaded doesn't work and the video fails after a few seconds

if i play your video #4 from my server (Apache), everything is ok

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is there an answer to the problem of the video only playing about 30 seconds of a 4 minute video

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rascal, how can the server be doing that to one file but not the others? I question that excuse. I've had longer files in this player and didn't have the problem.

And, if I play this flv in another player from the same place, it doesn't happen?

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One other thing:

If I refresh my page and go to play the file, it sometimes will play up to two minutes before the percent number starts flashing (this is after the file has completely loaded) and then the old ten-second countdown starts and the file stops playing.

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And, finally rascal, if the server is doing this gzipping thing, how do I get it to stop?

it's pretty useless to say blithely, "Oh it's dadda dah dah..." with no suggestion of how to make the fix...

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Have the same problem: it downloads the youtube video (or other site flash video)but it plays only 2-3 sec. And sometimes it plays the video but without sound. I'm using Opera browser 9.5, with Internet Explorer it works fine.
I use AMD 64 X2 4200, Asus motherboard, Ati Radeon 2600Pro videocard, onboard soundcard 7.1, Kaspersky 7 antivirus, Utorrent, Strong DC, conected to Internet with router.

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I have problems with large files over 30mb (110mb typical size) where the player seems to have a built in playback limit of 10 minutes, but I can not find the parameters to change this to 1hr 33mins playback or 120mb playback.

I have searched and search and that is how I ended up here (none the wiser)

running on linux server with apache


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@Kiwi - please see this [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=6523#msg31156]thread[/url] and [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=6606#msg32471]this[/url]

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thanks

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The issue it turns as mentioned many times is the metadata in the file. I wrongly assumed the flv transcoder I was using had this built in (it is not). So upon a huge search of the net it seems one of the better mpg2 [over 2gb file sizes] to flv converters is from the people at ImToo (google it).

@Andersen - thanks for the help and pointers above.

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i have the same problem but only in firefox and i think is just for flash updates ill try to get the latest now !!!

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*penis time!*

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i have the same problem, flash player seems to load movies two or three seconds in, then the bar fills up and says its fully loaded when its not...

the person who said get a mac needs to find a way out off his own arse. my friend has the same problem on his imac...

i vote flash 9 is just terrible overall. most flash uploaders and players seem to be terrible these days.. :/

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I am having this same issue. Does anyone know what the solution is? Seems Kiwi has found something, but I am having a hard time understanding it.

Thanks.

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It seems to me that my problem may have to do w/ disk space on my main harddrive. It seemed to happen only on longer videos. I noticed that I was almost out of HD space. I cleaned out some useless programs and this seemed to have cleared it up.

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streaming stops for me without fail at 2 seconds...the only time it will work is when i restart my pc..then i can play a vid or two and then it dies again....cleared my cache, hard reboot of my modem, nothng is working....is there a fix?

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what fixed it for me was this.

I had a bad ethernet cable to my router, i replaced it.

and i reinstalled Flvplayer

and that fixed it for me.

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