Flash videos start having messed up sound

kelnoky · 2011-03-31 22:06:01

Hello there.

I never shutdown my PC and thus also not my programs, including the browser. After my browser (I've tried Firefox, Chromium and Opera, all with the same result) has been running for a while (1-3 days) flash videos will playback with messed up sound. By that I mean that the sound will stutter heavily and loop that stuttering second over and over. I then just shutdown the browser, start it up again and watch the video again. Then it takes a day or so and the same stuff happens. It's not a mindboggling hassle to restart my browser every other day, but I've had this problem for *ages* now (maybe a year or something like that) and I'd really like to know if there's a way to fix it.

Last edited by kelnoky (2011-03-31 22:06:45)

karol · 2011-03-31 22:55:12

I think that happens when flash crashes. It happens to me if I use it a lot for a prolonged period of time - like whole day watching movies / listening to music via flash-based players.
The sound stutters just like in your case and it goes away after I restart the browser.

As long as it involves flash, you will suffer as I don't know any way of permanently fixing it. You can move to html5-based media or download the videos and watch them from your hard drive.

kelnoky · 2011-03-31 23:07:03

Ah, alright. Well, "flash crashed" is a sufficient explanation for me. If it's just that, at least I know what's happening. I see people mentioning youtube scripts to download stuff and play it with mplayer a lot, but there is more than one of them. Which one is the best / easiest?

lives2evil · 2011-04-01 00:01:08

I would prefer flashgot.

karol · 2011-04-01 00:03:48

I use clive / cclive and later manually run mplayer.

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Flash videos start having messed up sound

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