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bobland

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 51

[SOLVED] Web Video Difficulties

I can't seem to get more then about 80 seconds of YouTube, Vimeo or other web videos to play.  Strangely enough, I can play through any Hulu video with no problem.

This seemed to happen suddenly as I've not had this problem before.  The only thing different is I upgraded my internet service from 3 mb to 5 mb.  The upgrade occured over the phone with no change in hardware other then what CableOne did over the phone.  I called them earlier about this.  They said that all that changed was my allowable speed.

I've cleared the Firefox 3.6 cache and played around with increasing and decreasing the cache amount.  No difference.

I can view the same videos in VirtualBox with XP using FF 3.5.  No problem there.

Last edited by bobland (2010-03-06 01:13:39)

bobland

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Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] Web Video Difficulties

Fixed!
I had installed KDE 4.4.  Somehow, there was a dire conflict with xfce4 which was my initial vanilla DE/WM.  On a whim, I removed all traces of KDE and the video is now working as expected.