Can I stop Adobe Flash from switching to HD/higher res video?

I'm attempting to use HBO GO via Chrome on a Windows 7 PC. When the streaming video begins to play, the resolution is relatively low but the picture streams well, dropping virtually no frames. Then within a minute, the resolution increases dramatically, but the video no longer plays smoothly or watchably. The software is kind enough to insist that the video has been "optimized," apparently unaware that in arbitrarily increasing the resolution, the video becomes unwatchable and decidedly unoptimal. Is there a way to stop this "optimization" so that the video resolution remains lower (hence actually optimizing my experience by making it possible to watch the video)?
Thanks!

That would be a Chrome setting. Most likely it's using the PPAPI plug-in ("PepperFlash").
Try disabling it and let either the standard (NPAPI) plug-in play it or if HBO-Go has it, use HTML5 video, which requires no plug-in at all.

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