Choppy video on certain sites/flash players only

I bought an Acer laptop just this week. I've been having issues with video appearing rather choppy, as if looking at a poorly done animated gif. It's not constant, only on certain websites. For example I can watch a video on YouTube as smooth as cable tv but if I try to watch a video on Failblog.org I encounter very choppy video. At first I thought it was perhaps the quality of videos themself on these other sites, so i checked them out on my desktop and they play just fine. I tried disabling hardware accelleration, encounter the problem in both Chrome and IE, and have made sure I'm using the most recent version of flash. I'll post information below regarding my system and flash installation.
System:
Acer Aspire Laptop Model # 7741Z-4643
Processor: Intel Pentium CPU p6100 @ 2.00GHz 2.00GHz(DUAL CORE) with 3MB L3 Cache
Installed memory and storage: 3.00 GB DDR3 SDRAM and 250 GB HD with 189 GB free space
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0
System Type: 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
Network: Wireless 802.11b/g/n
Flash:
In Google Chrome it states "You have version 10,2,154,12 installed"
In Internet Explorer it states "You have version 10,2,152,26 installed"
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling as well from the control panel > programs > uninstall. The logo on your test/version page plays fine.
Protection:
Malware: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Virus: AVG
I've disabled AVG from running in the background and on startup due to conflicts with malwarebytes and general resource hog issues I've had with it in the past. I've last scanned this morning and came up with no infections with both programs. Both have been updated to the latest libraries available for detection.
Any help I can get would be great and I apprecciate your time.

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/hardware-acceleration/
In Firefox Safe mode these changes are effective:
*all extensions are disabled
*the default theme is used (no persona)
*userChrome.css and userContent.css are ignored
*the default toolbar layout is used
*the Javascript JIT compiler is disabled
*hardware acceleration is disabled
*plugins are not affected

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