Mac Mini (latest) trouble playing flash videos

Hi,
I have searched around & found lots of people with issues playing video on the mini, but nothing exactly the same as my problem. I have a new mac mini with lion - & flash installed. Latest Updates. That's all that is installed on it. I have it hooked up to my tv via hdmi.
All I want to do it watch tv via safari off the major sites (flash vieo), but on some site only it frezes the video or buffers baddly or just stops & hangs the video all thoghther. I try the same site & video on my iMac upstairs (further away from the router) & the video plays soothly & without problems!
Anyone have any idea what is going on? - Its driving me crazy!

Hardware Overview:
  Model Name:          Mac mini
  Model Identifier:          Macmini5,1
  Processor Name:          Intel Core i5
  Processor Speed:          2.3 GHz
  Number of Processors:          1
  Total Number of Cores:          2
  L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
  L3 Cache:          3 MB
  Memory:          2 GB
  Boot ROM Version:          MM51.0077.B10
  SMC Version (system):          1.76f0
I'm not sure if it has integrated video? I think so?
So I had a look in the console & the only thing it reports is:
PM Kernel: IOSurface: Buffer allocation size is zero
No idea what that means.

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