Problems with Flash Video

OK - I have had intermittent problems with Flash video, basically it gets choppy, usually after about 20 minutes - half an hour of watching - recently this problem has gotten worse - coinciding with a recent system update perhaps? - it's more or less anytime I stream something, and it happens on all browsers, even when the movie has clearly downloaded and is buffered way in advance of the playhead.
On 2 occasions recently leaving the movie to play just to see what happens has led to a kernel panic.
I've heard alot about Flash video generally being a resource hog and not playing ball sometimes - is there a way to solve this issue? Things I have tried - reset sound to 16 bit 44.1 khz in audio/midi manager; fixed permissions; run Tech Tool - everything seems to be fine hardware wise - I think there are some incompatible driver issues that are meesing up RAM usage but have no idea what or how to solve this... Any ideas anybody?
Thanks.

If, as you show, you are running 10.5.2, that is out of date. You need to install the 10.5.8 combo updater.
It is also possible that your FlashPlayer is out of date.
The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
You should first uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first before installing. You must also carry out a permission repair after installing anything from Adobe.

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merci a tous pour les nombreuses réponse. j'ai dû mal a les lire vue que je ne lit que le français. je vous remercié encore une fois amicalement. Blanchette 2.
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:50:19 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I'm having problems with Flash Videos (Youtube and ESPN)
What I meant is Hardware Acceleration off (disabled).
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quote snip snip>>
Flash Video Encoder Wizard
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> I've encoded a number of videos in the FLV format(using
both Flash Video
> encoder and Quicktime), using standard preset settings,
inserted in
> webpage
> using dreamweaver standard - Insert Media - Flash Video.
When I try to
> play the
> videos, online or testing in browser, the video does not
play the whole
> way
> through. It'll play 15 sec into the video and then stop,
although it seems
> to
> have some of the rest of the video if you play around
with the controller.
> I've
> looked on the Flash encoding forum (other people have
the same problem)
> and
> looked on the site for more info but cannot find any.
>

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https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html
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Hi, sorry for my bad english.
I have a new MBP and big problem with flash videos.
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