Streaming video causes hang

Hello. My 15" Macbook Pro started hanging when playing streaming video. Early on it worked fine, and then occasionally Hulu would cause it to lock up, mostly in full screen mode. Now it's at the point where just about any streaming video in any browser whether full screen or not will cause a hang with seconds or at most a few minutes. The screen will go black and the last few miliseconds of audio will play in a loop. After forcing a shutdown the crash reporter comes up on restart, usually with a similar backtrace. Skype will also immediately crash the Mac. Non-streaming video plays fine. Anyone come across this?

How large is your HD AND _how much space do you have left?_
Make sure you have the latest versions for your OS of the following:
RealPlayer
Flip4Mac
VLC Media Player
Perian (AVI and FLV support)
Adobe Flash Player Software
Repair permissions & restart your computer after the installations.
If you already have the mentioned players then do the following if you have not already done so:
Boot up from your install DVD and run *"Repair Disk"* from the Utility menu.
Boot up from your Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard Install DVD while holding down the "c" key.
Select the language you wish to use, and then choose "Disk Utility" from the menu bar.
Your HD should appear in a panel on the left hand side of the window which opens. Select it and then click on the "repair disk" button in the right hand section of the window.
Once this process has been completed restart your computer and repair permissions directly from Disk Utility.
If Disk Utility is unable to complete the repair, you will need to use a stronger 3rd party utility like DiskWarrior, Techtool PRO (not Deluxe) or Drive Genius.
"Oh and also, I have the red light in the headphone port which I cannot get rid of,"
Do a forum search for the solutions. This issue has been posted here numerous times.
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Ever since I updated my flash player to v 10.1.102.64 I've been having issues with watching flash streams. The issue is that whenever I watch a stream it completely kills my computers performance which means I pretty much can't play anything while watching a stream. I've tried watching livestreams, ustreams, own3d.tv-streams, blip videos and youtube videos with pretty much the same result. Some streams seem to be better than others, but I haven't been able to find out what actually makes a stream better.
I'm fairly sure what's happening is that the streams are, for some reason, eating the performance of my gfx cards since windows shows both cpu- and memory load remaining pretty much constant. When opening a stream I also get the sort of small flicker across the screens that you sometimes get when changing graphics settings. After that my ingame fps just plummets and the game feels really sluggish.
I did not have this issue before I updated my flash player and run out of ideas on how to fix it without going back on an older flash player.
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Pls help me to fix an issue with my playbook browser. The embedded flash player is not working... Unable to play the streaming videos... Browser is hanging many times. Restart done, cleared history etc.. Still doesn't work.
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Hello ak_kanan,
Welcome to the forums.
Try doing the following. In the browser swipe down from the top and choose Settings, now choose Content, here where it says Enable Flash change this to Off. Now try going to the website that was not working (it will not work again this is fine) Once on the page swipe down from the top again and this time enable the Flash setting. Now reload the page and test to see if you have the same issue.
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Hi, without a link to one that does that, it's impossible to tell much... might be trying to do some sound it can't.
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Since buying a new computer, I have had perpetual issues with flash running correctly. I have always been a fan of chrome and naturally that has been my primary browser for the life of this computer....at some point in time, the flash (either after being updated/or @ some point) quit streaming videos on certain websites....(showtime anytime, and divx movies from places like movie-forumz being the most important.) At first, after doing some research on the web, I was led to believe this was a chrome issue and tried to do the workaround of disabling either the pepper flash or the adobe flash in the plugins section of chrome....this did nothing for me. I even posted a question on the chrome forums to see if there was any way they could maybe lead me in the right direction. Well, they gave me some generic things to try (most of which I had already done) and were not a huge help. Since then, I've tried completely uninstalling/removing/reinstalling everything from chrome/shockwave player/flash player/frirefox etc. but to no avail. Recently, since I thought this was not going to get fixed in chrome, I thought I would try to stream videos from internet explorer. After making sure everything was set up (since, I had never used it) I came across the same problem....the same videos will not play in internet explorer as well. This is what lead me here. Thanks in advance......(I hope.) I have a fairly new computer. Specs below:
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Since this is also happening with IE, I'm not sure a Chromium bug is relevant. While you might suspect Flash is to blame, but it's also possible other issues are at play (network throttling, server code, third party utilities/services, etc.)
Taking a look at the locations you've outlined on the Chrome bug:
www.showtimeanytime.com (loads, but will not play video, also does not show the length of the video as if it never actually began to load)
I just tried this with Chrome 25.0.1364.172 m on Windows 8. I had to install the Widevine Media Optimizer to get video to play. Have you done this? Have you tried contacting Widevine to see if they have any advice? Once I installed this and restarted the browser I had no problems playing from Showtime. I haven't seen any recent posts about Showtime, so I suspect this isn't a widespread issue.
http://www.putlocker.com/file/DC54509DC05BAC99# (never actually plays, just continually looks like it buffers) any video on
This link was broken and I can't seem to find another putlocker video link. However, have you tried reaching out to putlocker to see if they have any ideas? Given that this appears to be a fairly popular filesharing site, I would imagine we'd see a lot of complaints if Flash was not working properly here. To date, I've never seen any reports on this forum.
www.xvideos.com (hangs @1% until video is fully downloaded, then plays.)
I'm blocked from viewing this site. It's possible that this site doesn't allow streaming and instead requires the entire video to be downloaded before playing. Again, you should contact them to see what the proper experience should be.

Embed streaming video from my own Server into InDesign CS5

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Hi, I've been testing couple of devices with the flash movie site Veoh. I've tested N95, N97, N900, Iphone 4, and 7230 and one more older model of Nokia. Only N900 and Iphone 4 worked well with flash videos on Veoh.com. No doubt, IPhone 4 gave the best experience with Veoh. It is the only recommend phone to use with that site.
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I will test C5-00 with the above mentioned skyfire web browser cause it has the same OS as E71:
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        * Symbian OS version 9.3
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        * Size: 2.2"
        * Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
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E71:
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http://get.skyfire.com/dl_nokia.php
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The firewall log can be configured on the third tab in the window for the firewall settings, where you can turn the firewall on and off completely.
From your tests, though, it does not seem to be the firewall. However, to be sure, it would be good to check the log. It will help to eliminate the firewall as the culprit and you may find it handy in the future, too. ;-) Just don't forget to turn the log off again after you are done because it may cause some performance penalty on your system while on.
From what you write, it seems as if I should give a little networking background on the ip addresses you'll see. Your setup is (or should be) a modem connected to the WAN/Internet port of the WRT. The computer is connected into a LAN port of the WRT.
Your router has two IP addresses (that's what makes it a router): a WAN address and a LAN address. The WAN address is the address assigned by the ISP. It is a normal internet IP address. Everyone is able to send packets to this IP address. The WAN address is the one reported by whatismyipaddress.com, it should be listed in the dyndns record and it is the address that your router shows on the Status page. It's the public IP address of your router. Dyndns maps your dyndns.org name to that IP address.
Your router also has an IP address on the LAN side. You can configure it to be whatever you want. The default is 192.168.1.1 with netmask 255.255.255.0 and it is better to leave it like that or at least inside the network 192.168.*.*. 192.168 is a special, reserved IP address range for private networks. Basically, routers in the internet are not supposed to forward addresses in this range. That makes them suitable for private LANs as the packets never can get anywhere. Most people using Linksys routers have there LAN in 192.168.1.*.
The router acts as gateway, which means it forwards packets from PCs in the LAN to the internet and back. As all your PCs in your LAN share a single WAN IP address, the gateway does address translation (NAT). This works only in one direction: from the inside to the outside. The router remembers when a PC in your LAN sends something out and accepts the responses in and sending them back to the PC. If something comes in from the internet which cannot be associated with a ongoing communication the packet is dropped unless you use port forwarding.
All computers in your LAN either have a static IP address assigned or use DHCP to get it automatically. The router has a DHCP server as well which gives out IP address from 192.168.1.100-149 if not changed. With a router with default settings static IP addresses can be in the range of 192.168.1.2-99 and 150-254.
ipconfig /all reports your IP address in your LAN, i.e. an address 192.168.1.*. The gateway in this output should be 192.168.1.1 which is your router. And packet no in the LAN address range 192.168.1.* is send to the router which forwards the packets into the internet.
An address 192.168.1.* should not appear as internet address in the Status page of the router nor should it appear at dyndns.
Port forwarding is used to operate a server in the LAN. By default, a server in the LAN cannot be reached from the internet. You have to configure port forwarding for this. You configure that traffic bound for a specific port (e.g. TCP port 80 for http) on your WAN IP address is forwarded to the same port on a specific LAN IP address. If your server runs on 192.168.1.50 than traffic to your WAN IP address port 80 is forwarded to 192.168.1.50 port 80. That way your HTTP server can be reached from the internet. As you can only configure a fixed IP address in port forwarding it is recommended that the server uses a static IP address and not DHCP as in the latter case the IP address may change over time...
O.K. so much for networking. I hope that makes things a little clearer and you can verify that your setup is how it is intended to be.
I suggest the following: on the router's security page there is an option to block WAN requests. Remove the check if it is set (meaning: do not block). After you did that change you should be able to ping your WAN address (e.g. ping xxxx.dyndns.org) from the internet. That way we know that it is on the correct address.
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O.K. that should be enough for the moment...

Safari will not play streaming video or audio

Hi everyone,
I have had my iBook for a year and never even tried to take advantage of streaming video or audio b/c I had a dial-up connetion until very recently. Now that I have a high speed connection I would like to watch trailers and listen to music on myspace. I cannot watch trailers at www.apple.com/trailers/ or any video on myspace.com. Nor can I listen to music (I think they are xml files) on myspace.com. I'm currently running on Mac OSX 10.3.9 and Safari 1.3.1. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Christopher

Hi
Well I have the opposite effect here - the video plays fine on my MBP, yet not on my Intel iMac. On the iMac the video panel never appears. Rather tells me it needs Flash.
Safari is the same on both systems (or at least that's what I think). No plugin blocks are present. To test if the Preference files might be causing the problem, On the iMac, I moved to the desktop from the Macromedia folder in ~/Library/Preferences folder the folder inside the SharedObjects folder. Restarted the system/Safari but the video still does not play.
In the past, Layers magazine has not been a problem, however, I haven't viewed one for several months. Given what others have posted, there seems to be an oddity here that is not machine or Safari specific. I'll have to investigate more when I have time tomorrow.
Try the Video from another user account. See if this is system-wide, or just specific to your user account. BTW, video played fine on the iMac in Firefox.

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