Video won't play and freezes computer

Whenever I try to play a video, either from the computers hard drive that I have saved or on the internet (vimeo, youtube, etc) it'll start to freeze and not play. The music/sound will play but the video freezes up and so does the computer. I thought it was just the flash player not being updated or something, but it is and still has problems. What should I do?
Also I don't think it's Safari. I've tried using firefox and chrome but same problem happens with either one. Or if I have a video on my desktop and i try to do a quick preview it'll freeze.

yes znd VLC comes with all common codecs no need to install any but is this happened with all your video files or specific video types, if this is happened with specific files please can you tell me what is the file type i will try to download one and see if it will cause the same issue with me or not

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