Videos Stops Playing

On April 11 there was an automatic update of the Chrome browser to Version 11.7.700.169 of Flash. After the update the videos on our website (FLV format, Resolution 320x240) lose the audio and stop playing at approximately 22 seconds into the video. The videos continued to play properly on Internet Explorer 8 and 10.
This morning I installed the Flash Update 11.7.700.169 when prompted and now the videos have the same problem in Internet Explorer 10. I didn't install the update on another computer and the videos play through to the end.
We have advertisers who pay to sponsor our videos so changing settings on our computers will not help. We cannot make any changes to the video format or resolution with the platform provided by the company that hosts our website.
Will there be an update to fix this problem?
Thank you.

The same problem surfaced here as well.
I had the beta installed for a little while, but had to roll back to the 11.6 release where this problem was not present.
Win7 64bit, Mozilla Firefox 20.0.1, Flash Player latest beta again.
I was hoping the beta ironed this bug out by the time the new 11.7 stable gets released, but alas they did not.
Fun fact about this problem: it has to do something with threads in the flash player process(es) and the "starving" of them.
If they don't get enough attention or have to wait for resources, regardless of HARDWARE acceleration, both browser and flash, it stops entirely while the video continues forward for some time.
An amusing behavior of it is that whenever i watch youtube videos and this happens, i press pause->play, the video waits for the audio to catch up and THEN continues.
Someone fix this already.

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Other than installing the latest Firefox updates I have NOT changed the software on my machine. I run Linux by the way. I do not think this is a Linux problem because (1) it was all working before and (2) my son who runs both Mac OS X *and* Windows is also seeing the same problem. We both use Firefox as our browser on all our platforms.
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Additionally the problem occurs whether or not I log into YouTube.
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(That is not so outlandish I think. Microsoft WAS at one point caught mangling web pages going to certain web browsers other than IE. And these days Google wants to dominate the Internet just as badly as Microsoft does, so why not pull dirty tricks too?)
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Hello,
There have been some issues with Flash 11 in the recent past. This could be a manifestation of that issue. Kindly check this response below to see if this helps you in viewing Flash videos.
Also, if you want to check if this is a flash problem and specifically on youtube, you can try the HTML5 version of Youtube. In this, there are no plugins involved, and the browser natively renders the videos. You can signup for the HTML5 trial by visiting http://youtube.com/html5. Please try that and check if the issue goes away.
Also, in this case, Google might not be doing anything sinister - they generally try to be standards compliant too. You can definitely try installing Google Chrome and test this issue, but we definitely would want you to continue to be a Firefox user :)
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To disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player:
#Go to this [http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html#main_Solve_video_playback_issues Adobe Flash Player Help page].
#Right-click on the Flash Player logo on that page.
#Click on '''Settings''' in the context menu. The Adobe Flash Player Settings screen will open.
# Click on the icon at the bottom-left of the Adobe Flash Player Settings window to open the Display panel. <br/> <br/>[[Image:fpSettings1.PNG]] <br/>
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# Click '''Close''' to close the Adobe Flash Player Settings Window.
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<hr>
Also, try this one too
Recent crashes of certain multimedia contents (this includes Youtube videos, certain flash games and other applications) in conjunction with Firefox are most probably caused by a recent Flash update and/or a malfunctioning browser plugin such as Real Player.
In order to remedy the problem, please perform the steps mentioned in these Knowledge Base articles:
* [[Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems]]
* [[Flash 11.3 crashes]]
* [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
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* http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071?tstart=0
* http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html
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