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Venge
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 03:54 Edited at: 27th Jan 2011 05:21
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Soooo, interesting problem that just popped up a couple days ago.

Sometimes, when I try to watch a Youtube video (and just now, a video on an unrelated site), the first second or two will buffer and start playing, and then my screen goes black. Everything locks up, and a few seconds after that the computer clock on my laptop's secondary LCD stops running. I have to do a hard reset to fix it.

Using Chrome and Win7.

Most recent video that caused it is http://achievementhunter.com/archive/episode.php?id=1932. I've tried to watch it twice now, with the same result. The advertisement at the start will buffer and play, but there's only about half a second of audio from the actual episode before everything dies. I've already watched that video last weekend though, it's just in the past day or two that this started.

However, it will play just fine in Firefox.

I'm wondering if it's some video codec that could be causing this, or if I've picked up some kind of virus. I'm running a full system scan at the moment, usually takes a couple hours.

EDIT: Well, Avast didn't find anything.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 10:31
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Try disabling hardware acceleration in the flash applet, it could be a graphic card driver problem.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 10:50
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I don't think that would be the issue, since it works fine in FF. If you disable hardware acceleration (or change any flash setting in general) it affects all flash players/plugins.

I think Chrome's flash plugin is still a little buggy. You could try either updating the flash player plugin (if possible) or try reinstalling chrome and/or its flash plugin.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 10:57
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Quote: "I don't think that would be the issue, since it works fine in FF. If you disable hardware acceleration (or change any flash setting in general) it affects all flash players/plugins."


Chrome uses its own integrated flash plugin, which is separate from the system one. I recently had problems with it, and disabling it was the only thing that worked (since I couldn't figure out how to change the settings without opening a flash applet, and doing that would cause an instant lock-up). I eventually opted to just reinstall Windows, which I'm glad I did since it really improved system performance anyway.
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 11:37
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When I disable hardware acceleration in Chrome's flash plugin, the setting carried over into FF as well, I tested it back n' forth just now. But it's worth a shot anyway.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 13:31
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I did recently update the video card driver, so that could be the problem. Looked into the NVidia control panel, and for some reason SLI was enabled, even though I only have one card.
Disabled it, restarted, tried again. Video plays fine now.
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