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Videos only load a few minutes at a time. Once the buffer is depleted, the video player ends.

blueFern
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I recently updated my graphics and audio drivers; they had been more than two years out-of-date. I made no other significant changes to my system, as far as I'm aware. Afterwards, embedded videos failed to load more than a few minutes of buffer at a time. Once the end of that buffer is reached, the video player simply ends the video as though it had reached the end. After the error started, I checked my plug-ins, and only two are out-of-date; Unity Player and Adobe Acrobat. I'm not able to update either of them.

I recently updated my graphics and audio drivers; they had been more than two years out-of-date. I made no other significant changes to my system, as far as I'm aware. Afterwards, embedded videos failed to load more than a few minutes of buffer at a time. Once the end of that buffer is reached, the video player simply ends the video as though it had reached the end. After the error started, I checked my plug-ins, and only two are out-of-date; Unity Player and Adobe Acrobat. I'm not able to update either of them.

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Brandon Vita
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Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:

On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:

(See this Adobe blog post for technical details about Flash protected mode.)

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