Video ends halfway through

[ray4389]

Not too far into videos from the likes of Youtube and Metacafe, it appears to have finished. I'm like WTF? It's not just pausing, but it actually has the banner to watch related videos. What can I do?

[ray4389]

any help?

[ray4389]

This is getting on my fucking nerves that I can't even watch a fucking video...

[videomasterz]

what browser are you using??? is it ONLY visiting internet websites??

or also when viewing divx movies or dvd movies??

[ray4389]

I have uninstalled flash--reinstalled--redownloaded--repeated--deleted cache...



WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!















I'm pissed...

[videomasterz]

ok so its in the browser... you forgot to answer my question..

which browser are you using????

[ray4389]

ok so its in the browser... you forgot to answer my question..

which browser are you using????
Only flash it seems and it happens in IE, Flock, Firefox, etc. It doesn't matter....

[videomasterz]

can you please download and try opera? i beleive they use a different flash plugin...

[ray4389]

Is there a program I can run that tests to see if my hardware is currupting shit?

I don't want something to only test ram, but cpu, hd, etc...

[ray4389]

Not to be funny, but the site pornotube.com which uses flash video is fine, but metacafe and youtube don't work...

[videomasterz]

you can try pc wizard and do some benchmarks?

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

for cpu you can try orthos

http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm

[videomasterz]

you know what first try opera

they may have a better plugin that what you are using... something must be corrupted somewhere... i actually havnt expereinced this problem..

[ray4389]

Yea I can't get Opera to download properly or something....

[videomasterz]

just to be clear..

if a video says 119 seconds..

it will stop right in the middle and wont resume at all???

[videomasterz]

meta cafe is using adobe flash

well you need to do these procedures to uninstall:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157

THEN:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
click "Get the latest version"

then install...

[ray4389]

meta cafe is using adobe flash

well you need to do these procedures to uninstall:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157

THEN:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
click "Get the latest version"

then install...
yep that's what I did...

it did start working again, but it started doing it again today....

[ray4389]

just to be clear..

if a video says 119 seconds..

it will stop right in the middle and wont resume at all???
Ehh it will pick a random point--usually with the first half and stop and start back to the beginign or will freeze.

[ray4389]

Ok, I got it working again, and I know how to, but I don't know why....

I schedule an "error fix" of my hardrive which is set to automatically recover bad sectors and fix them, and I hit my reset button on the 30% done mark ont eh 4th out of 5 steps. It has been working every time as I did the same thing last time. WTF?

[ray4389]

Correction--it worked for one video...and downloads seem currupt--what to do?

[ray4389]

I'm doing a memtest now...

It seems to be fine, so now how do I do a HD test and/or a CPU test?

[videomasterz]

you can use the pcwizard to do some benchmarks on your harddrive.... you can also try to defragment your computer.. if you cant defrag some files on your harddrive maybe those sectors are getting screwed up... maybe your harddrive is slowly going out.. and cant keep up with the data the internet is sending it?

there could be alot of problems causing your video to stop in the middle of viewing it.. hardrive could be one.. memory could be one... or even the wrong setup of drviers or ecoders can be one as well....

[ray4389]

you can use the pcwizard to do some benchmarks on your harddrive.... you can also try to defragment your computer.. if you cant defrag some files on your harddrive maybe those sectors are getting screwed up... maybe your harddrive is slowly going out.. and cant keep up with the data the internet is sending it?

there could be alot of problems causing your video to stop in the middle of viewing it.. hardrive could be one.. memory could be one... or even the wrong setup of drviers or ecoders can be one as well....
Well the harddrive is like 3 weeks old...

The memory tested fine...

Bad windows install?

[ray4389]

Well the harddrive is like 3 weeks old...

The memory tested fine...

Bad windows install?

After a repair installation of Windows, video still not right...yet live stream of music has never messed up?

[ray4389]

The western digital data lifeguard tools crap didn't find any errors. What the fuck?

[ray4389]

Windows was booting--that's why I finally ran the Lifeguard tools and now I will install windows again. I ran fixmbr and that didn't help--still restarts on the boot up of windows....

[ray4389]

I have now purchased a new motherboard. It's an Asus sli delux An832 I think?



And a new case :-D Some thermalintake

Anyways I'm doing a repair install. We'll see what happens soon...

[ray4389]

ok--it was the hard drive....

[note235]

how did you find out?

[videomasterz]

so it was the harddrive dieing??? i guess the harddrive couldnt download data enough from the internet to be played on the computer... that is what im thinking???

[ray4389]

After buying a new mobo, testing the crap outa ram, etc. it was obvious...

Also I am running a new installation on the other HD, and it's fine. I am RMAing the other HD and probably buying a new one for now--maybe not. I can deff wait.