All videos seem to be cut off

dennisw · Post by **dennisw** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:43 pm

Paul,

Well at least I'm not losing my mind. I purged the cache and this didn't help, either.

I'm gonna go back and try again with Firefox.

Thanks,
Dennis

paul heller · Post by **paul heller** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:53 pm

Dennis, I do not have firefox to check. But I did a second test with the same results. Safari stops at 15:20, Camino plays all the way through. Strange.

If you can't get Firefox to work, give Camino a try.

Paul

dennisw · Post by **dennisw** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:03 am

Paul,

Just ran it again, this time on Firefox and it stopped at exactly the same spot: 15:20. This again makes me wonder what's going on "behind the scenes".

I don't have Camino, but I guess I can give it a go, but it seems like a long way to go since it would seem something is going far enough awry that the two most prevalent Mac browsers can't run the videos.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:15 am

Dennis,
I have an iMac running 10.5.2 and Safari 3.1. Mine also stopped at the 15:20 mark, but I was able to get it going again by just dragging the indicator past the stopping point and then back to where it stopped. It then continued on. I did not empty the cache, but if you want to try that, the command is on the Safari menu, or just press cmd-option-E.

Bruce

dennisw · Post by **dennisw** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:20 am

Bruce wrote:Dennis,
I have an iMac running 10.5.2 and Safari 3.1. Mine also stopped at the 15:20 mark, but I was able to get it going again by just dragging the indicator past the stopping point and then back to where it stopped. It then continued on. I did not empty the cache, but if you want to try that, the command is on the Safari menu, or just press cmd-option-E.

Bruce

Bruce. Interesting. I tried that "drag" concept one of the first times and it didn't work.

I've emptied the cache already, so that's not it. I'm running it right now in Camino to see what happens.

Seems a lot of work - not that it won't be worth it - but something odd is going on here when it takes this much effort to just get the videos to play.

dennisw · Post by **dennisw** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:25 am

OK folks - Camino ALSO stops at 15:20, so I GIVE UP.

Dennis

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:42 am

Did you install the recent Flash update (version 9.0 r124)? I had never seen this problem until now, and I did recently update Flash. Maybe there's a bug in the update. It might be worth checking out the Macromedia web site and some of the Mac forums.

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:43 am

I did a Goggle search and only found similar symptoms when using Skype while watching video and a few people complaining about hangs at the same time while watching video but no solutions were provided.

paul heller · Post by **paul heller** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:47 am

dennisw wrote:OK folks - Camino ALSO stops at 15:20, so I GIVE UP.
Dennis

Wow. Me too. I guess I'm lucky (so far).

Darn computers.

Paul

BigSky · Post by **BigSky** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:59 am

I guess we could ask SS to do everything in 15 minute segments. Insert "an intermission for a little while".