Firefox: No Sound in Videos, Videos Stop Playing After A Few Seconds
A significant issue has arisen with Flashplayer (video player for Youtube.com, Funnyordie.com and many others) in Firefox… many videos that I have tried playing at home and at work recently have not worked. The whole video loads and I can move the cursor to any point in the video, but the video has no sound and quits playing after only a few seconds. After doing some research online, I have discovered that many other users have also had problems with Flashplayer in Firefox and having their videos mess up, so I will share some troubleshooting tips I have come across and what has worked for me:
If your video stops after after a few seconds and you have no sound with your Flashplayer video try the following troubleshooting tips:
-Close and reopen Firefox. For many people this temporarily solves the issue of videos with no sound.
-Simply play the video in Internet Explorer. I hate to have to suggest this tip, since I am an ENORMOUS firefox fan, but it is the solution that I have used as most of the others haven’t worked for me (though they have for some people).
-Reinstall an older version of Flashplayer. Running 9.0.47.0 now and it seems to be ok.
I got the version 9.0.47.0 at the “Archived Flash Players available for
testing purposes” page:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sl…
Extracted the .47 version and (after uninstalling all flash) ran the windows
installer. Seems to work fine in Firefox now.
I’ve changed settings to keep Flash from updating unless I okay it Change your
flash settings by means of the following page:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/s…
-Uninstall Realplayer. Apparently having both RealPlayer and FlashPlayer both installed has caused conflicts for some people.
- Try to clear your private data. Apparently, broken cookies & files in your temporary internet folder can screw up the playing of lots of videos. Click on Tools then on Clear Private Data and make sure all the boxes are checked. Finally hit Clear Private Data.
If anyone else has any tips or a great solution to the problem of there being no sound in videos on Firefox and the videos stopping after several seconds for no reason, please add your ideas to the comments!
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July 25th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
thank you so “verily mulch” … after using the adobe special uninstaller (ref’d above), i put in 9.0.45 since i had it handy. oh, running vista and used actual administrator account (not my added admin account).
music to my ears now ….
July 31st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Thank you I found this very usefull..
September 5th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Disable and enable the newer plugin, and it’s will be work great ( for me)
September 21st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Thank you very much. I uninstalled the adobe flash player and then installed the 9.0.47.0 (file name “flashplayer4r47_win.exe”) for Firefox and “flashplayer4r47_winax.exe” for IE (IE did not work with only the first installed). But now it works perfectly. Thanks.
PS: This is the link for the adboe uninstaller that I used.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
September 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
VLC is another problem with Firefox and can be found it a lot of forums. If you cannot play any videos in Firefox and you have VLC then get rid of it and try Gom Player which does the same thing without any conflicts.
October 5th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I uninstalled Realplayer and now it works fine…. thank you…. screw realplayer
November 12th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
@szilsi
The disable-then-enable the Flash plugin (then reload de videos) worked for me. Good trick!. Before this, I had to use IEtab to view the videos with the IE engine (and sometimes, even that didn’t work, and I had to open a real IE-based brower -IE, Avant, Maxthon…)
Firefox and Flash developers should tackle this issue, because is very annoying.