Comments on: Firefox: No Sound in Videos, Videos Stop Playing After A Few Seconds

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:23:40 +0000

Glad I found your blog entry. This happened to me too, at least once.

But this time, it’s happened in Firefox 3.5.3 with the ‘pushed’ Flash plugin upgrade, version 10.0.32.18. I run a fully updated WinXP SP3. I beat the problem by disabling and re-enabling the Flash plugin under Tools – Add-Ons – Plugins. Hope it doesn’t reoccur. At first I thought it might have something to do with the new Bluetooth wireless sound setup I just installed, but no. I knew it was specific to Fx when I noticed audio still playing everywhere else on the PC, including IE like you suggest. Thanks, and hope this entry helps someone else too.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:49:12 +0000

After trying all this…turns out SOMEHOW the system volume for firefox was turned off.

Someone posted a picture:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7595/volumegz6.jpg

It’s under control panel, hardware & sounds. HTH someone else!

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:28:07 +0000

Video and sound still stops after a few seconds with Flash 10.0 r22 on centos FF3.0.7. Seems to happen after coming out of suspend. Thanks for the tip on disabling and enabling the Flash plugin. At least I don’t have to restart FF now. I’ve disabled Real Player too. Hopefully that’ll help.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:56:26 +0000

User account controls can cause a lot of problems with restricting access between firefox and flash player

By: alejobd

alejobd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:18:56 +0000

@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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:44:49 +0000

I uninstalled Realplayer and now it works fine…. thank you…. screw realplayer

By: John L

John L — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:30:49 +0000

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.

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:59:20 +0000

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

By: szilsi

szilsi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:39:23 +0000

Disable and enable the newer plugin, and it’s will be work great ( for me)

By: Kyle Joseph

Kyle Joseph — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:40:53 +0000

Thank you I found this very usefull..