Have you seen the Firefox sessions autosave fix? Could be the issue.
----- Fix for Flash video stuttering in Firefox Have you notice, that sometimes Flash-based videos stutter when you view them in Firefox, but work fine in other browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari? This turns out to be a problem of appears to be a problem of Firefox's session restore feature, that affects both Windows and Mac versions. So what's the solution? Well, you can either turn off the session restore feature altogether. Or simply lengthen the period of time between snapshots. To do this, type about:config into Firefox's address bar, then in filter box enter browser.sessionstore.interval. The default value’s 10000, which’s the number of milliseconds between snapshots. Setting the number to 120000 lengthens the period to two minutes, a more reasonable but still useful period. Of course, you can set it to whatever you want, as long as you keep in mind that you're dealing with milliseconds. On Sep 29, 4:37 pm, gmccomb <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently I've had this bug for a while but only recently noticed it. > It's *accentuated* with SWFObject (I'm using 2.2), but it also happens > with static OBJECT encoding. Here it is: > > I have an FLV player that when run in Firefox the video occasionally > "lags" or freezes. The audio plays, and the scrubber continues to > move. The free lasts between 0.25 to 1.5 seconds. The freeze occurs > within the first 2-6 seconds of the video. > > Here's where it gets screwy: > > 1. It only tends to happen on first load of the browser after a > complete clearing of the cache and restarting the browser. > > 2. It rarely, if ever, happens if I wait a mininum of five seconds > before commencing play. > > 3. It rarely, if ever, happens if I run ANY Flash application first, > then run my SWF with any video. > > 4. The temporary freezing is more common when playing local content. > > 5. The freezing tends to be worse (longer, occurs more often, like 4 > out of 5 loads) with SWFObject than with OBJECT embedding. > > It may also occur in other browsers that use the Flash plugin, but > it's worse in Firefox. There seems to be no difference between FF > 3.0.x and 3.5.x. It does not appear to happen on IE. > > I've tested using the latest Flash (10,0,32,18), on an XP and Vista > machine. I've read some people have encoutered this problem and have > handled it with arcane measures, such as disabling Java, downgrading > to 9r47 or some crazy old thing (can't run H.264 with that). > > I've determined it's not specific to any video or player. I've tried > numerous videos (FLV1 and FLV4), including some I didn't encode > myself, and with Adobe Encoder using standard settings. In all cases > bitrate is between 400 to 700bps for video. It also happens in at > least Flowplayer, so it doesn't look like it's just my player. > > What's stumping me the most is why the freezing doesn't occur as noted > in #2 and #3 above. > > Any ideas?? > > Gordon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
