Upgraded from Vista Home Premium 64 to Window 7 Home Premium 64, and the first problem I've noticed is streamed video. I was actually watching a video, and afterwards I went to another video and that's when it wouldn't work anymore. The website's video wouldn't work, but I thought it was the website that was linked to it, then I check other videos from other sources like youtube to find out they aren't working either. When I start a video it loads infinitely until I have to close the program. The same problem goes for both my Firefox and my IE, so I figured it had to have something to do with an upgrade.

if ur talkin bout youtube only or metacafe linked with youtube, the problem is not with windows 7 but with youtube!!youtube is facing a serious problem in theyr server since google took over it,just google it and see hundreds of thousands ppl complainting, as i tweaked my connection it s still somewhat OK,but not as desired....youtube is gone =/ till they decide to fix theyr issues,dunno if thats Ddos or theyr link is not handling the demand...regards,RR

Others aren't working either, like megavideo. Although I don't know if that's youtube related or not since I don't understand what metacafe is or how it works.

Hi Oceanus,try www.metacafe.com and ull what im talking about,its a web site just like youtube but some of the videos are affiliated with youtube those are slow cuz they come from youtube source,now the metacafe's video they fast, now bout youtube just google the exact phrase: why is youtube so f ucking slowthen get the first option after searching,u'll see tons of posts complainting bout its performance...my nick there is HardenReg and check my advices to how toreduce the impact of UT failure LOLKind regards,RR

Unfortunately, this doesn't explain why megavideo or any video isn't streaming at all so suddenly so soon after upgrade. Metacafe is also not loading video streams at all, either.

ok, so its prolly a flash player issue,have u tried visiting get.adobe.com/flashplayer and download the latest version of the player? maybe urs is currupted and u might have to uninstall it then visit the web site and reinstall it..see if it works for yaRegards,RR

Sounds Flash related, check the firewall and uninstall / reinstall flash.

Randomly the issue has disappeared after I have returned from town. Perhaps there WAS something going on with video earlier today?

Almost 24 hours now, and the problem has returned. I can check out a video, but the problem consistently does the following: first I can't use the move forward feature in the video where it tries to buffer, because it begins buffering, then doesn't, and begins the never-ending loading. Restarting Firefox and trying the video again buffers it at 00:00, then never finishes. Every time I try to watch the video after that the buffer % varies or doesn't even come up, and it just tries to load infinitely preventing any use of the browser except for the Close button.

perhaps u should try using IE8,it might be a firefox issue..give it a try and post it back here the results!Regards,RRPS:i would advise u to reinstall flashplayr before trying anything ,after removing flash player go to c:\windows\system32\Macromed and delete the folder just to make sure everything is clean before a new installation

Like I mentioned in my original post, IE8 has the same problem. Also, in regards to your PS, I don't have a Macromed folder. Now for a bit more information: For detail clarification, when I click on play (or a video autostarts), it begins to buffer, it's always during buffer that the whole screen says it's loading and doesn't respond anymore. Sometimes when the problem begins, I'm watching a video, and I skip ahead, which causes it to buffer again, and then the screen again becomes unresponsive. I hope this helps somebody help me figure out what's wrong. I wonder if Windows 7 isn't compatible with Flash player, I mean Adobe Flash's website doesn't say it's compatible, maybe it hasn't gotten their yet? This problem is very stupid as it's not consistent or predictable, based on a recent study of mine. Anytime it begins to act up I restart the computer as sort of a quick fix. Somehow, this can work. The buffering problem goes away, but not for good. Nothing has changed, so I know that eventually it'll show up again, and every time I'll have to restart the computer to "try again".

I have the same problem, only mine began about 9 months ago while I was still on Vista Home Premium. I tried setting everything back to default settings, but that didn't fix the problem. I'm now on Windows 7 and there's no improvement. I tried Firefox then switched back to IE. I'm all up to date on the latest everything.It behaves like there's a buffer problem. Used to be, the red buffer line would travel well ahead of the slider, but no more. Now it just "chunks" if you know what I mean. It goes ahead of the slider then stops and the playback stops when the slider hits the end of the "chunk". I changed the Adobe setting to allow unlimited space and that makes no difference at all. Whatever it buffers the first time, that's what I get to play, usually 10-60 seconds. Then it pauses to buffer another few seconds. Sometimes it goes into infinite load mode after the 1st buffer, sometimes after 10 buffers, but I never get all the way through. When it's a UTube embed (I'm now in beyond me territory so forgive me if I'm using the wrong phraseology) and it goes into infinite load, I can frequently double-click which goes directly to UTube and it will pick up where it left off through the next chunk of buffer at which point it goes infinite load on me again. I "x" out of UTube, back to my original, slide the slider to the time point UTube left off and I can sometimes get it going again untill the next load. Keep doing this back and forth garbage ... but at some point, even that finagling will stop working. I have more than enough memory and more than enough disk for virtual memory and have given Adobe carte blanche. I used to stream all the time, now I can't. I hoped Windows 7 would fix whatever I broke on Vista, but no such luck. Sorta takes the fun out of it all.

well so guess its not a windows 7 issue and i can be addressed to adobe's,i also noticed some weird behaviour with adobe flash player however nothing so annoying ,lets say if the bar charges/download the video half way ahead of where im watching sometimes when i click a bit ahead to advance the video due to some boring videos at the beginning it kind of bugs and keep playing or it bugs so i have to restart the video but nothing so annoying that i cant live with!!i noticed after adobes flash player 9 version buffering became a bit slower however as i said in many topics ,tweaking registry or via command line my networkingworked the way i desired,but UT has a big issue concerning link consumption!!google it and ull see...regards,RR

It's been a few days while not really changing or affecting anything, and now it hasn't happen again. I guess we'll return to this topic when somebody figures something out again.

I moved and set up a new internet connection, and it's shockwave flash has been crashing while buffering again. It's getting to be on average about 1 video watched per reboot before every streaming video after that crashes.

http://www.bitconsultants.net/2009/fix-windows-7-flash-crashing-remote-desktop-issue/

I found this solution--Optimizing Your Network Adapter for High Audio/Video Traffic--For many deployments, you can use the default settings on your network adapter; however, in the following situations, you should optimize for audio/video traffic flow by increasing receive and transmit buffers settings to three times their default value on your network adapters http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb663784(office.12).aspx In combination with increasing cache, uninstall/reinstall flash, right clicking problem video for setting on adobe and unchecking accelerate hardware. I don't which one solved the problem.

I had this same problem. My solution was I went into Device Manager. (Right Click on Computer>Properties>Device Manager). Find your AUDIO driver. Right click on it and uninstall. It will give u a check box if you want to delete the driver. Check the box. Proced to uninstal the driver. Once uninstalled, right click on your pc name. Then click scan for hardware changes. It should find your audio driver and install. It only works if you check the box to delete your driver when you unistall it. Let me know if this fixes your problem cuz it worked for me!