Page 1 of 1
Screen flickers badly when waching flash video.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:28 am
by garnet
My configuration is in my signature. In windows when I try to watch flash video the screen flickers (freezes) badly. This is mainly in the first 1 or so minutes of the playback. This is even more so if the connection to the video isnt great - it flickers all the time. It seems as if it flickers/freezes every time it buffers the stream in the background. It does this in all browsers.
I am using opera 12 with latest version of flash and latest video drivers from lenovo.
Any suggestions?
Re: Screen flickers badly when waching flash video.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:38 am
by RealBlackStuff
There are 2 Flash file formats, .FLV and .F4V
Maybe you need to install different/additional codecs.
Make sure to get the correct 32- or 64-bit files.
Try a different media player program, such as VLC.
And here are some tips:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/29520 ... lash-video
Re: Screen flickers badly when waching flash video.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:53 am
by garnet
RealBlackStuff wrote:There are 2 Flash file formats, .FLV and .F4V
Maybe you need to install different/additional codecs.
Make sure to get the correct 32- or 64-bit files.
Try a different media player program, such as VLC.
And here are some tips:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/29520 ... lash-video
This problem is only in browser based flash streams - i.e. BBC iplayer, etc.
I dont know anything about the codecs - and most likely they are proprietary ones anyway.
Re: Screen flickers badly when waching flash video.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:00 am
by RealBlackStuff
BBC iPlayer does not play (
officially ahem...) outside of the UK.
I suggest you install these (free) CCCP codecs:
http://combined-community-codec-pack.en.softonic.com/