hd videos crashing!

[Big fish63]

when i want to watch a hd movie someone has posted a lot of the time it crashes my laptop and sends it into into a frenzy, which basically results in me shutting it down!

a good example is on the howard hall website. if i click to watch one of the videos and then try and maximize it to full screen the music seems to play but i will see a blank screen or it will crash!! sometimes its fine though? i watch hd movies ive downloaded all of the time with no problems??

just wondering if anyone else experiences the same problem?

 

[Scubamedicjoe]

to answer your question no , i would up date your sound card and video card drivers see if that helps

 

[robint]

yeah, I don't ever watch or edit HD videos on a laptop. They just can't handle the files.

 

[Big fish63]

my laptop is fairly new (Christmas) and its a new dell model as far as i know. from researching on the internet i have found its probably to do with my browser firefox and adobe not working well together...

 

[WetBoy101]

Modern computers with the latest operating systems (windows 7 etc) should have no issues with HD videos!!

 

[ronscuba]

Modern computers with the latest operating systems (windows 7 etc) should have no issues with HD videos!!

should

 

[Big fish63]

i doubt its my laptop theres quite a bit about this subject on the net. i download 1080p movies never had a glitch. surprised no one else has had any problems. what web browsers are people using?

 

[ronscuba]

I have no problems viewing HD videos on the various sites like vimeo, youtube, exposure room, etc. on any of the computers I use. Work, home, wife's. Use firefox and internet explorer and different Widows OS.

I believe Howard Hall has vimeo links on his site. Do you have problems with all vimeo videos ? What about Internet Explorer ?

 

[a22shady]

Try playing them in IE. If that still has the issue update your video card if your driver are up to date. Also make sure you have the newest version of adobe flash player. Then download the new codecs and you should be good. The K-lite codec pack contains all the newest codecs to be able to play virtually any file type.

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[Big fish63]

i installed safari to try a different browser and it works with no problems... but safari is so slow compared to firefox so i will keep that installed for general browsing.

The problem was adobe flash player crashing firefox and internet explorer. i cant believe with all the resources they have this problem occurs.