Until recently I had no problems watching You Tube, I-Player etc,on my Compaq PC, but recently, after a few minutes, the picture freezes and some seconds later the sound goes. If I then move the cursor over the picture area everything starts working again. After a few more minutes it will do the same thing again. Sometimes the gap between pauses is a minute or two and at others it can be almost immediatly after it starts playing again. I don't think its buffering.

Any suggestions anyone?

Chris

Could be pc or wireless related.

Is anything else running slowly?

Not got an Nvidea graphics card by any chance? A recent driver update has caused problems for a couple of people I know.

Chris

Thanks for the replies. Everything else on the pc appears to be working as it always has. I have an Nvidea GT220 card. I updated the driver after Idid my original post but nothing has changed with regard to the freezing. Head scratching will continue I think!

Chris

HD problem ?

With my AMD motherboard, the most recent set of ATI / Microsoft drivers have horrendous problems with HD audio - if the system goes to sleep, then, on wake, the system de-recognises the default AMD HD audio driver and adopts the standard audio driver, which is OK if you've retained an output lead from the old audio jack plugs on the PC, but if you've adopted HD audio distribution using HDMI lead and disconnected the standard jack plug leads. then you won't get any audio until you remove the HD lead , restart the system and then re-connect the HD lead i.e. You force the system to re-recognise the AMD HD device on the motherboard and re-install the driver. AMD/ATI have issued a driver update containing a fix, but it isn't completely effective.

Maybe your problem is a variant of that ?

I've had similar problems to what hou describe when using touch screens and touch oads with You Tube - inadvertently lightly brushing the screen/pad with finger or clothing will stop video play immediately and then when you deliberately do a finger action the thing won't respond at all until all conditions are satisfied - i.e. The focus of MS windows is on the video object and you've touch clicked in the accetble way - I wonder if this is a parameter oassing problem between Adobe Flash Player and MS Windows.

Nick

Thanks for the replies. Everything else on the pc appears to be working as it always has. I have an Nvidea GT220 card. I updated the driver after Idid my original post but nothing has changed with regard to the freezing. Head scratching will continue I think!

Chris

The update that caused the problem was several months ago, maybe even a year back, so try going back to a much earlier driver version.

Windows 7 has tried to sneak it through as an automated update twice on my PC lately.

Chris