Here’s another little fix that I performed on one of my computers that I thought I would share. When I play videos on sites like Youtube, while in full screen mode, the video itself would often freeze after playing for a minute or two. The audio would continue to play correctly and if I would escape from full screen mode back to a normal video playing in the webpage, the video would begin to play correctly again.
It seems that using hardware video acceleration was the culprit. Once I disabled it, everything worked fine. This is easy to do. Just right mouse click on the video that is playing. Then a window should open that says Adobe Flash Player Settings. Select settings and then uncheck the box that says enable hardware settings. If you don’t have that option, you may need to click on the icon at the bottom right of that window. It looks like a monitor with a paintbrush. And that’s it. Your videos should now play in full screen mode without the video freezing.
Seeing how I’m now running Word Press, it only makes sense that I would tell you about Word Press TV. If you are running Word Press, or are just thinking about using it, you owe it to yourself to give this site a look.
Even though it’s only been up for maybe 2 months, there’s a lot of great content. There’s plenty of How-To videos, for beginners to advanced users. There’s videos about administration, set-up, widgets, publishing, media, plugins, themes, custom design, and more. There is also a section of videos from Word Camp.
I wanted to write about Word Press TV when it first went live, but I haven’t actully spent any amount of time on it, untill recently. Most of them are using vimeo to host their videos, so the quality is execlent. Theses aren’t some junky, pixalated Youtube videos. They are high quality and when I viewed them with HD turned on, the screen captures of in the how-to videos was perfect and crisp and easy to read the all the text in the videos. Even when not in full screen or HD you can read them easily. If only everyone made instructional videos at this quality. Check out the example below.
Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin: settings and configuration
Then a window should open that says Adobe Flash Player Settings. Select settings and then uncheck the box that says enable hardware settings. If you don’t have that option, you may need to click on the icon at the bottom right of that window. It looks like a monitor with a paintbrush. And that’s it. Your videos should now play in full screen mode without the video freezing.
