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Alternatives to Adobe Flash?

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Adobe Flash player sucks the life out of my computer. OK, well to be honest their entire suite of products does it. If I click on a forum thread that has a YouTube video, as soon as that video preview appears in my displayable area, my computer locks up for several (and up to 30-45) seconds.

Fed up, I uninstalled everything Adobe except the PDF reader. I went into my Control Panel and set Windows Media Player as my default player.

After doing so (and even without a computer restart), my computer is humming along nicely.

So, if I now try to watch a YouTube video, it's telling me I need to Install Adobe Flash Player. I don't want to... Can I change something so videos will play but using a different player?
 
Will all that newfangled stuff and new versions of software work on an old Windows XP machine with limited (500M) memory?
 
Actually, I just tested it. FireFox 7 was not a good recommendation since they only support the Ogg Vorbis encoding with HTML5 Video.

HTML5 Video is in an encoding format chaos/war. HTML5 videos can be encoded in several formats H.264(Apple owns the license), Ogg Vorbis (open source), or WebM(Google).

IE,Safari and Flash support H.264
Google Chrome supports WebM
FireFox supports Ogg

You can run the Flash plugin in all the browsers and then get universal H.264 support.

You can get the WebM plugin for IE.

It's a total mess. It's much easier to just run Flash but if you are adamant about not running it there are alternatives - they just aren't simple.
 
Thanks PB.

I understood.... the last sentence. The easiest and probably best thing for me is to just not play videos.
 
bczoom said:
Thanks PB.

I understood.... the last sentence. The easiest and probably best thing for me is to just not play videos.
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Have you checked to see if you have an extra slot for another 512MB of memory? Its really simple to add ( if I can do it it must be ) and the memory sticks are really reasonable from tiger direct. Before I bought this new computer I only had one 256MB memory in my old one and couldn't play you tube videos I replaced it ( I also had an extra slot ) with two 512MB sticks for 48 bucks and it made all the difference in the world. Just a thought but I dont know much about computer systems. :unsure:
 
OK, I believe I found it and got things working again.

It's a FIREFOX issue on how it handles stuff for playing videos and such.

A google search for plugin-container.exe will give you details. Basically, it's running things outside of FireFox so if they crash, it doesn't crash FF as well. Good idea sort of but where it's running them (the process called plugin-container.exe) is such a hog it brings your computer to a very sluggish state. If you use stand-by instead of turning off regularly, it compounds the issue.

Here's how to fix.
In your Firefox address bar, type about:config (and hit enter)
In filter, type dom.ipc (and hit enter)

For the 4 values listed as true, set to false by clicking (double?) on them.
 
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