There are some might clever folks about here...

[BillWiskins]

...so I'm hoping that one or two of you can help a blundering moron such as myself. Look at me. I can't even spell 'mighty' rightly.

It's nothing to get up about, really - just a niggling little thing that I can't seem to find a solution for.

It is YouTube. The popular internet video website. You should try it sometime - they have videos there. But the thing is, and this is what the thing is: any video I watch there seems to have its audio track delayed by a half a second or so. This is incredibly frustrating - more so because it didn't used to happen. I'm using an almost new laptop of moderate to poor specification, but this time last week everything was synced beautifully.

I have tried checking (and un-checking) the 'enable hardware acceleration' box in the Flash options. I use Chrome, which automatically keeps my version of Flash fresh. I am at a loss.

Any theories, solutions, ideas, musings, insane ramblings of the sleep deprived, etc. are greatly welcomed.

With many of the thanks,

Bill.

Edited August 6, 2012 by BillWiskins
Incompetence

[Serratus]

My first hypothesis would bee to clear cookies. If that does nothing try killing rundll32 process. Works for me anyway...

[KevinTMC]

I'd recommend moving your computer approximately 170m in the general direction of your nearest Google data center.

[flaillomanz]

Here's some actual, serious advice.

I had this problem myself not two weeks ago, and it was fixed for me by changing the Power settings. Apparently, due to laptops having an onboard power supply as well as the ability to be directly connected, there are two different modes for being plugged in and not. Occasionally, with some programs, these settings will change a little. Fiddle around with the "plugged in" options first, to test if this fixes it, then apply them to the battery power settings. Uh, if that wasn't too hard to follow, of course.

[BillWiskins]

Cleared cookies, no dice. Thanks for the advice folks, moving on to the next thing...

...none of which seems to have worked. Thanks for the help, though.

Edited August 7, 2012 by BillWiskins

[Johno]

Actually I'd like it if people could suggest something - for me, YouTube crashes the window, reliably, every time an advertisement plays. Browser is Explorer 8, flash player is updated. The only way to resurrect it is to close the browser down entirely and restart.

Before anyone asks, NO. Not switching to Chrome or Firefox. I want Explorer fixed. Weird, I know, but I quite like it.

[flaillomanz]

Actually I'd like it if people could suggest something - for me, YouTube crashes the window, reliably, every time an advertisement plays. Browser is Explorer 8, flash player is updated. The only way to resurrect it is to close the browser down entirely and restart.

Before anyone asks, NO. Not switching to Chrome or Firefox. I want Explorer fixed. Weird, I know, but I quite like it.

I'll cautiously ask... have you tried Adblock Plus? (it DOES work in IE). Although some people have issues with it not always working (which hasn't happened to me, at least) it's generally good at skipping ads entirely. It doesn't even allow them to load on youtube - it's straight to the video.

Edited August 7, 2012 by flaillomanz
Herpity derp, I meant IE not firefox!

[KevinTMC]

Before anyone asks, NO. Not switching to Chrome or Firefox. I want Explorer fixed. Weird, I know, but I quite like it.

Hey, nothing wrong with liking what you like. And I believe that many of the popular plugins that help narrow some of the more extreme privacy breaches work on most any browser now, so using IE needn't constitute an engraved invitation to malware/pesky-ware/adware.

I would suggest having a backup browser installed for testing purposes at least though. I've got IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari all installed on my PC. I have my Firefox browser stuffed with plugins and in the tightest usable lockdown mode I can devise; when it crashes or otherwise barfs on a webpage or page element, I start trying some of the others. Final resort is a plugin-less IE.

[Serratus]

Well, if I was to be honest I'd say that using IE is the source of 50% of Your problems, You stubborn boy You

Edit:

Me grandpa uses IE too. He encountered that same problem, and found a "workaround" of sorts... He formats the whole system and reinstalls it every month. I'm not even kidding. Try it, I'm sure it will help. If not, then You at least know it's equipment-related, or bandwidth issue...

Edited August 7, 2012 by Serratus

[bandit4910]

Well, I had this problem to. (This is an actual answer.) If you have vista/7, press the windows one of the windows buttons, type flash in the search box, click the flash player program, go to the storage tab if not already there and press delete all. It appears that flash has a separate cache that browser don't clear so if the cache gets full this happens.

[BillWiskins]

Well, I had this problem to. (This is an actual answer.) If you have vista/7, press the windows one of the windows buttons, type flash in the search box, click the flash player program, go to the storage tab if not already there and press delete all. It appears that flash has a separate cache that browser don't clear so if the cache gets full this happens.

Hi there. Assuming that was aimed at my original issue, and not at Johno's - first thanks for the tip. However I have been unable to locate the Flash player - a search in the search box as described reveals nothing, and I haven't been able to locate it anywhere else. I'm using Windows 7.