Just a few days ago, maybe even from last week, I began to have issues with YouTube and streaming videos on my browser; I use Chrome. The issue is that whenever I play the video, the audio plays correctly, but the video lags frames, skips frames, and then when I pause it, the video continues to play the lagging frames until it catches up to the point of time in which I paused the video. I have no idea what the issue could be. I'm thinking it has something to do with Flash, and I was going to updated it, but I'm not sure, since I'm a little bad with technology. . . . help?
Could be a number of things, firstly, might be the video, some just aren't uploaded correctly, secondly it might be your computer just needed a reboot. Thirdly your computer might need a bit of a clean, the processes are causing it to lag and things like video streaming suffer from it.
It sounds like an issue with your internet to me. Update Flash of course, but if you could do a Speedtest that may help diagnose the issue. Also, you could temporarily enable the HTML5 beta to see if it's a problem with Flash or your computer. Do you have problems with any other streaming (audio or video)? Does your internet connection often act up? The thing about streaming video over the internet, it's not the same as webpages. Webpages use what's called TCP, which is guaranteed delivery--if something isn't received, it's retransmitted. This takes longer, but for a webpage, it works well. For video or audio, we use what's called UDP, which just sends everything at you at once. If a packet is dropped or there is any problem, it just ignores it and keeps sending. If the problem is pronounced enough, we'll see it as jerky video, dropped frames, etc.
All the videos seem to be fine, but I'm going to be a little slow here and . . . well, erm. By reboot, you do mean restart, right? If so, I have already tried that, and it doesn't seem to have done anything. As for cleaning my computer, I wouldn't even know where to begin on that. • n • I updated Flash just a few minutes ago, and for a little while, it seemed to have solve the issue, with YouTube, I think, anyway. I still have the issues with watching videos outside YouTube. . . . It seems that I'm pretty bad off. Before this point, my internet had never acted particularly strange, but I do recall one night, last week, where it sort of fell apart on me, and I wasn't able to access the internet at, so it might actually have something to do with my ISP. I don't share my internet with anyone outside of my home.
It's a possibility, easier to troubleshoot within your LAN than your connection to the ISP. If at all possible, wire your computer to the router (hoping you have a laptop and an available Ethernet cable) and see if there's still a problem.
Lucky I keep a spare Ethernet cable around! I'll check it out before I get to bed tonight, since my sister is currently dominating the room where the router is.
