Some web video is not working for me browser independently. Why?

Some flash videos are simply not working for me. One example is gamespot.com. The flash element loads, but it does not display correctly or play the video.

This also happens on other sites, for example gameone.de. However most sites, e. g. youtube.com work. Strangely, this happens with all browsers, not just my default browser (which is chrome). I am on windows 7 64.

I even tried to connect to a VPN, no change.

I suspect this is some problem with a flash setting. i tried turning off hardware acceleration, but no change. Also, I tried googling for an answer with little success.

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

I finally solved this. Essentially the solution is to remove all application data for flash. Here's the instructions I followed if someone finds this post:

Let's try the following: Close your browser windows In Explorer, navigate to the following folder: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ (the easiest way to accomplish this is to type %appdata% in Explorer's path bar.) Delete the Macromedia folder Next, go into the Adobe folder and delete the "Flash Player" folder inside. Finally, go to "c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash" and look for an mms.cfg file. If one is present, please rename it. Once complete, try those offending sites out again.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/906688