This is a bit off-topic but I wanted to share because it seems a lot of people are running into issues with choppy video playback and stutter on Mac OS X.
I am using a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard (10.6.8) as a home media center and it has worked great in the past, playing back music and videos from multiple sources (web, quicktime, VLC, EyeTV). A few weeks ago the video playback from all my sources started to become choppy, to stutter, and often the picture would hang for seconds at a time. Totally unusable. Drove me nuts for two weeks.
After much research and trial-and-error it turns out the problem was an outdated Flash Player which seems to have messed up the video pipeline for the entire system. The short is, I updated the Flash Player to version 11 directly from the Adobe web site, rebooted the Mac Mini, and all is well again!
Judging from the various posts across the web, video playback appears to be a fairly widespread problem for Mac users and I hope this helps some of you out there! And I can’t wait to get rid of Flash altogether – I can’t remember the times it has crashed my browser, hung my system, and screwed up things. Thanks Adobe ;-(
Cheers,
— Terrence
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12/16/2011 at 10:56
Bags
Flash Player 11 was causing choppy video for me on youtube and nba.com; the new 11.2 beta does not help either. Going to 10.3.183.11 fixed it up.
01/09/2012 at 11:43
Jay
Flash Player 11 choppy for me too.
Bags’ solution worked a treat though – thanks!
Download 10.3.183.11 from: http://www.mac.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?old_flash_player=849
01/09/2012 at 11:45
Jay
Sorry! Correction to above URL (delete ‘www’).
Try http://mac.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?old_flash_player=849
01/27/2013 at 21:31
Randy Garbin
I assume you install the old version of Flash on the source computer? Or do you install it on the receiving system?
02/16/2013 at 16:32
Ryan
Thank you so much for this! I was certain it was the video card that was dead. Only when I switched cards and the problem persisted on that one computer, did I think to search online.
02/23/2013 at 01:47
Bags
Make sure to use the “latest” 10.3 flasy player: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
Cheers.