You Tube videos stop playing

This is hardly camera related other than the fact that I watch tutorials for photoshop on youtube so I hope you all with bear with me.

I have an intermittent problem with my laptop running Windows 7. I always use my laptop wireless and when I open on line videos there is no problem. But without any pattern that I have noticed, my youtube videos will freeze and the browser will lock up. Rebooting doesn't change this condition. This may go on for a few days, and then mysteriously, videos will begin playing properly again.

Any ideas on what to try to fix this?

fixed with a little help from MaxxuM

Chris wrote in post #11395309
fixed with a little help from MaxxuM

Great! Thanks for posting the solution here, so that other people can benefit from this thread in the future!

From MaxxuM: Uninstall Flash, CClean registry, reboot, reinstall Flash and cross fingers...

When I crossed my fingers, everything started working again...jk

I have run into videos that stopped at the same second every time I tried playing them. It wasn't me or my PC with XP Pro, it was their video and YouTubes final processing step. It cleared itself up after a re-upload by the member, and I assume a reprocess by YouTube.