Flash Video player on Windows 8?

[gwpriester]

Is anybody else having the devils own time of trying to get Adobe's Flash Player to work in Windows 8?

I get frequent error messages that Adobe Flash Player has crashed. I have 11.6 r602 installed which I think is the most recent and any video I try to play in Firefox, IE, or Chrome is all mumbly even though the player volume settings are set the same as any other audio settings.

[steve.ledger]

You shouldn't always need to install Adobe Flash:

Adobe Flash Player is directly integrated with Google Chrome and enabled by default.
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin...&answer=108086

Flash Player is integrated with Internet Explorer in Windows 8. It's unnecessary to install Flash Player.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...windows-8.html

Also, there have been reports of crashes caused by AFP when installed while running the new StartUI rather than the Windows Explorer UI

[gwpriester]

OK, fine. And the only browser I have installed Flash for is Firefox. But, in all three browsers the sound on a Flash based movie sounds like someone has placed a thick pillow over the speakers. The sound is fine if I play Spotify or Rdio of any of my music on my computer. But YouTube really sounds as if its in a tube.

[gracehjs]

I had been watching YouTube on my new Windows8 machine with no problem. Yesterday I was watching a BBC programme called Countdown and IE get dying. Remembering what Sledger said I switched over to the IE app instead of the desktop version. That version worked fine. Until this thread it really hadn't registered that they were different animals. As its just a PC that is set up for watching stuff on my new TV it may take a while. Plus, I don't think I will bother switching my other PC from Windows 7.