Videos freezing up

[bluefeet]

Any video I try to watch (YouTube, CNN, etc.) locks up on me after just a few seconds. I tried deleting cookies, temp files...well, that's basically all this old guy knows how to do.

All other apps seem to work fine & this problem is only recent (last week or so). I'm running XP on an IBM ThinkPad laptop, if that helps.

Any clue what might be my problem?

Thanks!