Pretty much every video player is broken for me in one way or another. HTML5 plays for 1 second and just stops. YouTube is private. Streaming plays for like 10 seconds then stops, and progressive works sometimes but I don't want to download the whole video if I'm not watching all of it. Then I check comments and no one else seems to be having any problems! What the hell.
Seems the streaming video isn't freezing, it's just loading small chunks extremely slowly. Please get YouTube working again, it was always better than the site's player anyway.
OK I deleted all my giantbomb.com cookies and cleared my cache. The streaming video is working fine now, so it could have been something on my end causing the slowness.