This has been happening a lot lately, mostly on YouTube. I don't know if it's YouTube, Adobe Flash or Firefox:
This will happen even half-way through playing a video, it will randomly turn into this image. I have to restart Firefox to continue to play YouTube videos.
Best Answer
It is accused of being a bug (of certain versions of Flash Player) and an out of memory notification.
Adobe Forums: Gray circle with white exclamation mark on white background