Problems with YouTube?

[tardcore]

Yep OP, been having the same issues. Videos that have played for a couple of years with never an issue are suddenly cranky if they will play at all. And this happens on multiple machines so isn't a localized issue. My guess is it is either an issue with the newest version of Adobe Flash Player or YouTube themselves have broken something. Either way my solution has been to find as many of the videos I like to watch on an alternative service such as Vimeo.

 

[Ravinoff]

So it isn't just me. Whenever I try to play a video over the last week or so, I've got to refresh the page before it'll start playing. I thought it was something in my Firefox config, though.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Anyone else get an issue where the ad crashes 1 second from the end and subsequently you can't watch the video?

Then you hit refresh and get another ad...

And then sometimes that ad crashes 1 second from the end too.

I lose my shit.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I've been having problems too, most notably recently I've had videos not load at all for about 20 seconds unless refreshed, in which case they work relatively fine.

I must really underestimate the difficulty of having a site that begins loading a video when it is played, and continues loading it while paused, and doesn't have to load it again when replayed.

 

[Matt Juers]

*sob with relief* So glad it isn't just me!

 

[Hero of Lime]

I guess I'm super lucky because I haven't encountered any of these problems everyone seems to have. Once in a while a video might do something odd or not finish loading, but that's usually because my internet is acting up. I will say that the Youtube "updates" are usually pretty lousy in general.

 

[lapan]

Updating my graphics driver seems to have helped somewhat, at least they don't instantly crash to an error anymore.

 

[Akytalusia]

oh. so it's not just me, or the specific videos i'm watching. good to know it's a site wide epidemic and the videos aren't actually broken. guess i'll just have to try watching them later.

 

[Aeshi]

Hey, you have it easy.

For me Youtube usually just flat out ends the video every 2 minutes or so. Meaning every 2 minutes I have to refresh the page and bring it back to where I was just to watch said video for another 2 minutes

 

[Syntax Error]

What I hate is that the thing seems to think that my home connection is slow and insists on playing on the lowest resolution possible.

 

[sky14kemea]

I don't usually have problems with youtube unless my internet is being screwy, but I do notice that videos never seem to buffer beforehand.

For instance, if I pause a video to go get some food, when I come back the buffer bar will have barely moved. But once I hit play, then it starts buffering a bit more. It's annoying because I end up glancing back at the buffer bar half the time instead of just watching the video.

 

[Angie7F]

I dont have errors but I get 30 secong advertisments that I cant skip. So annoying.