So over the last 3-5 days, I've noticed that various YouTube videos suddenly no longer play on my computer -- I keep getting a message saying, "An error occurred, please try again later. Learn More". I've followed all the suggestions from the webpage that appears (from clicking on the Learn More link) -- making sure I have the latest version of FlashPlayer, making sure I have the latest version of my web browser, making sure JavaScript is enabled, etc. -- but to no avail.
It's not all (or even most) videos that stop playing, thankfully, just certain ones. There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to which videos stop working, either: It's been everything from music videos, to movie clips, to game reviews. In addition, there's not even consistency with videos from the same account: For example, most music videos from a musical artist will play just fine, for instance, but then 1 or 2 of them flatly refuse to play for no obvious reason; you'd think it'd be all or nothing, but no.
I've run into this issue on both the XP and Win7 half of my hard drive, and on both Firefox and Internet Explorer. From what I can tell so far, there's no obvious common denominator.
Has anyone else been experiencing this problem at all? Or is just me?
Cleared your browser cache? Rebooted the machine?
Oh yeah (to both). Did that a couple days ago.
and clean out the malware from those 'sites' you visit.
I had an issue with YouTube suddenly not wanting to go fullscreen in Chrome. Couldn't figure it out no matter how many tech articles I looked up, so I just migrated to Firefox if I wanted to see any. The problem seemed to fix itself eventually.
Either that or that midget Soviet hairy Autobot/Buffy crossover porn is starting to get to my computer...
Quote from: Martok on July 11, 2014, 01:57:22 PM
Oh yeah (to both). Did that a couple days ago.
Sorry, working in IT makes me ask those questions ;)
Is it just Youtube vids or does it happen with media players on other sites?
There's a real possibility that it's your ISP doing some kind of bandwidth throttling.
Quote from: mirth on July 11, 2014, 02:34:42 PM
Quote from: Martok on July 11, 2014, 01:57:22 PM
Oh yeah (to both). Did that a couple days ago.
Sorry, working in IT makes me ask those questions ;)
No offense taken. I'm a tech ignoramus, so I don't mind the "stupid" questions. :P
Quote from: mirth on July 11, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
Is it just Youtube vids or does it happen with media players on other sites?
There's a real possibility that it's your ISP doing some kind of bandwidth throttling.
I've only noticed YouTube so far, but then I don't frequent many other sites that play/host lots of videos. (Shut up
Star; no, not those either. O:-) ) That's an interesting possibility, though; I hadn't considered that.
YouTube videos play okay for me using Firefox.
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Quote from: Greybriar on July 11, 2014, 06:44:41 PM
YouTube videos play okay for me using Firefox.
Thanks
Greybriar. While admittedly it's not exactly what I'd hoped to hear (as it means the problem is almost certainly specific to my machine), I can't say I'm surprised.
I'm guessing I recently downloaded something onto my computer -- I pray it's merely a software update of some sort (and not malware/virus) -- that's caused this, but for the life of me, I can't think what.
Quote from: eyebiter on July 11, 2014, 06:56:59 PM
First update your flash software, to fix the inevitable new security vulnerability.
Yep, that was one of the first things I did.
EDIT: Sorry, I didn't see that other thread. I've got the latest update...but still no luck. :(
Quote from: eyebiter on July 11, 2014, 06:56:59 PM
As for your videos now playing are you using a script blocking software?
If so you might have to allow some or all of the following:
youtube.com
ytimg.com
google.com
I do use Firefox's NoScript add-on, but I also allow the above three addresses.
Quote from: eyebiter on July 11, 2014, 06:56:59 PM
googlesyndication.com
googletagservices.com
I don't allow these two, and have never had a problem playing YouTube videos before because of it. However, for the sake of thoroughness, I temporarily allowed them to see if it would change anything; no joy, unfortunately. :(
Quote from: eyebiter on July 11, 2014, 06:56:59 PM
Or you could try the HTML5 player
https://www.youtube.com/html5
I gave that a roll, but it didn't work either. Thanks, though!
First, make sure you allow cookies, otherwise YouTube videos won't play!
Uninstall flash, you don't need it for YouTube!
To be clear, most YouTube videos still play just fine on my computer. It's only a small fraction -- I'd guess less than 5% of them -- that I'm suddenly having problems with.
Quote from: Martok on July 13, 2014, 11:31:09 AM
To be clear, most YouTube videos still play just fine on my computer. It's only a small fraction -- I'd guess less than 5% of them -- that I'm suddenly having problems with.
Martok, I just read your initial post again and I confess that I get that same error message at times. I think that particular error is not related to you or your computer but to either youtube and/or your ISP. There could be some kind of complaint lodged with youtube and they are temporarily disabling the vid while checking it out
or your ISP is selectively blocking certain 'blacklisted' videos for their own reasons.
I dont have problems with youtube or reuters videos. I do have trouble with BBC news and other sites.
Well I finally discovered what the problem was. Or rather, someone in the Firefox support community figured it out, and I stumbled across their solution whilst searching Firefox support for answers. (I'd noticed the issue had cropped up after the latest FF update, so I'd wondered if perhaps that was somehow the cause.)
Anyway, what I had to do was disable the "hardware acceleration" setting for Adobe Flash Player. It turns out that on the more recent versions of AFP, having hardware acceleration enabled can cause certain videos to not play for whatever reason. (Incidentally, it just hit me yesterday that most of the YouTube vids that weren't playing for me were at least two years old, which I'm guessing isn't a coincidence.) I suppose that means that newer videos might suffer a bit performance-wise, but I prefer that to being unable to play older videos, a number of which I have saved to various playlists. :)
you want a job in IT?
btw, the correct answer is NO.
Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2014, 01:26:47 PM
btw, the correct answer is NO.
Don't worry. I'm not even slightly tech-savvy, but at least I'm smart enough to *know* that I'm not. :P
butt he is smart enough to clear his browser history.
Only when Mom is visiting. ;)
Glad you got it sorted Martok!
Whenever I use or have used TeamSpeak in the current Windows session on my laptop, I cannot play YT video's anymore.
They just wont play a new one anymore and the current one has no audio anymore.
My desktop doesnt have this problem.