You Tube - which codec does it use?

SexyGreyFox · 9 Jul 2006 at 12:45

Seems that over the last two weeks I can't view any videos on You Tube - it just stays 'loading'.

Any ideas?

Mr_L · 9 Jul 2006 at 13:38

http://www.youtube.com/t/help_troubleshoot

The videos won't play—what's wrong?

All of the videos on YouTube are streamed through a Flash player, so you need to have the latest version of Macromedia Flash installed on your computer. To download it, please visit Adobe.

SexyGreyFox · 9 Jul 2006 at 14:54

Installed but getting nowhere.
I just get the player with 'loading' and it stays there forever on 3 different browsers :confused:

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 Jul 2006 at 15:06

As long as you have the latest version of flash it should just play, you can check it if you want on this site that I was working on but scrapped as its got old and rubbish but it uses the same flash stuff as youtube www.mia-media.co.uk/mickjohnson, just click one of the top 6 images and see if the video plays back.

Memphis · 9 Jul 2006 at 15:09

I can't be much help with this other than to suggest 'connection issues'. At work, we can't use either Google Video or YouTube. I don't know the exact reason but I can only assume proxy permissions are blocking the players?

SexyGreyFox · 9 Jul 2006 at 15:12

Sirrel Squirrel said:
As long as you have the latest version of flash it should just play, you can check it if you want on this site that I was working on but scrapped as its got old and rubbish but it uses the same flash stuff as youtube www.mia-media.co.uk/mickjohnson, just click one of the top 6 images and see if the video plays back.

Those work and you have talent :eek:

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 Jul 2006 at 15:18

dmpoole said:
Those work and you have talent

they're not my videos I'm afraid lol, I was working on the site for an editor at work but I still don't have all of his footage, that site hasn't been touched for a year lol

whitecrook · 9 Jul 2006 at 18:07

I get this too, but most times youtube works, but occasionaly is doesn't. Ach most of the time it's not even worth bothering

Energize · 9 Jul 2006 at 19:51

God knows why they dont just use wmp streaming.

Sirrel Squirrel · 9 Jul 2006 at 19:56

Probably so its easier for mac users or something, same question goes for google video too really

Energize · 9 Jul 2006 at 20:02

They should use divx or h.264 instead then. The quality of the videos is awful, for a big company like google to be using videos of that quality it boggles the mind. All windows users have wmp installed and all mac users have craptime so no one needs to download anything extra.

Toytown · 10 Jul 2006 at 12:39

Ive also got the loading screen and no video trys to play (or download), i have also tried it on 2-3 different browsers. My nephews computer also started doing the same thing, is it ISP related. Were both on NTL? 10Mbit and 1Mbit Package

EDIT - its ISP related, i just swapped to a proxy (not NTL) and the youtube videos now play perfectly.

The_KiD · 10 Jul 2006 at 13:02

Energize said:
They should use divx or h.264 instead then. The quality of the videos is awful, for a big company like google to be using videos of that quality it boggles the mind. All windows users have wmp installed and all mac users have craptime so no one needs to download anything extra.

lol it's a free video hosting service.

Can you imagine if they had all the videos in top quality and 1280x1024, the amount of disk space and bandwidth consumed would be phenomenal.

Sirrel Squirrel · 10 Jul 2006 at 13:35

The_KiD said:
lol it's a free video hosting service.

Can you imagine if they had all the videos in top quality and 1280x1024, the amount of disk space and bandwidth consumed would be phenomenal.

yep, on my site I've started doing all my videos in h.264 along with wmv streams, total of about 10 videos and I've filled 2GB, hosting company would want an extra £50 for another gig of space so imagine how much google and youtube would need :eek:

Energize · 10 Jul 2006 at 17:30

The_KiD said:
lol it's a free video hosting service.

Can you imagine if they had all the videos in top quality and 1280x1024, the amount of disk space and bandwidth consumed would be phenomenal.

You dont need a massive res you just need a decent bitrate, if they used x.264 they wouldnt need to increase the bitrate, thus no more bandwidth used and good quality videos, everyone a winner.

real · 10 Jul 2006 at 17:35

Not meaning to hijack the thread but I have a similar problem. I've got a rar file that I cant play. Real player says it need to download the software and then goes on to say that its not available on the server. Any ideas?

Caged · 10 Jul 2006 at 18:42

Energize said:
You dont need a massive res you just need a decent bitrate, if they used x.264 they wouldnt need to increase the bitrate, thus no more bandwidth used and good quality videos, everyone a winner.

I'm pretty sure Google especially looked into all of the options for a lot longer than you've been pondering it for. If WMV was the best option they'd have used it.

SexyGreyFox · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:45

real said:
Not meaning to hijack the thread but I have a similar problem. I've got a rar file that I cant play. Real player says it need to download the software and then goes on to say that its not available on the server. Any ideas?

A RAR file is a compressed file like a ZIP file. You need WINRAR to uncompress the file thats sitting inside the RAR file.

james.miller · 10 Jul 2006 at 19:47

the last two days ive not been able to veiw any youtube vids. all of them seem to hang before they start lol

SexyGreyFox · 10 Jul 2006 at 20:09

I have had some playing now.
It seems the ones that I really wanted must have been very busy eg Devvo on E4.