Youtube issues.

Sin_Chase said:
It's just youtube.

It's naff at times and nothing to do with your connection. Web player will freeze and refuse to buffer more, but I can download the video from youtube via an app at 20Mbit/Sec solid.
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This isn't YouTube. I never have any issues and I use it with different ISPs on a daily basis. Who is your ISP?
 
I have similar issues and it seems to be worse on "protected" videos.

For example, if i'm watching Come Dine With Me (hey, don't judge!) it quite often freezes and stutters like hell (both on my old 30Mb VM line and now on my 1Mb Sky line, across all browsers). Normal videos seem to be less affected.

Quite often I have to open the video in a new tab before it'll resume properly. Annoying!
 
Watched an hour long vid yesterday, and that was fine, while a little later, attempting to watch a six minute one was the opposite. Make of that what you will.
 
The last week I have been having terrible problems with youtube. (30Mb VM). Weirdly it seems to be less problematic on my Windows8 laptop.
 
KIA said:
This isn't YouTube. I never have any issues and I use it with different ISPs on a daily basis. Who is your ISP?
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I'm not sure you fully read or appreciated what my post said.

Same ISP, same time. YouTube WebPlayer refuses to buffer. jDownloader app will download the same video to a local file at 20Mbit/Sec.

How is it NOT YouTube and it's web player in this instance? It's clearly not a connection issue.
 
Sin_Chase said:
I'm not sure you fully read or appreciated what my post said.

Same ISP, same time. YouTube WebPlayer refuses to buffer. jDownloader app will download the same video to a local file at 20Mbit/Sec.

How is it NOT YouTube and it's web player in this instance? It's clearly not a connection issue.
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Streaming protocol is different to downloading a file. Why wont you mention the ISP?
 
KIA said:
Streaming protocol is different to downloading a file. Why wont you mention the ISP?
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It's not when you are capturing the stream into a local file. It's not a right click save as, it's a stream capture.

No point you even telling you my ISP as the chances of you would even having heard of it are slim, let alone used it. :p

The webplayer is pretty hit and miss. Sometimes I will buffer a huge amount of a 1080p file and then it just bums out and never buffers anything else, ever. Just jams.
 
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Sin_Chase said:
It's not when you are capturing the stream into a local file. It's not a right click save as, it's a stream capture.

No point you even telling you my ISP as the chances of you would even having heard of it are slim, let alone used it. :p

The webplayer is pretty hit and miss. Sometimes I will buffer a huge amount of a 1080p file and then it just bums out and never buffers anything else, ever. Just jams.
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Well, everything points to it being a PC or ISP issue, since nobody else is having similar issues, apart from VM users.
 
I've recently swapped to a different router, and Youtube seems to be working better for me now, especially over Wifi.

The thing is there are so many points of failure, Isp? router? wifi? flash plugin? so it's hard to find the source of the issue.
 
If you don't have another computer to hand, you can try downloading Crunchbang.

Just click this link and select 32-bit, burn that to a CD and restart your computer. This is a boot CD and runs completely from the CD, gives you a linux environment that is setup just like windows and doesn't touch your windows installation. People mainly use it as a rescue tool when windows/HDD fails.

Right click and choose web browser, if your youtube videos are still affected then you'll know it's not your windows instillation.
 
Bit off point, but can I ask what the hell is going on with YT design?...the video isn't sitting in the middle of the screen anymore, it sits to the left with the recommendations sitting right in the middle.
 
I'll give you a little scrap, try the 'Magic Actions' extension on either firefox or chrome. Goodness me it turns youtube into something incredible and adds extreme customization.


We can thank Lethagized for that one, here on OcUK.
 
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Virgin Media here. I get issues with YouTube also.

timestamp seconds 99.795
1280x720, 655 average kbps, 100% volume
HTTPVideoPlayer, HTTP, 9659 kbps
24 stage fps, 6 video fps, 630 dropped, 0 kbps
accelerated video rendering, software video decoding
-17.090 db, 1 audio factor

Anyone see any problems in this piece of information?

May be an issue to do with Flash Player or even YouTube itself. Highly doubt it will be ISPs that are the main cause of any particular issues.
 
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