Youtube Video's Freezing

ste-sim2x9 · 31 May 2015 at 18:24

Last few days when i try to watch a video on Youtube on Firefox it freezes. This only happens when i click the maximize button to watch in full screen. The video freezes but the sound carries on and the browser does not respond. A few 5+ seconds later the video starts to move. I've disabled all pugins but still no go and this does not happen on Chrome. Anyone else had this.

KIA · 31 May 2015 at 18:55

HTML5?

ste-sim2x9 · 31 May 2015 at 19:14

More info

kayomani · 31 May 2015 at 19:16

You could try the updated player with youtube.com/testtube

Rroff · 31 May 2015 at 19:20

Do you have a touchscreen device/connected? and/or is this Windows 7 or 8.

ste-sim2x9 · 31 May 2015 at 19:31

Windows 8.1 x64, it doesn't happen in google chrome or Internet Explorer

ste-sim2x9 · 31 May 2015 at 19:33

kayomani said:
You could try the updated player with youtube.com/testtube

Tried that

Orcvader · 31 May 2015 at 21:09

When you right click the player, does it say "About HTML5 player" or "About Flash..."?

ste-sim2x9 · 31 May 2015 at 21:28

Orcvader said:
When you right click the player, does it say "About HTML5 player" or "About Flash..."?

About Flash

Orcvader · 31 May 2015 at 22:21

What Firefox version are you using? IE and Chrome will use the HTML player which personally I find a lot more stable.

You can force the HTML5 player here: https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB

ste-sim2x9 · 1 Jun 2015 at 07:45

Firefox 38.0.1, when the video freezes so does firefox. All tabs freeze

ste-sim2x9 · 1 Jun 2015 at 20:53

Still freezes

Orcvader · 1 Jun 2015 at 21:06

That's a Flash problem, I got the freezing problem as well until Firefox introduced MSE support in 38.

On the Youtube link I linked earlier, are Media Source Extensions and MSE & H.264 ticked?

ste-sim2x9 · 2 Jun 2015 at 18:12

Orcvader said:
That's a Flash problem, I got the freezing problem as well until Firefox introduced MSE support in 38.

On the Youtube link I linked earlier, are Media Source Extensions and MSE & H.264 ticked?

Yes MSE & H.264 are ticked but MSE & WebM VP9 has a red !, not sure if thats relevant.

Orcvader · 2 Jun 2015 at 21:30

That's fine, FF doesn't support that yet.

Have you also enabled the HTML5 player on that page? You can check if Youtube is using the HTML5 player when you right click a video, it should say "About HTML5" instead of "About Flash".

ste-sim2x9 · 3 Jun 2015 at 07:51

Orcvader said:
That's fine, FF doesn't support that yet.

Have you also enabled the HTML5 player on that page? You can check if Youtube is using the HTML5 player when you right click a video, it should say "About HTML5" instead of "About Flash".

Yes but i also noticed that flash videos on other sites like bbc news do the same.

Orcvader · 3 Jun 2015 at 11:53

Sadly there's no way around that until those sites move to HTML5. The only other thing I can suggest is disable hardware acceleration in Flash and/or Firefox to see if that helps.

ste-sim2x9 · 3 Jun 2015 at 15:59

I'm also getting this error below.

I've only had this problem the last few weeks. This never happens on Chrome but i hate Chrome browser.