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uke2se

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Quite often when trying to watch a video on Youtube, the buffering stops, only to immediately go to indicate a completely buffered video. At this point, the video stops playing and can't be turned on again without reloading the page or switching quality. This has started over the last few weeks, and I have noticed it on several different computers with different ISPs.

Any idea what has happened? Can I fix it somehow? I've looked through Youtubes help-pages, but can't find what I'm looking for.
 
uke2se said:
Quite often when trying to watch a video on Youtube, the buffering stops, only to immediately go to indicate a completely buffered video. At this point, the video stops playing and can't be turned on again without reloading the page or switching quality. This has started over the last few weeks, and I have noticed it on several different computers with different ISPs.

Any idea what has happened? Can I fix it somehow? I've looked through Youtubes help-pages, but can't find what I'm looking for.
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I haven't noticed this effect. Does it happen with every video, or just certain ones maybe at certain resolutions? Can you link any examples?
 
GeeMack said:
I haven't noticed this effect. Does it happen with every video, or just certain ones maybe at certain resolutions? Can you link any examples?
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It doesn't happen to every video, but is much more prevalent on longer ones. It's more prevalent with higher resolutions, but it happens at 480p and even 360p. Once I experienced it at 240p.

This is an example of a video that I had trouble with.
 
Does it always happen with the same browser and same level of flash on the various machines?

I've been having a lot of problems with firefox and shockwave flash over the past few weeks. The exact same videos work fine in Chrome, but acts as you describe in firefox.
 
Dancing David said:
My guess is that it is your network connection speed or malware. Unless some other process is hogging resources.
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As I said, I've tested it on multiple computers with different ISPs and different hardware. None of these computers had the issue a couple of months ago.
 
madurobob said:
Does it always happen with the same browser and same level of flash on the various machines?

I've been having a lot of problems with firefox and shockwave flash over the past few weeks. The exact same videos work fine in Chrome, but acts as you describe in firefox.
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I'm using Chrome. Don't know if it happens in any other browsers.
 
madurobob said:
right, but what browsers, java and Flash versions/combinations?
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Oooohhh... I wouldn't know about that.

Let's just go with this: I'm using an updated copy of Google Chrome with fully updated java and fully updated flash. Don't know version numbers.

I'm the kind of person that just presses "ok" when a prompt tells me to update something.
 
uke2se said:
Oooohhh... I wouldn't know about that.

Let's just go with this: I'm using an updated copy of Google Chrome with fully updated java and fully updated flash. Don't know version numbers.

I'm the kind of person that just presses "ok" when a prompt tells me to update something.
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:) Negates my theory. I have the latest releases of Firefox, Java, Flash & Chrome on all three of my home computers. On all three I experience problems with videos that require Flash (like the one you posted) when I use Firefox to view. Those problems do not exist when I use Chrome.

So, my theory is that *something* peculiar to my Firefox settings is conflicting with Flash. I just haven't found what that something is.
 
I think YouTube videos now stream in 'parts' instead of streaming the full single file.
Maybe the problem is that the first 'part' loads and then for whatever reason the computer rejects the next one... Or I may be talking crap. :)

You should be able to check though by accessing the 'activity' preference and you will see the file which streaming as it's file size will be increasing as it streams.
Though again I'm presuming Chrome has one of those as Firefox and Safari do.
 
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This could be a firewall issue. If you have a third-party firewall, try to disable it and use the Windows firewall instead, and see if that helps.
 
I'm using cable, so no wireless. I'm not sure if that can have interference, but it seems strange that the same thing should show up on multiple computers in different locations (at work and at home). There are firewalls on all of the computers, but different kinds, and I didn't have these problems until a few months ago.

It's not really an earth-shattering problem, but it is kind of annoying.
 
Could your Internet connection be dropping out? I had this kind of problem due to a dodgy phone cable.
 
uke2se said:
I'm using cable, so no wireless. I'm not sure if that can have interference, but it seems strange that the same thing should show up on multiple computers in different locations (at work and at home). There are firewalls on all of the computers, but different kinds, and I didn't have these problems until a few months ago.

It's not really an earth-shattering problem, but it is kind of annoying.
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That's odd. As the problem seems totally unrelated to your configuration, my final guess would be that video is in a content delivery network, ie. it has been replicated multiple times and is available on various servers. From these servers, Youtube picks the one closest to you, telling by your IP address. Perhaps the cause of the problems is that you just so happen to be assigned to a server having stability issues. To find out if this is the case, there are two ways:
1) Specify a proxy in your browser (by this, Youtube will see the IP of the proxy instead of your IP and thus assign a different server to you).
2) Or just try to view a video that barely gets any hits. If a video has only very few hits per day, ie. 1-20, it won't be multiplied in the network.
 
Verklagekasper said:
That's odd. As the problem seems totally unrelated to your configuration, my final guess would be that video is in a content delivery network, ie. it has been replicated multiple times and is available on various servers. From these servers, Youtube picks the one closest to you, telling by your IP address. Perhaps the cause of the problems is that you just so happen to be assigned to a server having stability issues. To find out if this is the case, there are two ways:
1) Specify a proxy in your browser (by this, Youtube will see the IP of the proxy instead of your IP and thus assign a different server to you).
2) Or just try to view a video that barely gets any hits. If a video has only very few hits per day, ie. 1-20, it won't be multiplied in the network.
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Thank you. I will try this.
 
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