Help - Youtube videos

[Lynton]

Hi guys and girls of TP.

Can you help?

I try and watch a youtube clip either embedded in facebook, embedded in another site, or direct from youtube...

after about 2-3 seconds it just goes all "fuzzy" as in black screen with little white pixels such as static and a message "Oops an error occurred. Please try again."

If it makes any difference PC, windows 7 64bit home, and firefox.

Phone is fine, ipad fine...

Thanks

 

[Lynton]

It also occurs in Internet explorer too

 

[dinorock]

i think its more to do with broadband speed than anything have you tried changing the size of the vid to a lower setting hth mike

 

[neil_g]

Flash player up to date? as a starter for 10

 

[Lynton]

not bb speed.. 14Mbps connection, and phone on wifi works.... hmm flash player. Will try that

 

[Lynton]

Well adobe flash player 11 now installed and still being a silly arse!

 

[antihero]

Does YouTube still use flash?

 

[dinorock]

60mbs here and still lags occasionally when viewing 1080p vids just a guess I just lower the size and it sorts it

 

[jakeblu]

Does YouTube still use flash?

The default player is still flash but they have a trial option for html5. You can request it here

Steve

 

[jakeblu]

Well adobe flash player 11 now installed and still being a silly arse!

If you browser supports it you could switch to html5 in youtube and see if that helps

Steve

 

[neil_g]

Does YouTube still use flash?

Desktop does. Pages loaded on iOS doesn't though obviously.

 

[antihero]

ahhh, ok....I wasn't being arsey (if it came across that way), just wondered....with obviously IOS and now Android not supporting flash if they had fully moved over to html5 yet.

 

[neil_g]

didnt come across as arsey

apparently (30 second google) iOS uses h.264 streams directly from YouTube's servers