Lost Video Island

LostFreakJ · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: YouTube problem

Because many vids here are only on YouTube, I need an answer to this question ^^

YouTube is going really slow, but by slow I mean really. When I want to watch a vid, it takes so long to load it. Sometimes it takes 30 minutes to watch a 3 minutes video.
Someone in my class said I should install QuickTime, and it worked! For a while, at least. When I installed Quicktime, the vids were immediately ready to play. Now it doesn't anymore, again. I tried to reinstall Quiktime again, but it's still the same.
I hate this, because I want to watch so many vids here, but I can't because it takes that long

Does anyone else has this problem or has a solution for it?
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Aislynn · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject:

I went to YouTube and looked at their Help section. Here's the troubleshooting page. The part that's most pertinent to you, though, is probably this part:

leylin · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject:

if that doesnt work, you may also want to get it checked for viruses... youtube did that to me until i got it fixed... now it works great! but i would do what aislynn said first, then maybe take my suggestion..
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Aislynn · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:18 am Post subject:

That's a very good point, Leylin! There are all sorts of nasty virus/spybots/adware/malware things out there that can mess up a computer like that!

If installing the Flash player doesn't do any good (or if it says you already have it installed or something like that), you definitely want to make sure you don't have any bad beasties hiding in your computer. In fact, you want to make sure of that any way!

*hates all viruses/spybots/adware/malware*

LostFreakJ · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

Installing the player doesn't work. It says a movie should play above, but it doesn', so I guess it's already installed ^^

About the virus thing... Something really different... I was searching my anti-virus program, I find out I don't have any!

Just the basic in Windows!

Any suggestions for such programs that are good and not slowing you pc too much at the same time ?
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leylin · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:40 am Post subject:

take it to a specialist??

some viruses hide... *pulls out computer machine gun specially designed for all viruses

*, lol.

id still get it checked out just in case...

maybe try sending a message to the people at youtube for suggestions too..
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Aislynn · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:49 am Post subject:

Hobbes · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

Aislynn's such a pro

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Exactly what she said lol. Sorry, but I'm not much more help either

. Though I believe my friend had this same problem, where flash wouldn't work for him... sometimes it can just be the computer itself, where it can't read certain fdata files correctly due to some corruption of the operating system. For instance, my computer can't run MPEGs properly

it just did it out of the blue, and with all the research I could do that's the best I came up with. Now when I play MPEGs, it will only play about 1 minute of it, even if the vid is longer than 1 minute, then restart. But sometimes it just happens