Youtube vids wont work :S

[ToxicPaddy]

Hi everyone

Well, im trying to watch some YouTube videos and they wont work. I search them, click on them and the screen comes up with that little circle thing flashing in the video box as if its loading, and it doesnt go off. If it does go off, the first picture of the video will show and the video will not load. Sometimes it loads but it takes hours and hours for the whole video to load. If a video does load quickly, then it works all the time without any problems. But if I click it and it doesnt load, it never works. I have a wireless internet connection using Internet Explorer on vista.

Any help?
ToxicPaddy

[msb.]

Hi everyone

Well, im trying to watch some YouTube videos and they wont work. I search them, click on them and the screen comes up with that little circle thing flashing in the video box as if its loading, and it doesnt go off. If it does go off, the first picture of the video will show and the video will not load. Sometimes it loads but it takes hours and hours for the whole video to load. If a video does load quickly, then it works all the time without any problems. But if I click it and it doesnt load, it never works. I have a wireless internet connection using Internet Explorer on vista.

Any help?
ToxicPaddy
Try stoping it then pressing play or just refresh the homepage or browser?

[BlueEyedSarah]

I was watching YouTube videos just now and now they wont load up. I'm experiancing the same problem as you so your not alone. Must be the site, it always seems to have something wrong with it.

[ToxicPaddy]

Try stoping it then pressing play or just refresh the homepage or browser?
Nope, tried it lots of times.

And there must be something wrong with the site if it isint just me.

[msb.]

Nope, tried it lots of times.

And there must be something wrong with the site if it isint just me.
nope youtube is working fine :S
restart computer?

[jesus]

Youtube regularly goes slow for me.

[ToxicPaddy]

It has been going on for a few weeks, restarting doesnt help

[Neversoft]

It happens to me sometimes. If it continues for ages contact YouTube and ask them what the problem is.

[BlueEyedSarah]

In my opinion I think its pointless contacting YouTube because they either don't respond or take a month+ to respond. I have wrote to YouTube a few times and it took them a month to 2 months before they responded. With the amount of people on the site it must be difficult for them to respond to many of the members.

[Virgin Mary]

It happens when the servers that host the videos are down or under heavy use.

[ToxicPaddy]

So whats the soloution? :(

[mat64]

So whats the soloution? :(

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=56115