Youtube doesn't work

[Lukeee]

Every time I visit youtube I have to reload every video about 15 times before it works. I always get the message about an error and trying again later.

It really pisses me off ad I have no idea why it happens. Could it be my computer or is it just youtube?

 

[star-warrior]

Are you using a PC, and is your machine old? What browser and version?

Is your flash up to date?

Try clearing your browser cache, and retrying...

 

[racer2438]

everything is perfectly fine at my end....no problems...

 

[trinket]

Hey Lukeee - try visiting this thread, my second post in it contains a bunch of links to a Flash diagnostic at Adobe's site, a latest-version checker, reinstall tips, etc. I sometimes get the message you get, but notice it's during Youtube outages (confirmed by oodles of Twitter postings within the same minutes from users complaining) - if you're seeing it more often, you can check Flash at your end, clear your cookies/cache (your Youtube signon might be wonky) and try again. Are you having this issue with any other Flash-based site like redtube, xtube, etc.?

 

[Lukeee]

Thanks for the advice. It normally happens when I have a lot of things running so I guess it could be something to do with not having enough space.

Are you having this issue with any other Flash-based site like redtube, xtube, etc.?

Sometimes happens on xtube (the video just loads forever) but that is also when I have a lot of things running.

If I went onto youtube/xtube now the videos would load fine because i just turned my pc on. If I went onto the site after a few days (i leave my pc on a lot) then they wouldn't load well.

My pc is about 2 years old. it is vista (i got it about 6 months after vista came out which i think is 2 years) i'm using firefox and everything is up to date.

next time it happens im gonna try clearing the cache.

 

[star-warrior]

You could invest in a little extra RAM, if there are slots available...

 

[Corny]

^ youtube does not use java.