YouTube videos pauses and doesn't load

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Anyone else has this problem?
Whenever I play a YouTube video it stops loading midway and stays idle for like 3 minutes and then resumes.
I disabled all extensions and the problem still persists. This does not happen with Chrome or FF.

I Have a 1 Mbps internet connection.
Windows 7

[shelluser]

shelluser last edited by

Not this particular problem, no, but I do notice that Youtube can stutter a little bit whenever I'm doing stuff besides watching a video (browsing in another tab, writing an e-mail, etc.).

[lem729]

lem729 last edited by

A few ideas: Do you have the latest Adobe flash update, and did you get it by going to the Adobe website, and downloading it from within the Opera browser. If not, that's what you need to do. I believe the latest version is 17.0.0.188. Also, if you're using an ad-blocker, like AdBlock plus (but I guess it could be another), perhaps you have blacklisted YouTube accidentally. So you might want to take a closer look at your adblocker. Also, check you're firewall, and see if that's doing something adverse. You could try deactivating all of your extensions and see if that makes a difference.

Here are some links that might provide help, even though the poster may have been using a different browser. There seems to be a commonality to YouTube problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5JeZSyWSNE

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/67219-63-youtube-videos-suddenly-buffering-freezing-time

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/s5d4khp94wE