Is anybody else's Youtube videos abruptly stopping?

[Slammer1337]

I played a 17 minute video on 360p and it stopped 3 seconds after the video started. Completely. The video never says it's buffering, it just stops. I waited for 10 minutes now for the video to play and it never actually played. I tried fast-forwarding and restarting the video, but it just switches back to the 0:03 mark.

I'm getting really pissed off about Youtube. They always predict that you have a crappy computer and sets the videos down to 144p after around 20-30 seconds of the video playing if the Quality settings are set to Auto. It probably is a buffering issue, but it's a very serious one, because I can't watch jack stuff now.

But to make sure I don't sound like a stubborn ass with an old Verizon router, is anyone else having the same issue recently?

Oh yeah, this isn't just a problem for one video. I tried to play three other ones and the same result came up, and get this: most of them never actually played.

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[KoopaScooper]

Yes. I've been constantly blaming it on my browser or connection, but now it's pretty obvious the problem lies with YouTube itself.

[Slammer1337]

Tried using Google's Youtube app, but the obvious result was the video and sound quality getting butchered with no way to fix it.

go home youtube you're drunk

[Acerblock]

I keep getting a ! in a circle icon and my videos are being interrupted.

[slimabob]

Aye

[Nickelob Ultra]

videos are not loading period for me.  almost no video on youtube works for me.  the most i can get is approximately 1 second of video out of a 16 second video, this is not an exaggeration.

idk what the forget is happening over there.  probably that loving geek week stuff they're trying to pull off.

[Acerblock]

That damn geek week, their comedy week was stupid enough, I'm sorry.

[Yenola³]

oh thank god it's not just me, I was starting to worry

Every once in a while the video will just absolutely stop, no way to get it going again unless I completely refresh and find the place I was at

[Bisjac]

ie switched from firefox to chrome, and switched youtube to the html5 version.

now it runs properly

[BluetoothBoy]

Mobile works just fine.

[Ceist]

yeah, but my videos also skip certain parts.

[Niff]

That happened to me when I was watching some videos, I had to refresh the page to fix it...

[Pacha+]

not happening to me