This has been one of the slowest days on the forum in a long time. IMO

[vision63]

(vikm) wrote:
Oh, here's this. I have a tech question that maybe can be answered here or if not, I'll start a new thread.

I periodically experience problems viewing Youtube vids in my browsers. It just shows a black screen and refuses to start the track. I am running the most recent OS, browser updates, etc. I do leave my iMac on pretty much 24/7 with multiple browser windows open at a time (some stuffed off in the dock) with multiple tabs in each. I'm assuming it's just a memory issue of some sort. Likely? If I quit out of the browser and relaunch, it will fix the problems most times but not always. Any ideas (other than don't do what I've been doing)? Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Mac Users have been defaulted into YouTube's Html5 trial (could be different by now). If it sniffs that you're using a Mac, it will serve up Html5 instead of Flash. Generally, if you opt out of the trial, it'll work more smoothly.

[modelamac]

$tevie wrote:
The forum doesn't load very well for me these days. Is anyone else having that problem? Sometimes it takes so long that I give up and go elsewhere. :-(

When that happens to me, I launch Namebench (free) to see if it is a DNS server problem. It usually is.

[freeradical]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=(vikm)]
Oh, here's this. I have a tech question that maybe can be answered here or if not, I'll start a new thread.

I periodically experience problems viewing Youtube vids in my browsers. It just shows a black screen and refuses to start the track. I am running the most recent OS, browser updates, etc. I do leave my iMac on pretty much 24/7 with multiple browser windows open at a time (some stuffed off in the dock) with multiple tabs in each. I'm assuming it's just a memory issue of some sort. Likely? If I quit out of the browser and relaunch, it will fix the problems most times but not always. Any ideas (other than don't do what I've been doing)? Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Mac Users have been defaulted into YouTube's Html5 trial (could be different by now). If it sniffs that you're using a Mac, it will serve up Html5 instead of Flash. Generally, if you opt out of the trial, it'll work more smoothly.
Thanks! I've been having some really odd issues with youtube as well.

I'g going to opt out and see if things get better.

[vision63]

freeradical wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=(vikm)]
Oh, here's this. I have a tech question that maybe can be answered here or if not, I'll start a new thread.

I periodically experience problems viewing Youtube vids in my browsers. It just shows a black screen and refuses to start the track. I am running the most recent OS, browser updates, etc. I do leave my iMac on pretty much 24/7 with multiple browser windows open at a time (some stuffed off in the dock) with multiple tabs in each. I'm assuming it's just a memory issue of some sort. Likely? If I quit out of the browser and relaunch, it will fix the problems most times but not always. Any ideas (other than don't do what I've been doing)? Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Mac Users have been defaulted into YouTube's Html5 trial (could be different by now). If it sniffs that you're using a Mac, it will serve up Html5 instead of Flash. Generally, if you opt out of the trial, it'll work more smoothly.
Thanks! I've been having some really odd issues with youtube as well.

I'g going to opt out and see if things get better.
Yeah, give it a whirl. From YouTube's perspective, if Apple is not going to bundle Flash with any of it's products then it makes sense to drive us to what they know will work. Html5 still has a ways to go. Your mileage may vary.