why when I am watching video online (youtube, yahoo music video, etc) does the video start and stop constantly?
rofehelrahm asked:
I get no steady flow when viewing online videos such as youtube
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4 Responses to “why when I am watching video online (youtube, yahoo music video, etc) does the video start and stop constantly?”
let it buffer,or load, first
you must have a bad connection. sometimes that happens to me, but i pause the video, let the red bar move ahead of the cirlce a little bit and hit play.
You have a slow connection.
Several times each day, YouTube shuts down a few of their
servers to update stuff. Be patient if YouTube is slow, stuck
or mangled. Transmissions from YouTube to your computer
are done in multiple tiny packets of data and flash at a time.
That’s why sometimes you may get any of these scenarios:
bits and pieces of text/thumbnails in weird places; sluggish
loading/buffering; the spinning circle going on forever; or the
player being blank. This problem could fix itself within a few
hours or by the next day.
If your YouTube continues to behave slow, stuck or strange,
it’s very possible that your directories of “temporary internet
files” and RAM (sometimes known as “cache”) are close to
the maximum and just cannot take anymore, the end result
being any of the above scenarios or videos that: A) come to
a complete freeze; B) start/stop/start/stop in a choppy way;
or C) never even make it onto your screen.
“Temporary internet files” are tiny bits of webpages that get
permanently put on your hard-drive. They will remain forever
on your computer, gradually plugging it up like hair stuck in
a sink drain, until you finally get rid of them — or “clear your
cache” of “temporary internet files”, “cookies”, and “history”.
Then reboot.
Note 1: if you’ve got Google Web Accelerator, or something
similar to it,…dump it, burn it, trash it, disable it, uninstall it;
– do everything you can to get rid of it. Not only does GWA
conflict with and ruin YouTube, using “Don’t Accelerate This
Website” won’t help you whatsoever.
Note 2: longer-running videos need “Flash” and “Shockwave”
in order to play smoothly. You don’t need anything else.
Note 3: a strange fix that once worked for me was changing
the URL from “www.youtube.com” to just “youtube.com” (or
you could even try “ca.youtube.com”).
Note 4: depending on the way your account was first set up,
your “video playblack quality” might be telling YouTube that
your internet connection speed is set to either “dynamic” or
“fast” — which makes YouTube play videos at higher quality.
Note 4: depending on the way your account was first set up,
your “video playblack quality” might be telling YouTube that
your internet connection speed is set to either “dynamic” or
“fast” — which makes YouTube play videos at higher quality.
This in turn eats up a lot of bandwidth, memory and “cache”.
If you are “signed-in” on YouTube as you are looking at this
answer, you can actually check your “VPQ” from right here
within Yahoo!Answers by clicking my link just below, which
will take you right to “YOUR VERY OWN” playback setting:
Otherwise after you “sign-in”, click the 4th black option that
will be on the left side, called “Playback Setup”.