A few days ago, youtube videos quit playing on every computer in my house. My web access is perfectly normal, and no other sites are giving me any trouble. I have checked my flash version and the adobe site identifies it as the current version. Anybody else having issues?
FWIW, the affected computers are running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS.
Which browser?
Turn off Flash and see if it works, Youtube switched to HTML5 videos a while back, but I can't remember if it prefers those over the flash based ones or vice versa.
Firefox 37.0.1 on this machine. I've already tried clearing cache and cookies and history. Still no workie.
Try Chrome or a different computer?
Firefox 37.0.1 and it works fine on this machine. I believe it's set to HTML5, though.
It updated to 37.0.2 while I was checking the version. Still works.
safari here … as long as I keep updating my Flash whenever they prompt me to it works fine … my only problem is trying to get them to upload from iPhoto (will not) and from iMovie, will if I dick with it long enough
Have you contacted your internet service provider?
Haven't had any problems over the last few days on Linux, and I doubt everything is totally up to date on mine. In fact if this were a Linux problem I'd be getting calls about it right now.
nderwater wrote: Have you contacted your internet service provider?
Um. Given that Comcast has legendary customer support, what would that do for me exactly? 
As I was shutting down last night, it occurred to me that the router had been up for a long time without a shutdown. I was hopeful a restart would fix it, but no such luck.
Whatever it is, it's specific to youtube, since I can play videos on vimeo and hulu.
1988RedT2 wrote: Comcast
Gotcha.
May or not be related: http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/20/8459677/youtube-shuts-down-access-on-older-devices
"YouTube is winding down its service to myriad older devices today... YouTube notes that 'select' devices that were made in 2012 (or earlier) will find that any special-made YouTube apps will no longer work thanks to a change in YouTube's Data API."
I'm having a problem with YouTube in FireFox. The video doesn't load, nor do the previews of other videos. Ponderous man.
I fiddled with it some more and actually got a video to play in Firefox, but I could not replicate the success. I was changing the quality to a lower setting when it worked, but no success on subsequent attempts.
I would reboot your modem (actually power it off for about 30-60 minutes) and reboot your router(s). Sometimes your modem/connection will need to be refreshed because of the piss-poor way Comcast manages their network (routing all of the packets, instead of dropping the ones that can't technically be routed, routing bad or malformed packets, etc.)
I had a similar problem. I was told to go to tools. internet options. the advanced tab and click the box for grafics accelerators that says use software instead of GPU rendering. It is the first box on mine. hope this helps.
My DVD player which I use to stream internet shows, has been saying for a few months that YouTube would stop working on this devise on 4/20/15. So they must have changed something!
Just confirmed Youtube's still working for me on Ubuntu 12.04 (man do I need to upgrade) and Firefox 37 with Flash 11.2
Sofa King wrote: My DVD player which I use to stream internet shows, has been saying for a few months that YouTube would stop working on this devise on 4/20/15. So they must have changed something!
That's a completely different issue - your DVD player uses a specific API to stream Youtube and Google is turning off that older API version. Nothing to do with watching Youtube in a browser.
GameboyRMH wrote: Just confirmed Youtube's still working for me on Ubuntu 12.04 (man do I need to upgrade) and Firefox 37 with Flash 11.2
Check to see that your video hardware is supported. When I upgraded from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS, my frame rate in certain games got cut in half. My old ATI card is no longer supported, but worked great with 12.04.
Try Firefox 37.0.1
BoxheadTim wrote: Which browser? Turn off Flash and see if it works, Youtube switched to HTML5 videos a while back, but I can't remember if it prefers those over the flash based ones or vice versa.
How would I do that in firefox exactly?
Edit: Well, nevermind! Working perfectly today. So definitely something caused by youtube or comcast, since I certainly didn't fix it.
1988RedT2 wrote:BoxheadTim wrote: Which browser? Turn off Flash and see if it works, Youtube switched to HTML5 videos a while back, but I can't remember if it prefers those over the flash based ones or vice versa.How would I do that in firefox exactly?
Addons --> Plugins --> Set Shockwave Flash to Never Activate
GameboyRMH wrote:1988RedT2 wrote:Addons --> Plugins --> Set Shockwave Flash to Never ActivateBoxheadTim wrote: Which browser? Turn off Flash and see if it works, Youtube switched to HTML5 videos a while back, but I can't remember if it prefers those over the flash based ones or vice versa.How would I do that in firefox exactly?
Ah, thank you! I was poking around in Preferences --> Applications -->Shockwave Flash File
Today I connect to upload the Epic Footage and I see that Google decided to make all of the fonts smaller and bold. Why? Because berk you, being illegible is cool.
edit: Probably a bug in my browser. The wonky fonts are only when in Private Browsing. Berk YOU, Google, I'm not logging in to any of your services except in private mode.
Knurled wrote: Berk YOU, Google,
I too share this sentiment.
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