Youtube.com Stops & Starts 3 times and displays error occured please try again later

[Abet Computers]

Okay, so I am having a little bit of a headache going on,

I have a Vista Dualcore system sitting here and I am having problems loading up youtube on IE10, & Mozilla Firefox 25.0 but not Google Chrome.

I open up each browser go to youtube.com and select a random video I press play and it will start an advertisement it will restart 3 times and then finish the ad, it will then load the video it will start and stop 3 times and error out.

So i quickly think its the cache so I wipe it using ccleaner, and manually as well just to verify everything is clean.

I try again and get same results.

I go to vevo, and vimeo and even worldstarhiphop.com and find that all the videos are playing fine. but just to be certain I then uninstall adobe flash and run the java uninstaller after its cleaned out I restart and reinstall them, restart again, just to be sure the updates are pushed through. I go to youtube again and bam same problem. the error says please wait 30 minutes it may be youtube, which is not the case because I had 3 other machines hooked up on the same line and all of them played just fine.

So I go and I download mozilla firefox and get the same error!! I install adblock plus and block all the garbage ads youtube has but still nothing.

Last resort I download and install google chrome ( I figured well google owns youtube it should work) and look what happens, it works like a charm.......................... hmmm IDK what the reason is but it will not work on the 2 other most popular browsers.

anyone have any suggestions????????


this is the 3rd time I have ran into this issue over the last 3 years

BTW on one of the machines that i worked on it was a fresh install and youtube did not work except in google chrome....

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

have you tried going to "chromelugins" in chrome and trying to disable the peppercorn flash or whatever and leave the other enabled assuming theres one there? then exiting out of chrome, reopening, go to youtube and see if problem occurs? Just for confirmation sake.

 

[NYJimbo]

Try checking to see what speed videos are defaulting to when you go to view youtube. We have been seeing a issue where it will default to the max speed and almost all views will fail after a few seconds. A few people have posted issues about this and I think I fixed mine by clearing out cookies, etc, via CCLEANER after doing a full reset/restore of advanced settings in IE.

 

[Abet Computers]

did, no change , i defaulted them down to 240 and same results

 

[Abet Computers]

oh and just to note, i downloaded safari, and opera just a few minutes ago and got the same result, still will only play on google chrome

 

[NYJimbo]

Well, if you haven't already do a ccleaner of :

"CLEANER" tab on left , "Windows" tab, "Internet Explorer" group all items and then under "Applications" tab, "Internet" group the "sun java" and then clean.

Of course you should also pick any other items in ccleaner you think might help.

Then reboot and try again.

 

[atlasmike]

I am having the same problem. It was a virus called ScorpionSaver. I got rid of the virus, and I got you tube to run in Chrome, but still the same effects you describe in your OP in IE.

 

[atlasmike]

OK, so it seems that when I plug in headphones the problem goes away. Runs just fine, audio is fine. Weird. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/961339

 

[Maniaman]

I made a post about the same issue a few months ago. Have seen many more computers with the issue, and still haven't come up with a solution other than using a different browser.

 

[atlasmike]

I made a post about the same issue a few months ago. Have seen many more computers with the issue, and still haven't come up with a solution other than using a different browser.

IE is requiring an audio device to be plugged in the computer. I plugged in headphones and all the symptoms went away. No more 3 restarts and errors in IE. I watched the Hunger Games Trailer.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

...didnt see that one coming, how about it abet?

 

[HCHTech]

I quick google search turned this problem up with Firefox as well. Weird - that's for sure.

From the "most helpful" post: Youtube now requires a sound device present to work correctly.

 

[Maniaman]

IE is requiring an audio device to be plugged in the computer. I plugged in headphones and all the symptoms went away. No more 3 restarts and errors in IE. I watched the Hunger Games Trailer.

Just tried it on one and that fixed it. Would have never guessed that.

 

[Simplify]

I see you already resolved your issue. I was going to suggest you try with headphones plugged in. I was having the same problem with my speakers plugged in but not headphones. Went through all the steps of testing other browsers and uninstalling and reinstalling.

The speakers I had plugged in were a decade old since I use headphones 99.9% of the time on this particular PC but decided to hook them up to hear something while not sitting at it. They worked on everything else so it was definitely confusing to run into.

 

[Abet Computers]

headphones worked - When I run the tests on the computer no audio is hooked up but Ill be damned it worked , but whats the reason for it how come it will only do this on a select few?


I plugged in my speakers and got it to work too, not just headphones

 

[NYJimbo]

Are these all desktops ???

 

[Abet Computers]

yes

 

[Tekguy]

I have a spare desktop computer with no speakers hooked up & it does the same thing with Youtube videos. This is using Firefox.