Thread: Small hitch watching Youtube videos

No takers on this one?

Let's try another approach,

1. how do I determine which player is selected when playing a Youtube video?
2. How many players may I have?
3. I'm assuming there are two, can I disable one at a time to find the faulty one?

Ken

I do not use Windows 10 at this stage although I have always had the same problem in some video's on YouTube I just assumed it was the Status Quo

Youtube videos maybe all sorts of encoding. Which player displays them in a browser depends on many things including the browser you are using and the video players you have installed. Many youtube videos are now handled natively in browsers supporting html5. So as ever with any particular computer the answer is 'it depends'.

At a guess I would think it's most likely a streaming problem rather than a player problem. Your connection bandwidth may be too slow to keep up with the player or the bandwidth is being used up by something else at the same time. Recently Win10 has been doing some BIG updates. At the start of October all your win10 machines probably tried to download a 4gig OS update and since then there have been a number of big fix packs as well. This maxes out my bandwidth on occasion to the point I can't even browse normal sites.

If you play the same video several times does it always stall in the same places? If not I would think it is bandwidth. If they always stall at the same point, download that video and try playing it directly from your local harddrive. If the video still stalls at the same place it's probably the video and you might find if you right click on it and choose a different player it might work, depends sometimes on the player and the encoders.....

I had the same problem last night for the first time. I am using Win7, Firefox and a 4G wirless connection which was on 20 Mbps when it happened.

I've had problems with Win10 and IE trying to view YouTube video's. After much swearing I just downloaded Chrome and use that just to view YouTube videos - I think they are all owned by Google or some other conglomerate so they play nicely together and I can leave IE's settings alone.

As for breaks while watching there are a couple of things I think happen - your ISP may decide to limit access to certain popular sites - expect this to get worst if Trump & Co. remove 'Net Neutrality' provisions in the US - and YouTube keep trying to insert ads into their stream even if there is nothing to show - you see the little box with an 'x' in it appear every few minutes but it doesn't blank out your video.

What's really annoying me with this stop start issue is it only appeared a few weeks ago. Any other ideas on solving this glitch?

Have not installed anything new in ages. Is there a Youtube trouble solving site?

Ken

Try this:
right click in the speaker in the bottom task bar
select "playback devices"
select the speakers then properties
select advanced from the top menu
change from "studio quality" to "cd quality"
save and exit


Retry YouTube. If it doesn't works, just swap it back. Apparantly high quality audio streaming can cause hesitation in video playback.

Hi Lappa, your above suggestion did nothing. Do you know what the default setting was, I forgot to take note.

Ken

Start a video, any video will do and first check the picture quality, it is at the bottom right, the better the quality the more data has to be sent to your computer, hd means the most. Selecting 360 means the least data is being downloaded. After looking at that setting look at the progress bar(s) on the bottom, the light grey bar should be well ahead of the solid bar and if not the video will pause because it has not buffered enough to allow the computer to display the video without breaks.

Thanks Chris, I'll give your suggestion a try tomorrow and report back.

Ken

Originally Posted by neksmerj

Hi Lappa, your above suggestion did nothing. Do you know what the default setting was, I forgot to take note.

Ken

the default is "Studio Quality" - - mine is "Studio Quality, 24bit, 48000HZ

Chris, I think you hit the nail on the head, if I watch a video at 480, I don't seem to have a hitch problem. It seems the video dictates the setting automatically so just have to check it's at 480 or a little above.

Lappa, thanks for the heads up.

Ken