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Youtube videos randomly won't load

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I recently got a new modem, and ever since then I've noticed YouTube videos will randomly stop loading (particularly longer ones, although I have had short videos stop loading too). Switching to HTML5 video player seems to let me play videos without having any loading issues.


- I've tried resetting my router.

- Reinstalling Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125

- Clearing my recent history

- Flushing my dns

- Turning DASH playback off

- I've tried posting on Adobe Flash Player and Youtube forums for help but nobody replied

- It's been happening for over 2 months now.

- Videos seem to load fine on Chrome

I'm not really sure what else to do, I'm assuming it has something to do with my new modem, but I have no idea how to fix this.

I'll be using Chrome until I find a solution to this.

I recently got a new modem, and ever since then I've noticed YouTube videos will randomly stop loading (particularly longer ones, although I have had short videos stop loading too). Switching to HTML5 video player seems to let me play videos without having any loading issues. - I've tried resetting my router. - Reinstalling Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125 - Clearing my recent history - Flushing my dns - Turning DASH playback off - I've tried posting on Adobe Flash Player and Youtube forums for help but nobody replied - It's been happening for over 2 months now. - Videos seem to load fine on Chrome I'm not really sure what else to do, I'm assuming it has something to do with my new modem, but I have no idea how to fix this. I'll be using Chrome until I find a solution to this.

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Hello.

Someone with the same issue got a reply here. If you have any further questions, send me a private message.

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I'll give it a try and test it to see if it works

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I tried all the instructions suggested in the link, but youtube videos still randomly stop buffering.

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Still have a problem if anyone's able to help

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it apears to be the flash player ....

and how do you change the setting of youtube to html5 ? cheers

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Try Firefox without hardware acceleration is that makes any difference. Click Tools / Options or click menu button in browser then Options. Then Advanced / General.Remove the tick for hardware acceleration where available.

Flash also has hard acceleration,right click on any flash video. Select settings,disable the hardware acceleration option & see if this helps or not.

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thank you Cor-el ;)