Is it just me, or has YouTube changed their player again? Seems like the one being used on new videos doesn't allow any selection of resolution and seems to default to HD sizes. So on my pathetic broadband connection all new videos now take an absolute age to load.
Also, the damn thing has a habit of only loading half a video!
When I tried yesterday, it all looked normal to me. I couldn't play in HD of course, my connection's far too slow, but I could click the HD icon and get it back to SD, then it played just fine.
Works as normal here OSX (Safari) and Win XP (Chrome).
When I tried yesterday, it all looked normal to me. I couldn't play in HD of course, my connection's far too slow, but I could click the HD icon and get it back to SD, then it played just fine.
It depends what video you are looking at. A lot of the really new ones use the new player. Theres no resolution selection. It only seems to have come in in the last few days.
Eg this one (I know this particular video isn't HD, but the same player appears on other HD videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXcydOjALkI&feature=channel_video_title
[edit]Just checked in Firefox, seems to be a Safari thing! Though some videos do it, and others don't!
Simon, that video works fine for me (safari, Snow Leopard), with resolution options from 240p right up to 1080p. Are you simply not being given those options or are they disabled for you? It might be your Youtube prefs have been screwed up, a bit like the 'missing' threads issue some of us have encountered here when using safari. D
That plays for about 4 seconds then the video freezes and doesn't come back. The audio continues to play. This is on Firefox and I am offered only 360p. That makes the clip totally unplayable as far as I'm concerned.
Plays OK on my mac pro system running safari and snow leopard!
That plays for about 4 seconds then the video freezes and doesn't come back.
Interesting that you say that Alan, as that is another problem I am having constantly with YouTube at the moment.
Are you simply not being given those options or are they disabled for you?
The options aren't there. It's a completely different player skin to the one that offers resolution selection.
As you can see the volume control is in a different place, and there is just a "full screen" selection.
In OS X Lion (though also does this on my version of Snow Leopard), Safari.
In OS X Lion, Firefox.
There has been quite a succession of Adobe Flash Player updates recently. It might be worth checking you have the latest version?
I notice your post re: DV info site problems too.
Could be a cookie, IP address or perhaps ISP related issue. Have you got any sort of filtering or ad-blocking type software installed (or any sort of ISP safe browsing/security scheme)?
Looks like an HTML5 vs Flash thing to me. Check plug-ins on safari and see if you have a flash or HTML5 preference too. D
PS
I had a thing recently where safari was defaulting to DIVx player instead of QT and it crashed the browser every time, even accessing video on the apple website. Took me ages to sort it out!
Ahaaaa! Somehow (I don't remember installing it!) there was an extension in Safari that changed the YouTube player to HTML5!
Why can't things be simple?
Because Mr Jobs wanted you to do it his way ...