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Youtube videos won't play

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by bredekamp, Apr 6, 2008.

  1. bredekamp

    bredekamp Member

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    Recently discussions have started going around on the Internet about youtube videos that mysteriously wont play. I've checked with browsers on PC and MAC using the latest versions of Adobe Flash Player. Same problem on both computers. I did some testing.

    Out of 25 videos tested only 12 played. The rest just hangs with the little circle going round and round. When a video loads, look at the bottom left of your screen it'll say which server the video is streaming from:

    Servers that worked:
    lax-v7.lax
    lax-v171.lax
    sjc-v44.sjc
    ash-v275.ash
    ash-v92.ash
    lax-v198.lax
    lax-v216.lax
    mia-v84.mia
    ash-v239.ash
    lax-v37.lax
    lax-v231.lax
    ash-v108.ash

    Servers who didn't work:
    ash-v156.ash
    lax-v267.lax
    ash-v136.ash
    ash-v137.ash
    ash-v190.ash
    ash-v184.ash
    lax-v296.lax
    lax-v180.lax
    lax-v304.lax
    lax-v276.lax
    ash-v216.ash
    ash-v116.ash
    lax-v184.lax

    I ask anyone who comes across a working or non-working youtube video to post the name of the server it is being streamed from here. Remember to look at the status bar of your browser. I need to see if the same servers always give the same problem.