youtube is being a lovely lady

[themadhacker]

as of lately I can watch videos, but then I click on one and it just shows a black screen and I can wait forever and it won't buffer or do anything at all. then every video I click after that does the same thing. so I go off and come on later and it's fixed then it happens again. well it happened last night and I went back on today and it's still *Can'tSayThisOnTV*ed up. so why is youtube doing this? anybody else have these problems?

 

[βeta]

Quit your browser, go back to the same page, and it will be fine.

 

[bic]

What else is new?

Click the Play button. That always solves the problem for me.

 

[J.D]

YouTube IS a lovely lady. Has been for almost a year now.

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

ever since google took over I've always had some sort of issue.

 

[Zero]

Works perfectly fine for me.

 

[XCVG]

Youtube is evil. I came to that conclusion quite a while ago. They're even starting to put ads before videos.

 

[PalmerTech]

Oh wow, how evil! Never mind the fact that most of the revenue from those ads go to the people who uploaded the video, and those people CHOSE to have ads before their videos.

 

[themadhacker]

@ bic:

the play button isn't even there when I'm having these problems. no silver menu bar at all. just a black rectangle where the video and bar should be

 

[bic]

Are you running the latest version of Flash Player?

Try completely uninstalling Flash Player with this tool, then reinstall it and see what happens:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html