Hoping someone can help me with this. When I try to watch and listen to a You Tube video, I'm having problems. The video runs very slow and the sounds is choppy. To watch a 1 minute video takes me forever. I am running Windows XP and have no idea what I need to check that might be causing this to happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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You Tube Problem
- Thread starter Jazzy
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It might be because you have to many window's open
Happened to me once and I discovered that it was because I had another internet page loading as I was watching the video. You could try to let it load first and make sure that you have no other internet pages loading as you are watching it. Might work
Thank you for your reply Dragon. I have nothing else loading at the time. For example: I was trying to play and listen to a video Sci had made here on Off Topix. The video starts, stops, starts, stops and the sound is all chopped up.
Sometimes, it is internet connection problem. The speed might slow down after it runs for few days.
maybe too exhausted. Usually, I restarted my DSL/Cable or anything you use..might solve the problem.
maybe too exhausted. Usually, I restarted my DSL/Cable or anything you use..might solve the problem.
Jazzy said:Makes sense since I'm on a dial up connection. They don't offer DSL/Cable where I'm located.
Is Satellite or 4G available in your area (or do you really live that far in the boonies)? Just a thought.
Even though you have a speed listed, that's a maximum download speed, and sometimes the connection, gets 'clogged' up. Also, you have to connect to a common domain, before you actually get to the video (hence the whole buffering process) - you haven't cited an issue like this before (this is a recent issue, and a not and on-going one, right?), so it can sometimes be that Youtube.com gets hit with too many user requests at once and needs to slow people down and put them in a line. Hardly ever happens for big corporations, but it can certainly happen.
There's also the possibility it could be a local problem. If this just started up - your hard drive space could be getting precariously full, and thus your entire computer starts to slow down, because it is running out of virtual memory. If you have the hard drive space, crank that [virtual memory] as high as you can, so that it won't be a typical worry.
The last things I can't think of right now are the PITA things - you could have a hardware issue that is causing it...in that case you're on the one-way path to being outta' luck. You could also have Spyware/Viruses that are running in the background that any Anti-Virus programme might not be able to detect or clean. You could have a logger that is basically an unknown/unauthorised network connection that downloads everything you do, and so it could have been trying to download the video concurrently and thus cutting your connection in half or worse.
(A few other things - perhaps a driver or auto-update thing was going on, and if it was downloading something in the background, (particularly a large file) that could slow your connection down and might be hard to see. I don't know of any XP updates that are really large, but then again, the last set of updates I downloaded were in the realm of 20+ MB, and thus on dial-up take significantly longer.)
Lastly (yeah, I know, I said this a couple of paragraphs ago), ol' Tron could just be getting a little old - my PC (an old laptop that I cherish escapes to, so I don't have to use my Mac). If you right-click on My Computer, click Properties, you should have a window that pops up saying System - it should give you the basic specs on your PC - if you're still having trouble, you can post those (processor speed/class; RAM, etc.)
Hope you're able to work it out!
