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Tripon · Sep 12, 2013

So it looks like Youtube updated their website again, and now, my gamepad freezes and hard locks after they play their required 30 second ad. Meaning, I get to see the ad, and not the original video I did want to watch. Come on Youtube, you need to code better than this.

Anyone else having issues?

Kyzon · Sep 12, 2013

They want you to use that shitty app.

NotLiquid · Sep 12, 2013

Yup, I got the exact same thing yesterday. That said it seems like it got fixed for me today.

Kangi · Sep 12, 2013

Only problem I've had is that Motorola ad that instantly locks up my Wii U when it loads.

PotionBleue · Sep 12, 2013

Try cleaning the cache, it's hidden somewhere in the browser settings.

hwy_61 · Sep 12, 2013

Don't know if you've tries this, but try closing any tabs you have from a previous session. Do it as soon as you open the browser, though. That worked for me.

Gattuso · Sep 12, 2013

I just tried and i couldn't even load an ad, it just froze the wii u shortly after tapping play for me.
Edit:

hwy_61 said:
Don't know if you've tries this, but try closing any tabs you have from a previous session. Do it as soon as you open the browser, though. That worked for me.

that fixed it for me.

PureGone · Sep 12, 2013

Wii U doesn't support YouTube confirmed? Get on it Inside Gaming Machinima.

MKUltra · Sep 12, 2013

I also had this yesterday, I narrowed it down to only being videos that had ads on them, seems to be working now though.

BrokenEchelon · Sep 12, 2013

Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

Interceptor · Sep 12, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

The sad thing is, i am not sure if this is meant sarcastic or not. The Wii U had the best Youtube implemention of almost every device out there.

NotLiquid · Sep 12, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

The irony is Wii U probably has the best web browser of the current consoles available and is the best at viewing YouTube videos outside shitty apps.

foxuzamaki · Sep 12, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

please, if you dont know what your talking about, then dont comment in the thread.

cyberheater · Sep 12, 2013

NotLiquid said:
The irony is Wii U probably has the best web browser of the current consoles available

Probably?

Not even close. It's the best console browser by a long long way and fast as fuck.

PureGone · Sep 12, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

Exactly.

Fandangox · Sep 12, 2013

When this always happens getting them "embed" link seems to be a neat temporal fix.

zruben · Sep 12, 2013

oh, glad it's a common problem, I thought my wiiU decided to get weird.

the "close tabs" trick didn't work for me,... did anyone found another solution?

ZeroGravity · Sep 12, 2013

This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

Reg · Sep 12, 2013

ZeroGravity said:
This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

Yep. Been like that for me for the past few days.

shadyspace · Sep 12, 2013

ZeroGravity said:
This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

Yup same here

Interceptor · Sep 12, 2013

ZeroGravity said:
This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

PCs are only for spreadsheets and not for streaming services of the 21st century.Oh wait, that doesn´t make any sense. But it was a cool comment huh? HUH?

jmls1121 · Sep 12, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

You have no idead what you are talking about and sound ridiculously foolish. Sit the next few plays out, champ.

Xedah66 · Sep 12, 2013

Happened to me yesterday. I noticed it was only freezing on the ads. How does an ad freeze the wii u?

I'M FINISHED! · Sep 12, 2013

Youtube beta is such a cool website.

Baroquemantic · Sep 12, 2013

Is it because they changed it to this?

Or is this (video player change) completely unrelated?

I'M FINISHED! · Sep 12, 2013

Such a stupid change. Youtube needs to grow up already.

AcademicSaucer · Sep 12, 2013

So is the youtube app for 3ds coming after mother 4 or half life 3 ?

Kangi · Sep 12, 2013

ZeroGravity said:
This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

YouTube is literally the only reason I have adblock. If I could enable it on the Wii U, I would.

Koozek · Sep 12, 2013

Had videos not playing/blackscreens on my PC, too, today. But only for, like, half an hour and now the fullscreen/annotations/etc. settings are all merged into one single settings button. At least for me. Maybe they're some beta changes or something.

jimi_dini · Sep 12, 2013

Kangi said:
YouTube is literally the only reason I have adblock. If I could enable it on the Wii U, I would.

There should be AdBlock - the proxy server. Then it would work with Wii U.

It's fascinating - at work, youtube plays the ads perfectly, but all videos afterwards play first 5 seconds only and then they stop. :/

fred · Sep 12, 2013

Aw bum, you mean we see adverts on YouTube using the Wii U browser now..? They used to be ad-free for some reason a while back.

(

Jaded Alyx · Sep 12, 2013

PureGone said:
Exactly.

Try harder.

Kangi · Sep 12, 2013

jimi_dini said:
It's fascinating - at work, youtube plays the ads perfectly, but all videos afterwards play first 5 seconds only and then they stop. :/

For my PC, the videos will usually make it to ten seconds then randomly stop, or make it to fifteen seconds and suddenly drop the quality automatically. Youtube videos run so smooth on my Wii U (and the functionality where you can place the video on your television then browse other things is amazing), but there's always that one particular ad that hard locks the console.

Interceptor · Sep 12, 2013

Youtube was really strange the last weeks. It reloads when you forward to an already loaded part, a change to HD takes longer than the actual video and only prominent content loads really fast. Feels like 2007 again, not like it is run by motherfucking google.

Zoramon089 · Sep 13, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

Literally the most ignorant post in this thread

Mr-Joker · Sep 13, 2013

Guys you can skips the ad on the Wii U browser if you just skipped to the end and it will act as if the ad had been played.

nsnsmj said:
Is it because they changed it to this?

Or is this (video player change) completely unrelated?

Youtube sure love hiding their option in a drop down menu.

one_kill · Sep 13, 2013

nsnsmj said:
Is it because they changed it to this?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60582924/Screenshots/Random/new youtube player.jpg
Or is this (video player change) completely unrelated?

Such a stupid change! What was wrong with the one before?

TDLink · Sep 13, 2013

My YouTube isn't working right now...on my PC.

ElectricKaibutsu · Sep 13, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Nintendo consoles are strictly for playing Nintendo games.

Leaving media streaming to devices made for the 21st century.

PureGone said:
Exactly.

There's two of you guys?

The Wii U has it's flaws but it's by far the best way to watch YouTube on your TV. It will continue to be after the new HD twins release.

ZeroGravity · Sep 13, 2013

one_kill said:
Such a stupid change! What was wrong with the one before?

Nothing, but web developers have to justify their existence somehow.

shadyspace · Sep 13, 2013

ElectricKaibutsu said:
There's two of you guys?

The Wii U has it's flaws but it's by far the best way to watch YouTube on your TV. It will continue to be after the new HD twins release.

Yeah I don't know beaming youtube videos to my ps3 from my laptop phone or table is pretty freakin great

Dead Prince · Sep 13, 2013

ZeroGravity said:
This isn't exclusive to the Wii U browser. Even on my PC, YouTube videos have been fucking up all day and refusing to play beyond the ad most of the time.

my work pc would hard lock when a youtube page tries to load. yet at home it plays fine.

don't really know why.

EDIT; wait. they changed their player too? wasn't like that a few hours ago.

Gintoki313 · Sep 13, 2013

While my Youtube does work, the comment section doesn't. For some reason the comment section doesn't appear due to loading (which the loading never ends so it doesn't load anything anyways). I usually have to refresh the page for the comments to appear, but by that time I don't want to read the comments in a video if I have to refresh a whole page to do so.

I'm on the PC.

Kangi · Sep 13, 2013

Gintoki313 said:
While my Youtube does work, the comment section doesn't. For some reason the comment section doesn't appear due to loading (which the loading never ends so it doesn't load anything anyways). I usually have to refresh the page for the comments to appear, but by that time I don't want to read the comments in a video if I have to refresh a whole page to do so.

I'm on the PC.

I think Youtube is doing you a favor by not loading the comments.

Foshy · Sep 13, 2013

ElectricKaibutsu said:
There's two of you guys?

The Wii U has it's flaws but it's by far the best way to watch YouTube on your TV. It will continue to be after the new HD twins release.

Now that's kinda ignorant. You have no way of knowing that.

Orbis · Sep 13, 2013

Interceptor said:
Youtube was really strange the last weeks. It reloads when you forward to an already loaded part, a change to HD takes longer than the actual video and only prominent content loads really fast. Feels like 2007 again, not like it is run by motherfucking google.

The main reason for these changes is probably to reduce load on their servers. The old method seems to have been to cache the whole video at somewhat unrestricted speeds; on a fast connection you could cache a whole video in seconds and then freely jump to different parts of the video without needing to buffer again. On a slow connection that meant you could just pause and come back later to watch the whole video without your crappy connection causing it to buffer constantly. Now it pretty much streams the video with what seems like a capped buffer or at least capped download speed and thus individual users use less bandwidth at any given moment. The 'already loaded' parts seem to be completely inaccurate at best.

And I can also confirm that Youtube has been very bad today on my PC; volume slider is broken on most videos for me and they've been changing the way the settings are laid out, on and off. Some videos go black after the adverts and then refuse to play without clearing the cache. This is using Chrome.

Interceptor · Sep 13, 2013

Foshy said:
Now that's kinda ignorant. You have no way of knowing that.

How would you watch a video while searching for another

with analog sticks

? Or how would you watch a video while browsing gaf? Simply not possible.

ElectricKaibutsu · Sep 13, 2013

shadyspace said:
Yeah I don't know beaming youtube videos to my ps3 from my laptop phone or table is pretty freakin great

Oh really? Didn't know you could do that

Edit: I'd still have to see it in action. I couldn't imagine it being as seamless.

Ricerocket · Sep 13, 2013

ElectricKaibutsu said:
Oh really? Didn't know you could do that

Yes, you can beam any youtube videos from an iphone to the PS3 without touching the controller.

Jaded Alyx · Sep 13, 2013

shadyspace said:
Yeah I don't know beaming youtube videos to my ps3 from my laptop phone or table is pretty freakin great

I don't really see how that's better to be honest. But I've never tried it.

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