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RagnarokX

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #1

I don't know what's going on, but for the past couple of days if I try to watch a youtube video via the web browser, if an ad precedes the video the Wii U hardlocks. I googled and apparently this is happening to multiple people. It's very annoying.

Google turned up this reddit: https://pay.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/1lvnfm/youtube_ad_crashes_my_wii_u/

 

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ArchedThunder

Banned

• Sep 8, 2013

• #2

Huh, I haven't had this happen to me.

 

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Tripon

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #3

Happened to me a couple of times, with only one vid.

 

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abstract alien

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #4

I haven't had this happen yet. I'm in the clear for now.

My netflix app freeze like 60% of the time I try to boot it now though. If I can make it past the boot up, it works fine.

 

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ohlawd

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #5

Hasn't happened to me.

What is happening to me recently is losing my connection. Getting sick of it since I can't browse GAF properly ;_;

edit: just the Wii U. My 3DS and laptop retain their connection.

 

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FZZ

Banned

• Sep 8, 2013

• #6

This happens to me sometimes when I use HTML 5 for YouTube. It has happened on my Nexus 7 a couple of times.

 

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Mellahan

Concerned about dinosaur erection.

• Sep 8, 2013

• #7

No hardlocks on my end, but ads on the HTML5 YouTube LOOP. I can't even get to the video.

If I'm desperate, I'll just boot up the YouTube app. No problems there.

 

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RagnarokX

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #8

ohlawd said:

Hasn't happened to me.

What is happening to me recently is losing my connection. Getting sick of it since I can't browse GAF properly ;_;

edit: just the Wii U. My 3DS and laptop retain their connection.

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Manually enter your wireless settings.

Mellahan said:

No hardlocks on my end, but ads on the HTML5 YouTube LOOP. I can't even get to the video.

If I'm desperate, I'll just boot up the YouTube app. No problems there.

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Before I was having a similar problem. Sometimes an unskipable ad would make the video not load. Before this freezing problem the ads were refusing to show their visuals; they would just show a speaker symbol and play the audio.

 

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Gskyace

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #9

A picture I saw before, which is quite funny.
Now it's not true,youtube officially save Nintendo's concern.

(Ignore the watermark, I need to find a place to save it )

So Wii U's browser doesn't support HTML5 or just the ADs?

 

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Tripon

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #10

ohlawd said:

Hasn't happened to me.

What is happening to me recently is losing my connection. Getting sick of it since I can't browse GAF properly ;_;

edit: just the Wii U. My 3DS and laptop retain their connection.

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This was happening to me for a while. I had to manually reset my router a couple of times before the Wii U fixed itself.

This seems like a bug, and hopefully Nintendo patches it up.

 

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Tripon

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #11

Gskyace said:

A picture I saw before, which is quite funny.
Now it's not true,youtube officially save Nintendo's concern.

(Ignore the watermark, I need to find a place to save it )

So Wii U's browser doesn't support HTML5 or just the ADs?

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Wii U's browser only uses HTML5, and not flash, which is why youtube works well, but most other video players won't play.

Internet needs to move away from Flash as soon as possible, especially since Abode pretty much abandoned it already.

 

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efeman

Banned

• Sep 8, 2013

• #12

Tripon said:

Wii U's browser only uses HTML5, and not flash, which is why youtube works well, but most other video players won't play.

Internet needs to move away from Flash as soon as possible, especially since Abode pretty much abandoned it already.

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Let's run everything in Java.

 

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RagnarokX

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #13

Tripon said:

This was happening to me for a while. I had to manually reset my router a couple of times before the Wii U fixed itself.

This seems like a bug, and hopefully Nintendo patches it up.

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It might be youtube that needs to fix it.

 

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Goldenmoney

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #14

This happened to me once a couple days ago. Been working fine ever since though.

 

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Tripon

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #15

RagnarokX said:

It might be youtube that needs to fix it.

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That's a separate issue, I was responding to my Wii U dropping my wifi connection. For a while, it wasn't reading my SSID, and it took a couple of router restarts to fix it.

 

baphomet

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #16

Happens nearly every time I try and watch something. That's the only thing I've even been turning the console on for, and now it doesn't even work.

 

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RagnarokX

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #17

Tripon said:

That's a separate issue, I was responding to my Wii U dropping my wifi connection. For a while, it wasn't reading my SSID, and it took a couple of router restarts to fix it.

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I thought due to your spacing and use of "This" that you were changing to this topic. My mistake.

 

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Gskyace

Member

• Sep 8, 2013

• #18

Tripon said:

Wii U's browser only uses HTML5, and not flash, which is why youtube works well, but most other video players won't play.

Internet needs to move away from Flash as soon as possible, especially since Abode pretty much abandoned it already.

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Flash is always that evil.