Youtube?

[jayce1066]

I'm getting inconsistent results with youtube. On some videos, I get this message: "Hello, you either have j*a*v*a*s*c*r*i*p*t turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player."
I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.11 and a flash player I reloaded earlier this week. I think it is 9.0.47.0. I'd done the complete remove of flash, rebooted and reinstalled Flash. j*a*v*a*s*c*r*i*p*t is turned on. I've shut down Firefox & cleared all cookies.
I only get this message on a few videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StbOPnGVC70 will not play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVVCT5WgWA&feature=user does play. They are both from warnerbrosrecords.
What should I try next?
(I had to put "*"s in the "J" word to get it to appear in my post)

 

[Reba67]

The first one says the video is unavailable (which could mean the user deleted it or made it private).

There's nothing wrong with the second one for me.

 

[SweetErika]

They both work fine for me, and I've had trouble with more than one site since I switched to Linux.

Have you tried them in IE? And double-checking your security, privacy and advanced settings in Firefox?

This may be stupid, but have you shut down your computer (not just restarted) since you installed the updates? Sometimes that works for me.

 

[mjl2010]

I didn't have any trouble. They played for me.

My big question about YouTube stuff: Is there anyway to increase the frame rate? Seems like everthing runs at about oh I dunno, 10 frames a second or something ridiculous like that.

MJL

 

[jayce1066]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have the same problem with IE. It'd make more sense if nothing played.
I'm finding alternate posts of the things that don't play.

 

[Bert Notorius]

Maybe your Java is broken.

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

 

[jayce1066]

Bert, I think you may have put me on the right track. Gonna work on this tomorrow.
Thanks.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Both work fine for me and I also use FF.

In your top menu bar, click "view", then mouse over "toolbars", then click "web developer toolbar"

This will enable a third row toolbar, the first button of which is "disable". Click "disable" to activate the drop down menu, mouse over "disable jav a script, then click (or unclick ) "all jav a script". When this last choice is checked, it disables all jav a script - no check mark and only the set restrictions from within the tools/options feature are active.

Give that a shot and see if it makes a difference in your viewing pleasure. Every once in a while I get a similar "you need to download the latest flash player" warning from various sites. I've learned that this usually means that my business partner has snuck into my office and used my computer - turning off java in the process without reactivating it when they leave.

 

[wickedchicken84]

This is a lengthy but good link to increasing the frame rate on flash videos, which is i think most of youtube.

http://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/142694.htm

as for MJL, your frame rate being so low, it could either be your video card (old or not powerful enough), or it could be one or more of these; RAM (memory), BUS (connection via motherboard), CPU, Teperature, File system (ntfs/ fat) or your hard drive. Any of those could cause you computer or videos to be slow. Read up on this link, very easy to read and understand, which will help you to speed up your computer.

http://www.easydesksoftware.com/speed.htm

of course, some of what would help might cost money, software and such that claims to speed up your computer. read those 2 first before buying anthing advertised anywhere.