Why do I have trouble playing youtube videos?

Most of the time when I attempt to watch a youtube video, it either loads very slowly, or not at all. I do not have trouble watching videos on any other site. I've got a brand new MacBook Pro running 10.7.4, 2.9 ghz, 8 gb memory. The current download speed of my wireless network is 16 gb/sec. Could someone please advise?

Linc and tori29, thanks for your input, and no, I do not encounter the "currently unavailable" message.

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I have tried turning on and off my phone, pressing alt+enter+del, and doing the battery pull. None of those methods have worked.
Has anyone had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it? Ive pretty much have tried everything i could think of and none of the forums seems to have a solution.
Is the phone the problem or is youtube?
If you know of the solution, your help will be greatly appreciated.

Hello hashbrown602,
The following post by Cory from the Inside BlackBerry Help Blog outlines a few steps you can try to successfully play videos from YouTube.
http://helpblog.blackberry.com/2011/03/watch-youtube-on-blackberry/
If you still have issues after going through each of the steps, you may want to contact your wireless service provider to check your data plan settings.
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While playing YouTube videos (or other streaming videos) in Safari
using both Snow Leopard and Lion, the video's stutter and stop.
When I use the Google Chrome browser, the videos play perfectly.
I can find no way to set the buffering values.
I don't feel that this is a hardware or network problem.
This is very annoying, Apple please fix this.
An example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Yfbchq0xQmQ&vq=medium#t=

You posted in the correct forum... Most YouTube content requires the Flash plugin. Try troubleshooting.
Quit Safari.
Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Storage tab. Click: Delete All
Now uninstall the Flash plugin then reinstall new > Troubleshoot Flash Player | Mac OS'
Very important to uninstall the currently installed Flash plugin first before reinstalling.
Launch Safari From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Empty Cache
Now try a video.
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And check to see if Safari is running in 32 bit mode. Right or control click the Safari icon in your Applications folder then click Get Info. If the box next to: Open in 32 bit mode is selected, deselect, quit then relaunch Safari.
BTW, this is not an Apple issue. Flash is third party software for which Apple is not responsible for developing or updating. That's Adobe's job.
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Why won't my macbook play youtube videos???

So just as of recently my computer has been acting kind of silly where it wont play any of the youtube videos
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Also, where you live is a consideration. I live in East Africa, and due to the servers in the surrounding areas, I had to subscribe to a VPN as well as make sure I had the right plugins.

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Quite suddenly I cannot play any YouTube clips. I have followed all the online advice, uninstalled and re-installed (it says it was successful) but nothing has helped. I am not at all technical, but after two hours going round in circles, I am desperate for some advice

What do you see for your Flash Player version, OS, and browser info?
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
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Why won't my macbook pro play youtube videos?

Why wont my macbook pro play youtube videos????
I bought this over the summer and it's now Nov 28th. I've had it with this thing and nobody is answering my question! Please help!
I reset safari, emptied my cache, cleared my history, uninstalled and re-installed flash player and nothing has helped. In fact, un/reinstalling flash player worsened the problem. And I cannot update it becuase it says "not recognized".
I do have avast anti-virus: but I can't fix the warnings in it (after I scan, some warnings popup and it wont let me fix it and I have no idea where to find it in the computer itself). Does this have anything to do with it? I need virus protection, so I dont want to get rid of it.
I do not have the money to buy firefox (and it's never worked for me ever anyways).
I know it's not my internet because my dad's pc works great and my sister's mac (for school) loads youtube videos instantly.
I also have this annoying issue where every page on the interned needs to be reloaded three times before itll load the first time. It sits there for five minutes and does nothing, then I reload the page and BAM its loaded: EXCEPT YOUTUBE.
For a $1400 machine, I'd like to know what and why this is happening.

mariposasss wrote:
Why wont my macbook pro play youtube videos????
Perhaps there is something wrong with your software and/or a corrupt cache file outside of the browser.
I reset safari, emptied my cache, cleared my history, uninstalled and re-installed flash player and nothing has helped. In fact, un/reinstalling flash player worsened the problem. And I cannot update it because it says "not recognized".
Hmm hard to tell what's causing this. May have to do a process of elimination to cure everything on the machine.
I do have avast anti-virus: but I can't fix the warnings in it (after I scan, some warnings popup and it wont let me fix it and I have no idea where to find it in the computer itself). Does this have anything to do with it? I need virus protection, so I dont want to get rid of it.
Uninstall the anti-virus, they always cause issues on Mac's.
You say you need anti-virus, so install the free ClamXav, it's a program you run as you need it, because 99% of the malware out there is for Windows and won't run on a Mac, thus you can just run ClamXav when you need it on where you need it. Won't bugger up the machine.
I do not have the money to buy firefox (and it's never worked for me ever anyways).
Firefox is a free web browser by the open source community, it's very powerful and highly customizable with more add-ons, extensions, personas, themes than any other browser. Some things can be done on Firefox can't be done on any other browser at all. Certainly for someone who is a bit more seasoned to use it fully.
I know it's not my internet because my dad's pc works great and my sister's mac (for school) loads youtube videos instantly.
I also have this annoying issue where every page on the interned needs to be reloaded three times before itll load the first time. It sits there for five minutes and does nothing, then I reload the page and BAM its loaded: EXCEPT YOUTUBE.
For a $1400 machine, I'd like to know what and why this is happening.
You mentioned your "dad" and you've mentioned a delay loading pages and not YouTube at all.
Are you by any chance the Administrator of the computer? Can you install Firefox if you wanted too just as a experiment or does it ask for a Admin name and password and you can't provide it?
"Nannyware" has the ability to block sites and slow down page draws as it's consulting with the nannyware company if that site is suitable to be loaded on your machine.
If your are the Admin of the machine, then your going to have to methodically go through the fix it list I've generated here to resolve your issue as I cant' tell what's causing your problem specifically behind a screen.
If it's too much for you, take the machine to a local Mac/PC software repair shop and they can fix you up.
I suspect by #12 your machine will be fixed.
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'''''Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.'''''
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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Hi Mohan_111
Thank you for posting and welcome to Nokia forum!
Things to try:
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Restart your phone
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For some clearing YouTube cookies and the cache solved the problem. For details of how to do that see https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Deleting+cookies and https://support.mozilla.com/kb/How+to+clear+the+cache
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