Error Playing Movie

I have a new iphone that I bought and activated in the States. Im now located in China and will be here for a couple of months. When I go to YouTube on the main screen, the iphone takes me there. When I attempt to play any movie I get an error message of "Error Playing Movie".
I have a wifi connection where I live and I am able to access and play youtube vids on my laptop without any problems. I am connected to the same wifi on my iphone and it shows the little wave icon next to the China Mobile carrier name and is active...and I can surf the Internet.
In trying to troubleshoot, I also connected to Itunes and did a iphone restore. It didn't do anything.
Is there an official fix to this problem? Or is my iphone just broken? Anyone have any ideas....thanks!

From reading other sites and Googling around, it seems Google or PRC are blocking the videos from playing on iPhone in mainland China via wifi. Crazy, since you can view them on a laptop perfectly fine.
In Beijing, on my MacBook, I can view any YT video (at least since it was unblocked by the government not so long ago). Now, when I share my ethernet connection via Airport and connect my iPhone via wifi, it can browse YT.app videos, search, see Top Rated, etc. but attempting to play always results in the "Error playing movie" message. Really stupid since the connection is the exact same - my iPhone online via my MacBook.
People have suggested the videos are incompatible as YT are updating the videos to H.264 but that's definitely not the case, they're simply being blocked - absolutely none work for me. When I was in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, it was not an issue.
I tried NetShade (a proxy program) which can get around some of China's blocking but not this YT on iPhone.
By the way, could you point me to the China Mobile EDGE settings?
Regards,
spriter

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