Youtube : movie format not Spported

Something very weird is happening on while watching Youtube on wi-fi. It goes like this
1. Search some topic - Works fine
2. Select a video for playing - works like a charm, even HD videos start play back almost immediately
3. Select another video - ERROR MESSAGE "MOVIE FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED"
4. SWITCH FROM WI-FI TO 3G - SAME VIDEO STARTS PLAYBACK WITHOUT A GLITCH
This happens for quite a few of the videos but not all.
Has someone experienced this ?
Please give some solution to this.
Some details
1. Apple IPhone 4 GSM
2. IOS 4.3.5
3. Internet connection speed - 10 Mbps, speed test results also shows the same.

I have gotten so sick and tired of not being able to see a lot of the flash videos in YouTube (desktop version) on my iPad 2 that I created a way around it on my website. Now all I have to do is paste the URL of any YouTube video that doesn't work into my search bar and it plays straight away with no lag or loss of quality.
http://www.joehankin.co.uk/video/

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