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    Highly Evolved Orangutan JKL2000's Avatar
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    YouTube issue

    This isn't really a PE question, but since it affects my watching the posted YouTube clips on PE, as well as watching clips directly on YouTube, I thought I might ask here. As of a couple of weeks ago, I get really mixed results when trying to watch YT videos. Some work, some don't. Before this I had no problems. But I can't discern any obvious difference between the ones I can watch and ones where I get an error. The error is the "snow" screen and a message like Video is unavailable, please try again later. The weird thing is that there's at least one artist where I can view all her videos, even though they're posted by various people, so it's not like they'd all have the same settings.

    Anyway, I know there are lots of threads all over the internet about people having issues watching YT videos, but I just I'd ask here in case anyone else had seen similar issues where some videos work and some don't. At home I have no problems, so that makes it seem like it could be a firewall issue at work, but since some videos work, I'd think there's no firewall issue between work and YT. Help!

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    If you use firefox, you could search for html5 plugin, it installs without you have to restart. This should come preinstalled with the google browser.
    It solved a similar problem I had om some other news site. https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefo...-html5-player/

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    Or de-install and re-install Flash.

    BTW - try the same thing in a different browser. The results could be diagnostic, one way or the other.
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    Duncan

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    Highly Evolved Orangutan JKL2000's Avatar
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    Hey, YouTube (free YouTube that is) now allows you (on iOS, at least) to keep playing a video in a Picture-in-Picture mode after you leave the app! This is a major improvement!!

    You can also minimize the window, which is good. Unfortunately, it still stops playing when your screen goes black.

    When minized, it seems to stop playing after a little while, not sure why…

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    They did that several months ago. It was premium feature.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EdWiser View Post
    They did that several months ago. It was premium feature.
    I know it was a premium feature, but do you mean they added it to the free YouTube app for iOS several months ago?

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    Oh, it's for non-music videos only that article says. Maybe that's why I hadn't noticed it.

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    YouTube issue

    It is for any videos now.

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    ^ Thanks - good! I wonder if they just completed the rollout (or it's still ongoing)? We have a family account, and not only I but my son as well only noticed the P-i-P feature in the iOS app the other day. And I use it constantly! Mysterious...

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    It has been a year since it rolled out. But yes it is available to all now.

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