| Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | theGWOK | 8/13/11 7:37 PM | I don't know when this started happening, but the videos won't pre-buffer anymore, meaning that there is no red bar (now a grey-ish bar) that shows that the video is buffering. So when I try to skip ahead, it pauses to buffer, and when I try to go ba |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | thecolla78 | 8/20/11 4:44 AM | same issue. does anyone know if it is an youtube team choice? |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | vijil | 8/26/11 10:03 PM | I'm having the same problem. They seem to have changed the way videos load - probably something to do with stopping people from being able to save them to their computer? All it really means is that on anything other than a top end connection I am |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | hank mill | 8/27/11 5:25 PM | same issue here, it happens all the freaking time. I have a 20Mb connection and i have to stop and restart most videos i watch |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | pookoos | 9/6/11 1:38 PM | I am having the exact same issue. Not happy with this change at all. I have a decent connection, but it still pauses constantly, even on short vids. We should be allowed to pause and buffer. Period. I hope they change it back or fix it or whatever. |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | vijil | 9/6/11 1:48 PM | update - deleting the youtube cookie fixed it for me. |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | gpdemoura | 11/1/11 6:13 PM | I believe everyone is having the same problems and it is definitely a change that has made Youtube not so good anymore, I personally like to skip parts of movies and look for specific information, specially when watching DIY or review videos. Now is |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | EpikHater | 11/16/11 6:14 PM | I know this an old discussion, but this is really pissing me off. One second I can watch a video, the next time I try to watch it it won't buffer. It just pauses. I try refreshing, I try pausing and waiting, but nothing works. I can't listen to any o |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | rvkedar | 11/16/11 9:58 PM | From all answers to this query, it is evident that this has been deliberately done by Youtube. Will they please explain why? This is killing the hitherto viewing conveniece of Youtube videos. There HAS to be a logical reason behind this, which users |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | Skauber | 11/16/11 10:07 PM | This sucks! Great way to kill off a great service! It used to be great, but now its just annoying with the constant pausing and buffering. I used to be able to prebuffer what ever I wanted to watch, but it's just totally useless now. If this continu |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | Rich_Skater | 11/18/11 12:39 AM | I dealt with this for days. Running all over these forums thinking it was a simple setting I could toggle or something. Turns out my fix was pretty simple. Hope it helps someone. 99% of the time I use Firefox. Watching videos would yield no buffering |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | ultimateblader | 12/21/11 12:38 AM | buffer bar came back but just barely it stays in front of red bar so i guess they fixed it a little |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | ultimateblader | 12/21/11 12:40 AM | Edit never mind even ads buffer |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | Reldo | 12/22/11 4:44 PM | Delete your youtube cookies...worked immediately for me |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | SpiritSlayer | 12/23/11 6:39 AM | I found the solution! In another thread on the very same help forums too =)Basically, clear your cookies and cache. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=054b84069f2484fe&hl=en |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | titties | 1/17/12 7:00 PM | yes, it is the cookies, but make sure to look carefully at your delete history options. at the top of mine there is an option that when selected will actually preserve information instead of delete it. the box is pre-checked like the ones to delete |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | d12.south | 2/1/12 12:29 PM | This is a terrible viewing experience.. Youtube damaged the way we enjoy videos. I usually opened 10 youtube windows at once then pause the videos and go for lunch.. When I came back I had all the videos loaded and ready to play and forward or rewind |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | ytKARL | 2/1/12 12:58 PM | Be sure to check the stickied thread for the latest information on this. I'm going to redirect this thread to that one. |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | walterb1 | 5/8/12 1:28 PM | I have a slow connection at work. I used to buffer videos so I could watch the entire thing without the video constantly stopping, and making me wait. Now I cannot watch a video with constant stopping, and waiting. |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | Ivan McGillicuty | 6/27/12 1:26 AM | This "no pre-buffering format" that YouTube has switched to is a disgrace to the YouTube experience. It used to feel organic, real, not just another crappy branch of some big corporate web site. The people who signed off on this decision should be |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | AngryListener | 6/28/12 9:01 PM | I freaking hate how youtube works now. Tons of ads, no fast buffering, no options... and all it is, I'll bet, is a prelude to 'youtube+' where we pay them money and they give us what we had back. Mark my words. |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | Biggie.Berry | 7/9/12 9:48 PM | I do have one 'solution' to this problem that I will mention later in this comment, but just out of curiosity.. Out of everyone that has been posting to this forum discussion, how many of you are using Google Chrome as your browser? From what I have |
| Re: Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | SantiCx | 9/17/12 6:03 PM | Delete the cookies go to the setting on Chrome search Cookie go to content settings and then All cookies and site data and delte all of youtube cookies |
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| Why won't the Youtube videos pre-buffer anymore? | killerapp4077 | 1/17/13 8:05 PM | YouTube on my iPod never loads a buffer even when I have a 3 bar connection and I gave it about 20 minutes to load and when I came back nothing was different!!#:( |
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