Issue with embeded YouTube videos

[zux]

Hi there. I'm having a strange issue each time I get embeded Youtube video in any of EB threads. There are actually several issues, but all are related to youtube videos:

1. playing video directly from thread, but it stops in like 15 seconds, with no further progress

2. playing video directly from thread, everything looks fine, until you try to click any Youtube player button or simply move a mouse

3. clicking to watch video on Youtube.com where it works fine. However when I return back to thread which had the video embeded - it crashes and automatically reloads the video space, not the whole webpage.

It looks like something has changed in EB forum during past 2-3 weeks, as I didn't have such issue before, and it is the only webpage having such problem. Another moment is that all Youtube videos in EB have glossy player look, rather than plain on any other webpage (it used to be plain on EB too).

I know I'm using a fancy setup (Linux + Opera) which is poorly supported and I would live with this, but it used to work properly...

Wonder if I'm the only one with such an issue and if this can be fixed somehow.

[pbat]

1. sounds like a caching issue. Maybe your ISP doesn't connect well to this particular Youtube server. Have you tried using a proxy to test it?

Unsure what 2. and 3. might be. Test it with another browser like Chrome or Firefox: If it works there, it's an Opera issue. By the way: Do you still watch Youtube with Flash or do you use HTML5 instead? If Flash is used, try to toggle the hardware acceleration (if it's on, switch it off, if it's currently off, switch it on) and see if it makes any difference. Also check if other extensions like video downloaders might interfere or disturb the flash plugin. Try to force Youtube to use HTML5 via http://www.youtube.com/html5 or by disabling the Flash Plugin in Opera and check if it makes any difference. Check if Opera identifies itself as another browser and if so switch it to "Identify as Opera". Sometimes it might help to clear the cache / history and / or to use a fresh profile. But I'm virtually guessing now and have no idea, what actually goes wrong on your system.

However, if other sites become affected, too, it might be a good idea to post that topic on sites like http://askubuntu.com (if you use Ubuntu) or http://productforums...#!forum/youtube .

[zux]

After quite a lot of different approaches with my current browser (Opera) it look slike issue is gone. Thanks, pbat, for idea to clear all of the cache.