Can't play videos on Youtube, freezes after 2 seconds, only on that site

[airplaneman]

Hi there:

Hope you can help please. Out of nowhere (Never had any trouble prior) I can't watch any videos on Youtube. In exactly 2 seconds after the start of the video the screen freezes and will not let me forward it. If I go to the start the same thing happens.

No other site is giving me trouble:
Virus scan-perfect (Norton 2007)
Spyware scan-perfect
Ad-Aware scan- perfect

No temp files stored
no unwanted cookies

Plenty of disc space:
P4 3.06, 250GB, memory 1024 , only using 12 percent of alloteed space on hard-drive

Please help with any suggestions.

Thank you for your time,
Craig

[renegade600]

what media player are you using? do the whole computer freeze or just your browser? what browser?

[airplaneman]

Hi there:

Thanks for quick reply.

The default media player is Windows Media Player, the computer doesn't freeze, only the video on Youtube after exactly 2 seconds. All other functions and websites are fine. I contacted some people to try Youtube and they had no trouble tonight.

Thanks for any suggestions,
CF

[Morlock]

Youtube uses Flash so WMP is irrelevant. Go here and see which version you have:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

Update if necessary.

Otherwise, YT requires fairly high bandwidth, is it possible your bandwidth has dropped or been restricted? What does a speedtest result show?:
http://www.speedtest.net/

[airplaneman]

Hi Morlock:

The Flash Player is the latest, it worked fine until today. Never a problem. The speed test didn't say good or bad but gave this: 5816 kb/s download and upload 363 kb/s

I think we are all missing something more obvious. The change happened overnight and nothing was done on the computer. All other sites are fine. My own website for my book has video and it uploaded today fine and played perfectly. Any other ideas are greatly appreciated!

Thank you all so much,
CF

[renegade600]

download and run ccleaner so we will know exactly what is clean and it will get rid of all temporary files on your system

[Morlock]

You should have plenty of bandwidth, I find YT uses around 1000kb/s.

Personally, I would reinstall Flash, just to make sure, then try an alternative browser to eliminate that as well.

I presume you are using IE, try Firefox and see if the problem happens with both.