YouTube and my Mac...

[n11/n12]

I haven't been able to go on to YouTube for a few days now. I'll go to the site, or any link within, and I'm just spat right out. Safari will always shut down saying it's "unexpectedly quit." Embedded vids seem to be fine, though.

BTW I have a Mac 10.3.9

Anyone know why or what I can do?

Here's the strange thing. I also have the Mac Internet Explorer, it can on to the site but everything on the front page looks mangled and disorderd, and it can't play the vids either, saying I don't have the latest Adobe flash player. I actually did just an hour ago, and that hasn't helped either one.

Again, what he heck is up?

[tsg]

Try reinstalling Windows.




I'm sorry. It's a reflex.

[Almo]

I haven't been able to go on to YouTube for a few days now. I'll go to the site, or any link within, and I'm just spat right out. Safari will always shut down saying it's "unexpectedly quit." Embedded vids seem to be fine, though.

BTW I have a Mac 10.3.9

Anyone know why or what I can do?

Here's the strange thing. I also have the Mac Internet Explorer, it can on to the site but everything on the front page looks mangled and disorderd, and it can't play the vids either, saying I don't have the latest Adobe flash player. I actually did just an hour ago, and that hasn't helped either one.

Again, what he heck is up?

I don't have much to add, except that when Safari doesn't work, try firefox. If that doesn't work, try opera. If that doesn't work, bitch at the admins to make their site work with a real browser.

[Ian Osborne]

Have you tried repairing your permissions? That's always the first thing you do in OS X. It sounds like Flash is crashing, so this may be a viable solution.

[brodski]

Again, what he heck is up?

Get a PC.

:p

[BenBurch]

reinstall adobe flash.

[mrich]

If reinstalling Flash doesn't help, this problem might go away with an upgrade to OSX 10.4 or higher.

If not, one interim solution would be to use a program like Tooble (tooble dot com), which takes in the URL of some YouTube movie, pulls it down and converts it to QuickTime for you. Tooble requires OSX 10.4, though.

[coalesce]

If reinstalling Flash doesn't help, this problem might go away with an upgrade to OSX 10.4 or higher.

If not, one interim solution would be to use a program like Tooble (tooble dot com), which takes in the URL of some YouTube movie, pulls it down and converts it to QuickTime for you. Tooble requires OSX 10.4, though.

Does that work only with Flash movies posted on YouTube?

Michael

[mrich]

Does that work only with Flash movies posted on YouTube?

Michael


The Tooble website (tooble dot tv) states: "Tooble lets you browse, search and download any video from YouTube and put it on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. You can also save them to watch on your computer."

Hopefully, "any video from YouTube" means both the original H.263 format YouTube used initially and the newer H.264 format they have been using since June 2007.

I've only tried converting one movie onto my Mac so far, and that worked fine.

[bioinfinity]

Hi N11/N12: I am also using a G5 Mac and system 10.3.9. I have given up on Safari already entirely, since some sites make it crash consistently. I have switched to Firefox and that has solved my problems. Also, you have many more add-ons and plug-ins available. IE for the Mac is too old, not updated by Microsoft (after they won the Netscape war) and it is not supporting the newest standards. Thus, certain things don't work or look totally awkward.

[BenBurch]

In particular, some Javascript that is really useful to have for AJAX-ish things will not work on ie on the Mac at all. I still keep it around for testing though.