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Why can't I watch videos on my computer?
Okay so I just purchased a new desk top computer to replace my 10+ year old Dell which was so slow and just had a lot of problems. The new computer is an HP with 8gb of ram and a 1 Tb hard drive. One of the things that was so annoying with my old computer was that watching a video was impossible. It would either freeze up and reload so much that it wasn't worth it or it just wouldn't play at all. I was watching a video on youtube the other day and it started to do the same thing just not near as bad. But it does freeze and reload several times throughout a video. Why is this? I don't know much about how these things work but you would think with a brand new computer that I would not have this problem. Can anyone tell me, in simple english, why this is and what,if anything, I can do about it?
Okay I've learned a little bit. This seems to only happen on youtube or streaming videos I guessing because others seem to be okay. The problem with the previous computer was much worse than the new one because everything locked up on it. Now it's just a slight delay until the audio and video catches up. The internet connection sounds like a real possibility. It's AT&T and it has problems at times like loosing the broadband connection for no logical reason(that I know of anyway).
4 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
the problem, I am quite sure, is with your internet connection. YouTube is a streaming video source, so it is still sending you information while you are watching. If you look at the bar between the playing video and the toolbar(the toolbar is the thing where the play button is located) there is a is a circle which marks where you are in the video. in addition to this there are three colors that the bar can display. a dark grey (almost black which is the same color as the toolbar), a light gray, and a red.
the red marks what you have already seen (or what has been loaded and you skipped). the light gray is what is loaded (this is what you can watch on your comp without having to wait for it). lastly the dark grey is what it has left to load. you cannot watch the dark grey until it has been turned to light gray. the only way for you to watch it all at once is to, press pause at when the video starts playing, and wait until the whole bar tuns gray then press play. otherwise you have to deal with the stop and go.
basically, if I were you I would get a better internet connection. and if you skipped the above because it was too long, it explains how YouTube works in words that normal people can understand(or at lest in the best of my ability)
- 9 years ago
There's many possible reasons why you're having this problem. The one reason that sticks out to me is that you have experienced these problems on both computers with a slight variation in degree of severity with the new computer. This most likely stems from your internet connection, or the network you're on. Most likely the internet connection. What connection are you running, have you experienced the same problem on other connections? As this is a desktop, it's not easy to check this with out physically moving the computer to another location. It could also be your firewall, or antivirus program bogging it down. Does this problem happen with more than just youtube?
- sam21462Lv 59 years ago
You Tube can be quirky at times. How does it do with Hulu or other streaming services?
Also, you can have a great computer but if you have a slow internet connection the computer will not help.
