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Bent Romnes
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Post by Bent Romnes »

Walter, I am wondering if it could be Youtube itself that could have been the problem.

Gary Preston complained of his youtube also stopping on him. At the same time, my youtube was also acting up.
For no apparent reason, when I clicked on a song to play, it would load up the whole song, but only play the first 2 seconds and stop dead.
Another problem was a video that David Wright had displayed. It would not load at all, just try and try.
Then, all of a sudden when I tried for the 10th time, it worked just fine. In the meantime, all other vids loaded and played just fine.

I am wondering if youtube and its very heavy traffic could often be the culprit.
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It may not be a coincidence after all. I believe that Adobe updated Flash about a week ago. Not only do end users have to upgrade their client-side Flash plug-ins, but authoring websites must also update their web page codes, to stay current with security patches. It might could be that you all got caught in the Twilight Zone between the old code and new code, on YouTube. If that is in fact what happened, my previous explanation about the "Convergence Of Forces Beyond Our Comprehension" definitely applies here.
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Post by Walter Stettner »

I thought about that, too. If something has been changed, it wasn't my set-up, but maybe the server configurations.

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