Computer/Internet Help

[ProgRocker53]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

[stevew2]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Stop being gay {just kidding}

[7 Wishes]

Young 'uns like you aren't supposed to have internet problems. It's middle-aged farts like me who are playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in the pitch black, in a storage vault.

[Indyjoe]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Right now I can't see youtube vids at all, but I can hear complete audio. Weird. I was wondering what was up? I can see the thumbnails, but when I click on them it is like there is no player to see them with?

[Rick]

Hey bro. Sounds like your computers RAM is saturated. Which means you may not have enough. It could also mean you have a virus. Take a look at your Task Manager. Open the Task Manager by right clicking an empty area in your task bar and then clicking Task Manager on the resulting menu. At the bottom left, it lists how many Processes are running. Keeping that under 40 is great for a computer running Windows XP with 1 or 2 gigs of RAM. At the bottom center, check your Commit Charge. If your first figure is over 35% of the second figure, you're computer is really struggling. Click the Processes tab near the top of the Task Manager. If there are any processes in the list that are just an unintelligible string of letters and numbers, you probably do have a virus. Programs like lsass, csrss and smss are fine. I'm referring to things like kdrk2ic8ix.exe

If you're running more than 40 processes, the easiest thing to do is check the icons by the system tray where the clock is. If you have an abundance of them, you can prune that down. Each of those icons represents a program that is running in the background. Each program running in the background uses ram and processor cycles, and a computer only has so many to go around. Determine what each icon represents and whether or not they need to be running constantly. If you think they don't then right click the icon and find that programs preferences and uncheck any box that says "Start This Program When Windows Starts" or "Run on System Startup" something like that. Also you can click Start then go to All Programs and then find the Startup folder and see how many programs are listed in there. You can determine whether you need them or not and right click and delete any that you don't.

If you feel that your computer has a virus, I'd suggest going to www.avast.com and downloading the free antivirus client.
First, remove any other anitvirus program from your system before installing another. Never have two running as it can cause your system to crash. During the installation of Avast, select the Minimal installation. It will ask if you want to schedule a boot time scan. Answer yes to that. It will ask if you want to restart, answer no to that. Open Avast by double clicking the Avast icon on the desktop. Click Tools, then go to Updating then click iAVS Update. Let Avast update itself, then restart your computer. It will perform a boot time scan. If it stops asking what you want to do with a specific infection, select to move it to the chest.

Let me know if any of this helps.

[ProgRocker53]

Young 'uns like you aren't supposed to have internet problems. It's middle-aged farts like me who are playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in the pitch black, in a storage vault.

I've never been very good with technology, or anything with numbers. Give me a pen and paper, or a bass guitar, or a deck of cards and some chips.... and I'll be happier with that instead.

[7 Wishes]

You were supposed to be born in '69, dude.

[ProgRocker53]

Hey bro. Sounds like your computers RAM is saturated. Which means you may not have enough. It could also mean you have a virus. Take a look at your Task Manager. Open the Task Manager by right clicking an empty area in your task bar and then clicking Task Manager on the resulting menu. At the bottom left, it lists how many Processes are running. Keeping that under 40 is great for a computer running Windows XP with 1 or 2 gigs of RAM. At the bottom center, check your Commit Charge. If your first figure is over 35% of the second figure, you're computer is really struggling. Click the Processes tab near the top of the Task Manager. If there are any processes in the list that are just an unintelligible string of letters and numbers, you probably do have a virus. Programs like lsass, csrss and smss are fine. I'm referring to things like kdrk2ic8ix.exe

If you're running more than 40 processes, the easiest thing to do is check the icons by the system tray where the clock is. If you have an abundance of them, you can prune that down. Each of those icons represents a program that is running in the background. Each program running in the background uses ram and processor cycles, and a computer only has so many to go around. Determine what each icon represents and whether or not they need to be running constantly. If you think they don't then right click the icon and find that programs preferences and uncheck any box that says "Start This Program When Windows Starts" or "Run on System Startup" something like that. Also you can click Start then go to All Programs and then find the Startup folder and see how many programs are listed in there. You can determine whether you need them or not and right click and delete any that you don't.

If you feel that your computer has a virus, I'd suggest going to www.avast.com and downloading the free antivirus client.
First, remove any other anitvirus program from your system before installing another. Never have two running as it can cause your system to crash. During the installation of Avast, select the Minimal installation. It will ask if you want to schedule a boot time scan. Answer yes to that. It will ask if you want to restart, answer no to that. Open Avast by double clicking the Avast icon on the desktop. Click Tools, then go to Updating then click iAVS Update. Let Avast update itself, then restart your computer. It will perform a boot time scan. If it stops asking what you want to do with a specific infection, select to move it to the chest.

Let me know if any of this helps.

1- 66 Processes, I closed a few background programs but only got it down to 63/64. 26% is that RAM figure. I only have Explorer, iTunes, and Yahoo IM running at this point.

2- I checked all the processes, alot seemed normal and the ones with a bunch of letters seemed to have a few letter clusters that made it seem like something important, such as "prgrm" or "wndw" or something along those lines.

3- I tried to close iTunes and check out YouTube with it down and still does the skip/chop. Any clue where to go from here? Should I trim some unneccessary things from the computer, such as excess music/games/etc.?

[STORY_TELLER]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Get a mac.

Seriously though, if you're technically challenged, push pause when you enter the page and wait for the entire clip to load first, then push play. If you still have problems doing that, well, you're fucked.

[G.I.Jim]

You were supposed to be born in '69, dude.

No joke! He's way behind the times for the new generation, and I think it's cool as hell! It's not often you find someone his age (no offense) who likes the kind of music that this site is built around! You go boy!!!

[Rick]

Hey bro. Sounds like your computers RAM is saturated. Which means you may not have enough. It could also mean you have a virus. Take a look at your Task Manager. Open the Task Manager by right clicking an empty area in your task bar and then clicking Task Manager on the resulting menu. At the bottom left, it lists how many Processes are running. Keeping that under 40 is great for a computer running Windows XP with 1 or 2 gigs of RAM. At the bottom center, check your Commit Charge. If your first figure is over 35% of the second figure, you're computer is really struggling. Click the Processes tab near the top of the Task Manager. If there are any processes in the list that are just an unintelligible string of letters and numbers, you probably do have a virus. Programs like lsass, csrss and smss are fine. I'm referring to things like kdrk2ic8ix.exe

If you're running more than 40 processes, the easiest thing to do is check the icons by the system tray where the clock is. If you have an abundance of them, you can prune that down. Each of those icons represents a program that is running in the background. Each program running in the background uses ram and processor cycles, and a computer only has so many to go around. Determine what each icon represents and whether or not they need to be running constantly. If you think they don't then right click the icon and find that programs preferences and uncheck any box that says "Start This Program When Windows Starts" or "Run on System Startup" something like that. Also you can click Start then go to All Programs and then find the Startup folder and see how many programs are listed in there. You can determine whether you need them or not and right click and delete any that you don't.

If you feel that your computer has a virus, I'd suggest going to www.avast.com and downloading the free antivirus client.
First, remove any other anitvirus program from your system before installing another. Never have two running as it can cause your system to crash. During the installation of Avast, select the Minimal installation. It will ask if you want to schedule a boot time scan. Answer yes to that. It will ask if you want to restart, answer no to that. Open Avast by double clicking the Avast icon on the desktop. Click Tools, then go to Updating then click iAVS Update. Let Avast update itself, then restart your computer. It will perform a boot time scan. If it stops asking what you want to do with a specific infection, select to move it to the chest.

Let me know if any of this helps.

1- 66 Processes, I closed a few background programs but only got it down to 63/64. 26% is that RAM figure. I only have Explorer, iTunes, and Yahoo IM running at this point.

2- I checked all the processes, alot seemed normal and the ones with a bunch of letters seemed to have a few letter clusters that made it seem like something important, such as "prgrm" or "wndw" or something along those lines.

3- I tried to close iTunes and check out YouTube with it down and still does the skip/chop. Any clue where to go from here? Should I trim some unnecessary things from the computer, such as excess music/games/etc.?

No, having programs installed on your computer or having music on your hard drive won't negatively impact your computer. Programs running in the background will though. If you have less than 1 gig of ram on an XP machine then I'd suggest adding more. If you have less than 2 gig on a Vista machine, I suggest adding more.

Gotta hit the hay, will check on this tomorrow.

[ProgRocker53]

You were supposed to be born in '69, dude.

No joke! He's way behind the times for the new generation, and I think it's cool as hell! It's not often you find someone his age (no offense) who likes the kind of music that this site is built around! You go boy!!!

No offense found bro.

Dude, I'd love to be this age back in the day, you dig? The day Journey or Van Halen or Boston drop their new record, I put on my leather jacket and slick up my mullet, wheel my junk car down to the store and pick up the vinyl, spin it with my buddies while throwing back a brew, then go chasin' some tail down at the Krokus show....


.....wait.

....were the 70s/80s really like that, or is my dad just full of shit?

[stevew2]

There are alot of viruses on them gay porns sites,you might want to cut back a little

[ProgRocker53]

There are alot of viruses on them gay porns sites, i shuld probly cut back a little

Incredible insight from someone who's been there. stevew2, I appreciate the warning, if I ever get on a gay porn site I'll remember this.

Brave, noble soul.

[Voyager]

PR,

Have you tried deleting your temporary Internet files? You should delete them about once every week or two. They can eat up a lot of RAM and hard disk space.

[ttango1]

Load a program called Glary Utilities. It's free, it's bad ass and it helps optimize your shit.

Also you may want to try this:
http://www.jakeludington.com/youtube/20 ... uffer.html

It's a pre-buffer that getches your video and loads it before playing to minimize the slowdown.

I was born in 1967 and I didn't see Krokus at all. I didn't have a mullet, although I did wear shirts that had asymmetrical buttons(think from left shoulder to right hip) and I could break dance.

[annie89509]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

This happened to my computer exactly a few weeks ago. I couldn't watch anything on youtube. Had to wait for my husband to find the time to strip the computer clean. Then start fresh with internet service, software programs I need, etc. It's working fine now. Thank God I have a separate portable hard drive that I keep my music downloads .

[ProgRocker53]

I deleted cookies and temporary internet files and tried watching the 'Tube with NOTHING else up except for it... still no success.

I'll probably be trying ttango's suggestions later on... how does one add RAM to a computer?

[conversationpc]

1- 66 Processes, I closed a few background programs but only got it down to 63/64. 26% is that RAM figure. I only have Explorer, iTunes, and Yahoo IM running at this point.

66 processes is way too many unless you're running quite a few programs at the same time. If you're running XP, try clicking on Start, Run..., and then type in msconfig and hit OK. This will bring up the System Configuration screen. Choose Selective Startup on the first tab and then go to the Startup tab. De-select any program that is not necessary for Windows to run. If you're not sure about the items there, do a Google search on the executable name of the program. You will usually be able to find whether or not you can safely disable it.

You may also want to go into Computer Management (right-click on My Computer and select Manage). Find the list of services and see which ones are Started. Again, you may need to do a search to see which are necessary (there are quite a few that are required for Windows to function correctly).

I'd also highly recommend installing Spybot S&D and Lavasoft Ad-Aware...Both programs are pretty good at removing spyware/adware.

[brywool]

For some reason lately, YouTube videos won't play consistently for me. They chop/skip quite a bit (most of the time the audio stays consistent, though), and in some cases completely freeze after a minute or so.

What may be causing the problem, and how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

This could actually be from your Inet connection. If it's dodgy or overloaded, you'll have this problem. I hd the same thing a few weeks ago. Cleared up the next day.

[Voyager]

A few questions PR:

1. How much RAM does your system have?

2. Do you have virus software running?

3. What is your upload/download speed? (Check it here: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest )

4. What speed is your processor?

5. Are you running XP or Vista?