Why won't videos play on my Macbook?

[speeder]

At least not worth a **** lately. Youtube, news videos, you name it. I have a pretty fast cable internet connection. I have what I believe is the latest Flash player and quicktime. Anyone? TIA.

[nostatic]

karma for talking on your cell phone while driving?











fwiw youtube sometimes becomes unusable for me. I think it is on their side, not mine. When in doubt, reboot.

[craigster59]

Oh snap! (Do people still say that?)


I use a MacBook and my videos work well. What OS?

[rusnak]

Just took a look at mine. OSX 10.9.3 Everything works fine. I haven't updated to 10.9.4 yet.

[Scott R]

Have you tried a different browser?

[Scott R]

Also from a command terminal can you run "top" and post the results?

This is from mine:

Processes: 169 total, 2 running, 4 stuck, 163 sleeping, 915 threads 20:10:28
Load Avg: 1.76, 1.73, 1.65 CPU usage: 8.38% user, 4.24% sys, 87.36% idle
SharedLibs: 11M resident, 81M data, 0B linkedit. MemRegions: 85259 total, 2402M resident, 55M private, 476M shared.
PhysMem: 7508M used (1384M wired), 180M unused. VM: 395G vsize, 1145M framework vsize, 0(0) swapins, 0(0) swapouts.
Networks: packets: 92888435/46G in, 127788104/77G out. Disks: 5929929/116G read, 1152158/57G written.

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT #MREGS MEM RPRVT PURG CMPRS VPRVT VSIZE PGRP PPID STATE
15089- mdworker32 0.0 00:00.09 3 0 52 140 4012K 1848K 0B 0B 55M 659M 15089 165 sleeping
15088 mdworker 0.0 00:00.04 3 0 52 62 2108K 1284K 0B 0B 82M 2445M 15088 165 sleeping
15087 mdworker 0.0 00:00.05 3 0 52 69 4076K 3244K 0B 0B 101M 2465M 15087 165 sleeping
15086 mdworker 0.0 00:00.31 5 1 63 86 10M 8668K 0B 0B 110M 2497M 15086 165 sleeping
15085 top 15.0 00:10.90 1/1 0 26 44 4376K 4148K 0B 0B 72M 2431M 15085 15082 running
15082 bash 0.0 00:00.00 1 0 19 32 676K 532K 0B 0B 30M 2389M 15082 15080 sleeping
15081 CVMCompiler 0.0 00:00.16 2 1 31 74 16M 16M 12K 0B 84M 2462M 15081 165 sleeping
15080 login 0.0 00:00.12 2 0 30 52 1120K 796K 0B 0B 88M 2446M 15080 15078 sleeping
15078 Terminal 1.6 00:01.77 8 2 183+ 162+ 15M+ 10M+ 12K 0B 98M+ 2539M+ 15078 165 sleeping
15075 mdworker 0.0 00:00.53 4 0 62 83 11M 10M 0B 0B 108M 2495M 15075 165 sleeping
14890- cider 18.5 13:01.71 48 3 472+ 2661+ 629M+ 525M+ 64K 0B 1004M+ 2761M+ 14879 1 stuck
14888- wineserver 0.0 00:01.78 4 1 64 73 1652K 748K 0B 0B 84M 686M 14888 1 sleeping
14879- launcher 0.0 00:06.32 25 1 307 805 91M 79M 596K 96K 226M 1037M 14879 165 sleeping
14870 ocspd 0.0 00:00.69 5 1 72 69 3348K 2736K 0B 0B 90M 2479M 14870 1 sleeping
12618 helpd 0.0 00:00.02 3 1 44 54 1324K 744K 0B 0B 87M 2476M 12618 165 sleeping
12280- NDSPCShowSer 0.1 00:02.45 44 1 126 253 8472K 7440K 0B 0B 124M 757M 223 249 sleeping
11290 spindump_age 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 52 58 1260K 692K 0B 0B 89M 2459M 11290 165 sleeping
10312 imklaunchage 0.0 00:00.17 3 1 63 57 1896K 1312K 0B 0B 99M 2469M 10312 165 sleeping
9534 netbiosd 0.0 00:00.81 2 1 42 53 1684K 1460K 0B 300K 97M 2456M 9534 1 sleeping
9524 USBAgent 0.0 00:00.04 2 1 39 53 540K 380K 0B 768K 97M 2456M 9524 165 sleeping
9147 periodic-wra 0.0 00:00.00 2 1 29 40 16K 16K 0B 480K 64M 2422M 9147 1 sleeping
7208 System Prefe 0.0 00:02.84 3 1 228 273 8612K 8764K 0B 3876K 101M 2563M 7208 165 sleeping
7196 DashboardCli 0.0 00:09.40 13 1 186 247 12M 8696K 0B 4280K 210M 3547M 226 226 sleeping
7050 nbstated 0.0 00:00.03 2 0 42 52 1020K 784K 0B 440K 89M 2478M 7050 1 sleeping
4567 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.55 3 2 52 67 904K 636K 0B 784K 98M 2457M 4567 1 sleeping
4566 com.apple.au 0.0 00:00.02 2 1 31 53 604K 448K 0B 676K 97M 2456M 4566 1 sleeping
4565 com.apple.sp 0.0 00:00.37 2 0 54 67 1088K 852K 0B 11M 97M 2467M 4565 165 sleeping
3506 nbagent 0.0 00:03.06 6 1 170 93 4768K 3988K 0B 1484K 99M 2509M 3506 165 sleeping

[stealthn]

Zap your pram

[John Rogers]

Some troubleshooting questions:
- Did they used to play on yours? If so what changed to make them stop? If any updates/patches/browser fixes/etc were dome then can they be undone?
- Do they play on another computer at the same place they do not play on yours? If they don't then it is probably an ISP issue?
- Can you play a video from local hard drive and/or DVD? Could be a video system malfunction?

[Gogar]

Denis,

Try to do a software update and see if anything comes up.

I had the same problem (MacBook Pro 2011ish) and did a software update last night and it's a lot better now. YouTube and Netflix, etc.

Before that it sucked for about 3 weeks or so lately. I never tried to sort it out really though.

[stomachmonkey]

Pretty much all youtube content and other providers have converted their catalogs to h264 so you could remove Flash all together and you'd likely not miss a thing.

The Macbook I'm typing this on is Flash free and no issues.

Something went corrupt.

Probably a Quicktime component.

Quicktime is more than just an app that plays stuff.

Quicktime is a rendering engine that is used system wide.

Hi the App Store icon and see what updates need applying.

[campbellcj]

Test your bandwidth too. Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test is a good one

[vash]

what kinda "videos"?

[speeder]

Thanks all! It was just a youtube video that would not play, (it's fine now), probably too many people trying to watch it at once. But I've had other weird problems with videos like it plays fine for the first half or so of a 5 minute clip and then the picture freezes but the audio continues like nothing happened...odd.

[berettafan]

Did you ask the Panerra people if their wireless service was having trouble?

[livi]

You have to disable the porn screen filter.

[Gogar]

Maybe the wireless at the nail salon just isn't very fast.