Trouble getting Youtube to work [Text View]

BobB

07-18-2008, 10:40 AM

I've got the 9.4 software and can get to the You tube screen. I can see and search all the titles, but whenever I select one, the only thing that happens is that I get the green "show duration" line at the bottom, with a pause icon at zero. Nothing plays. Pushing the Play button just toggles the duration line on and off.

The duration line itself is not always correct - on a few shorter (<2 minutes) items it showed the correct program length (though always in total seconds, not minutes and seconds), but on anything longer it shows the duration as just a few seconds.

Any thoughts on what's happening?

aaronwt

07-18-2008, 10:48 AM

Any network congestion? The few i tried last night had the whole video downloaded in 5 to 20 seconds. But I'm also on a 50mbs connection.

BobB

07-18-2008, 11:27 AM

I'm on a home DSL network that only runs at 1 - 2 Mbps. But my understanding was that Youtube (on PC or TiVo) is a streaming service, not a download service. And I have no trouble viewing Youtube clips on my PC on the same home network.

ThAbtO

07-18-2008, 03:58 PM

I get about 1mb/s on my wireless network.

sieglinde

07-18-2008, 04:05 PM

Mine said wait until August 1st. ?

wmcbrine

07-18-2008, 04:41 PM

Mine said wait until August 1st. ?They really mean "wait until 9.4". Which implies 9.4 by August 1st...

BobB

07-18-2008, 04:57 PM

I get about 1mb/s on my wireless network.

And are you successfully getting streaming YouTube video?

Rdian06

07-18-2008, 05:45 PM

I've got the 9.4 software and can get to the You tube screen. I can see and search all the titles, but whenever I select one, the only thing that happens is that I get the green "show duration" line at the bottom, with a pause icon at zero. Nothing plays. Pushing the Play button just toggles the duration line on and off.

The duration line itself is not always correct - on a few shorter (<2 minutes) items it showed the correct program length (though always in total seconds, not minutes and seconds), but on anything longer it shows the duration as just a few seconds.

Any thoughts on what's happening?

Have you tried telling your Tivo to restart a second time since the update? Maybe it's just a networking config glitch that will work itself out on the next clean DHCP attempt on reboot.

ThAbtO

07-18-2008, 07:44 PM

And are you successfully getting streaming YouTube video?

Only on the PC, Tivo says wait.

BobB

07-21-2008, 01:52 PM

Update: it now works fine. I didn't do anything, one day it didn't work and the next day it did. Go figure.