Is Google Having Problems Delivering YouTube Videos?

Every since the Google acquisition, many times when I go to play video clips on YouTube they don't load as fast as they use to or they have to stop half-way through to re-buffer. For me, this is happening more and more. Yesterday, it took nearly 2 minutes for a 30 second video to start to play and it was a video that had only been viewed 6 times. There has been a lot of speculation on how Google was going to integrate YouTube's videos into the Google delivery network and I have to believe that they are clearly having some performance issues.Has anyone else seen a drop in performance in the playback of videos since the acquisition?

Comments

[Celeste]

Yes, I noticed that a video that a friend had sent me off of YouTube took an exceptionally long period of time to load, and then it kept pausing for long periods to buffer the video.
The videos never used to be so slow before Google acquired YouTube.

[Tom De Nert]

Glad to see I am not the only one who noticed!

[TheShadow]

I just uploaded a video last night. Here it is, 6 hours later, and it finally went from "Image Coming Soon" to the video thumbnail. Here it is 10 minutes later and it still says "Loading..." and this happened three nights ago with another video. These aren't long videos, either.

[sheheryar]

Recently I am having problems running videos. They stop after a while and I have to reload the page. It stops again at the same spot as before. I don't know if this is youtube's problem or some software misisng on my PC.

[mike]

about half the videos I try to watch at the moment won't download, I hardly bother with youtube now

[munda]

I noticed that also - I also noticed that it doesn't buffer for some videos while it buffers normaly for other (since about one week starting from end of October 2007) I have a very very fast Internet connection and alloted enough space to my browsers cache and temporay internet files.Google i.e. youtube is also said to have done something to their video servers - anyway,GoogleVideoBeta doesn't have this buffer problems.Nor does any other similar video site.Is this some sort of silent new censorship, like only buffering "most popular videos" or "most viewed" ? They have ruined it then! I think, me and million others will look for alternative video sites.(there is no lack of them)But if you (Google/youtube) are going to fix this, you better be quick because if this is going on for months, I won't bother even try watching anything on youtube again. Overall satisfaction with youtube since Oct. 2007 = Zero.

[gumomaster]

yep this happened 2 me also!!!!!!! it happened in janurary 3 2008 this pisses me off if u know anything of how 2 fix it plz post it here

[spucki]

I also noticed a lack in performance on YouTube recently - especially on weekends there is a stop in replay every 10 secs or so for about another 10 secs min - this really makes watching YouTube videos a waste of time (as it may have been before, but for other reasons).

[Lee Jun Hei]

I am from Singapore, but I can't access to any YouTube videos. They seem to load forever. When I went to my blog and watch videos from there (the uploading video feature), they say that the video is not available. Is there something wrong?

[SAM]

I'm not having a problem with youtube, but google. They used to play half hour to over an hour videos, but now they only play anywhere from 9-12 minutes

[kingS]

I have the same problem....anyone know why youtube videos are not loading?.....This sucks!

[robinchar]

I have same problem, videos I watched without a problem a few days ago are not loading at all, some will go for 5 seconds or so and then stop, then a minute or so goes by and another 5 seconds of video will play, then video stops and most of the time does not start again. This is really ridiculous. I don't care if the problem is with you tube or google, I would just like one or both of them to get it worked out!

[maria]

few days ago I used to watch video on youtube, but now Icant play anymore some kind of video or it is stopping continuasly.
Please, I need your help.
Thank you.