Every video I want to see on Yahoo tries to load and soon claims “Sorry, that video is no longer available.” These are recent links for up-to-the minute news stories! How can the videos no longer be available? What gives? :mad:
I asked this same question not too long ago, and never got an answer.
Here is what I was able to find out through some experimentation though:
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It only happens on Yahoo news videos. I’ve never had any problem with video from any other site. And if the video on Yahoo news was from, say, ABC News, I could go to the ABC website and watch it with no problem.
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It didn’t seem to be specific to any particular computer or browser. It would happen in both IE or Firefox on any one of four different computers in the house.
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On my work laptop, I would have this problem if I was just using normal wireless internet access. However, when I connected to my work’s VPN, the problem disappeared and the Yahoo News videos would display just fine.
Here’s the clincher, though: just earlier this week we had ATT U-verse installed, and now the Yahoo news videos are playing just fine. So my best guess is that it was probably a configuration issue in my old wireless cable modem, although it is possible it could have been issue with my previous ISP.
Thanks, Shoeless. On one hand, I interpret your words as saying the trouble is not actually on Yahoo’s end; yet, I do not have this problem with any other website! So, I suspect there MUST BE something different about how Yahoo formats or posts their videos. …Or, is it a little of both?
Interesting Yahoo has that stupid, annoying “robot” like figure telling me the video is no longer available. If Yahoo’s site is smart enough to have that pop-up, why can’t their site say “This video cannot play at this time. Some reasons for this might be…” to give folks a better understanding as to what’s up, doc!?!
I think you’re right that it is probably a little of both. There must be something different about the way Yahoo news videos are streamed, which may or may not cause a problem depending on how your network is set up. The fact that this would happen to me with my work laptop on my home network, but not at work or when logged in through the VPN, tells me that a network setting must be at least part of the problem. But the fact that it only happens on Yahoo tells me that they must be doing something different.
One thing in particular that used to drive me nuts is that I would click on a Yahoo news video, an ad would play first with no problem, then when the news video tried to load I’d get the “robot” screen saying the video is no longer available, then a few seconds later the ad would start playing again. (Then again, that’s just the way the internet works - ads will always get through, even if the content doesn’t.)
Probably unrelated, Yahoo trailers don’t work properly for me. Sometimes I can download, mostly I can’t.
Yahoo! has been doing something with their Bookmarks for weeks now. Yesterday was supposed to be the day that you could get back in and edit/add/delete/whatever your bookmarks again. Now I can do all of that, but all of my bookmarks as they appear in the toolbar drop-down are completely scrambled. Even the folders are scrambled, so it’s crazy to try to find anything. They’re not even scrambled in the order they were created or how often they’re used… anything that might mean something. On the Bookmarks page, they are perfectly alphabetized but not grouped by folder, so I would have to page through to find the bookmark I want. Argggh!
This has got to be some teeny little thing that they could fix in a minute, right? Is there any point in trying to send them an e-mail (I did that yesterday)? If it’s affecting me, it’s affecting everybody else the same way, so either they can’t do anything or they don’t care, right? Yahoo! Mail has been wonky and slow for the last month too. It may or may not delete stuff I want deleted (sometimes it deletes it but it reappears the next time I open my mailbox), it may or may not open the next e-mail… Argggh!
Anybody recommend any good portal sites? 