Can't play THIS youtube video all the way through??

I'm a new mac owner but this This is an extremely strange problem I've been having. I am trying to watch this youtube video all the way through http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVH5rrqkFY

But when I try, I get about 3/4's done and my browser shuts down "unexpectedly". I've tried uninstalling and re-installing flash player. I've tried in Opera, Firefox, Safari and Camino. No luck!

Also, I experience problems where stuff freezes up a lot and applications shut down (every once in a while) randomly (perhaps just buggy programs). Do other people have these problems?

Can you play that video all the way through?? If so, what should I do?

Also, how stable are macs really? This is kind of why I switched!

Ugh frustrating...Do I have a defected mac?

i dont think you should be that frustrated over not being able to watch one video on youtube.

i played the clip and it unexpectedly quit my firefox as well. i don't think you should be worried about your Mac having problems, if you are basing your problems on just that one video.

and about the apps that freeze a lot and unexpectedly quit... do you keep track of which applications do it ? is it always the same one?

I had the same problem. I'm going to try to try it again and skip over the spot not working.

Great video though! I'd love to give it a shot myself. I saw the guys from the show "Mythbusters" do a similar setup for a car test not safe for even a stunt driver.

It kinda reminded me of when I was younger I had a friend who owned a junk yard and we would get worthless cars working well enough to drive to do everything from normal oval racing, to "car tag" to plan old demolition derby. It was a blast; ten times more fun than go-karts and 100 times better than any video game! Nothing like hoping in a real car and just smashing it up.

You do not have to be worried not able to watch one youtube movie. MacBooks are very stable and Mac OS X is really a stable operating system. As usually, there can be a flaw in the video file making your computer to crash.

Okay, well thanks guys... I guess it's some sort of flash/youtube problem. Strange...

I am going to try it on a PC. Will get back later. I watch 100's of music videos on youtube weekly and have never had one do that even with Safari.

why did it have to be a problem with a TopGear episode? that show is awesome

(obviously I had the same problem)

One thing to note with most any type of video or audio file: (and this holds true for CD's and DVD's also) when you notice a file have problems playing through in the same place, almost everytime the issue will be the file itself, not your hardware nor your software.

With CD's and DVD's; when you notice one machine will not play through a spot on the disk while another will, this typically indicates a bad pressing and some players can read through that data better than others.

bobtomay said:

One thing to note with most any type of video or audio file: (and this holds true for CD's and DVD's also) when you notice a file have problems playing through in the same place, almost everytime the issue will be the file itself, not your hardware nor your software.

With CD's and DVD's; when you notice one machine will not play through a spot on the disk while another will, this typically indicates a bad pressing and some players can read through that data better than others.

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Very well said and very true. I run into that all the time, especially your 2nd example.

Why not just downloading it? Yep it can be done. Even Google videos can be DL'ed. Try that method.