Can't play youtube videos all of a sudden

Same problem Ipod touch.

I have the exact same problem. It was working Saturday afternoon but not since Sunday night. Videos that I get the "This movie cannot be played" error message using the YouTube app on my 2G ipod touch play fine when viewed on YouTube using the Safari browser.

I'm having the same problem. Yesterday YT from the icon was working fine. I just tried YT in Safari(for the first time because I've always used the YT icon) and it's working perfect.

Hello everyone,
I think that I have found a solution to our Youtube problem. Like you I was unable to get youtube on my ipod touch with that famous line playing over and over "this movie connot be played". It took my son to go on the safari icon the tpe in youtube in the search box at the top, this is now how I view youtube. ope this helps for now. I guess the we have to wait for youtube to catch up until then we can go this way. 🙂

This is really weird. I did more testing and if I go to the "Featured" section on the YouTube app and play the first two videos (Adventures of Puffincat and 1st Collaborative Sitcom...) in the list they play fine. But trying to play any of the rest of them in the "Featured" list give me the "This movie cannot be played" error. Then if I go to "Most Viewed" for Today, all of those clips (at least the first 25) play fine. The same goes for Most Viewed for This Week. But if I try to view any of the videos under All for Most Viewed, none of them work. Also, older videos I bookmarked no longer work either.

The exact same thing is happening to me. I can play the first two featured videos fine, everything else says "this movie cannot be played." Something might be going on with you tube since I find it odd that this many people would start having this problem simultaneously.

Same issue, iPhone, but I'm so glad to see everyone is having the same problem!

Same problem...ipod touch, i could get YouTube last night but not today!

I had this problem last night and this morning but now the Youtube videos are playing fine (10:30AM MST) so they must have fixed it. Try it again.

yes, same thing here too, since a few days!

THIS FIXED IT FOR ME:
Restore the phone, and update as NEW PHONE (not from a Backup).
all movies from my previous bookmark list tried so far work without a glitch.

(then tried to restore from a Backup, 3 weeks old(!), got same problem!, then repeated the NEW PHONE procedure again and all is well.)

Hence the problem seems to be local, with the phone/pod and not with YouTube. Did we get a virus yesterday or was there a sun storm?

I too have this problem. even on the YouTube website the "this video cannot be played" message pops up, I hope this problem gets fixed soon, as I use YouTube every day.

Just happened to me, no videos will play. I asked my friend who has a iTouch too and he confirmed the EXACT same problem and symptoms (bookmarks dont work, search doesnt work)

I can view youtube via safari, but not youtube app. It worked fine up until last night (at least that I noticed)
Anybody find a fix, yet?
thanks

The exact same thing happened to me! On Sunday, I believe. The 22st. I can watch certain videos like the top 2 on my bookmarks but everything else has the same "This Movie Cannot Be Played" message. And it was working fine in the morning. I tried resetting the settings on my Wi-Fi, and the settings on my iTouch. And I don't feel like restoring my ipod and putting everything back on...
If someone finds out the reason for this and perhaps, a fix. Please let me know.
Glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem, though. Thought i was the only one, lol (whew)

Also I have the 2G iTouch