This movie could not be played - YouTube

I am still experiancing problems and considering calling Apple. Im a bit relieved to know that my relative ,whom owns an iPhone, is exreriancing this problem as well. Hopefully, these widespread youtube failures will grab Apple's attention.

Im pretty sure that my problem is now isolated to 3G, because it seemed to work on Edge. I couldnt test it on wifi though, since i dont have it.

I'm haveing the same problem my YouTube videos will not play on wi fi or 3g this has been going on since yesterday I guess there is no fix for this.

We have around 7 iphones in our family. I have upgraded all of them to version 2.2.1 and had not encountered any errors while such upgrade. The issue is only two of our 7 phones are having " This movie could not be Played - YouTube" problem and not all. This is strange. The same files works well on other phones and even on PCs. I tried to use RESET on iphone and tried even turning off Safari's Block Popup in settings thinking that might be the cause. But nothing worked. I request iphone support to provide solutions on this please.

I just purchased my iphone on Saturday and youtube was working fine over the weekend. When I tried to show someone the youtube feature I got the "This movie could not be played" for every bookmark I had.

Not good for a new phone - I'm giving mine until the weekend before I switch back to my old phone.

I have the same problem with my 8GB 3G, and I also tried on my brother's iTouch and it worked perfectly

Yep, I am having the same issue. As of a few days ago, I started to get an error message "This movie could not be played" on 95% of videos I had saved in my Youtube bookmarks and used to view them before with no absolutely no problem. I did a hard rebot, no change. I uninstalled the latest app I had installed, "The Weather Channel" and a few days ago, did a hard reboot, no change. I have an iPhone 3G and my neighbors have both iPhone 2G and 3Gs they don't seem to be affected and can view the videos on their iPhones with no problems. I have been running the 2.2 software since I got the phone in December, 2008.

even though a full restore worked for me and youtube videos began playing the download speed has been so significantly reduced that it is not worth watching videos on

this is very painful

I have the exact same issue. Videos that played fine before give me that error now, videos that I have never played before also give it to me, 95% it seems of the videos I want to watch won't work.
The few that do play load so slow that I won't even watch them.

Whatever someone did to mess things up needs to be undone.

in case you want to try Erase all content and settings, when I did that the Youtube app worked alright when in a virgin state, but when I restored it was exactly the same as before, I think a software issue is behind this, but Iʻll be ****** if I can figure it out 😟

Add me to the list of disappointed recent iPhone 3G purchasers. The device is so beautiful, will Apple and/or YouTube please take responsibility and tell users what they're supposed to do? Even if it's "Hold on, we're working on it." Leaving new users to contemplate possibly problematic Backup/Restore rituals with anecdotal reports of mixed success fixing the problem is no way to make satisfied customers! We want to know what went wrong, what we as users need to do about it (hopefully nothing!), and how to keep it from happening again.

This from a 30+ year software developer, excited about developing apps for the iPhone! Come on Apple and YouTube, you're the big boys...show us how it should be done.

A video I have tried playing over 10 times in the last 3 days and keeps giving me the error finaly worked when I google searched and launched the video from the search result yet it still won't work from the iPhone YouTube app.

Add me to the growing list. I've had my iPod touch since December and never had any problems with YouTube, suddenly two days ago I started getting the same message as everyone else. The fact that a bunch of people have had this happen all at once suggests that something has changed recently.

me and my brothers iphone 8gb 3g is not working...same problem like everyone else, works thru safari, fails thru app except featured videos, has apple responded to this issue yet? this is really starting to **** me off...

This has been an issue for a long time.
we were told that it was being fixed over a year ago.
see this...
http://limitededitioniphone.com/this-movie-could-not-be-played-message-on-iphone -and-touchs-youtube/
I'm angry now and certainly do no recomend apples customer care...or their iphone that i once loved.
Ipone = flakey.