Youtube app not buffering correctly

yes, i have the exact same issue. It goes for a while, then just stops... and never starts back up.

The second day I had mine it was fine. That was the day after the "launch". I watched a goofy 3-4 minute video my dad wanted to see. I hadn't tried Youtube on it again until last night. It would start buffering, then start the video, then the video would stop and I had to hit the "Play" arrow to get it to start again, then it would stop again and I had to do it again. The buffering also seemed to stop every time the streaming video stopped. The buffer stayed ahead of the stream, it just stopped all the time... Not good.

Same issue. I'm actually having the same issue on all sites that have to buffer streaming video...buffers a few seconds at a time then stops.

Not just YouTube - seemingly any video viewer in Safari gets this currently. Me? I have probs watching South Park at their site.

The only thing to try is:

1. Uninstall Flash, then reinstall
2. Safari> Empty Cache

However, I noticed that my cache wasn't emptying when viewed in Library> Cache> com.apple.safari....

Any good tips?

This is discussing YouTube on the iPad, not the Mac.

Personally, I've had no issues. I've been able to watch 10+ minute streams without a problem.

I don't believe Apple allows "Flash" to be installed on any of their products. Am I wrong?

I'm afraid you are. It's the iPhone/Touch/Pad that don't have Flash. Macs can instal and watch stuff with it.

However, it's been a bit naff recently. Coincidence?

I generally have the same issue with my iPad when using the YouTube app. The odd thing is that I can watch a Netflix video and not experience the same problem. Netflix locks up on me occasionally, and throws me back to the Home screen, but I have all but given up on YouTube.

In case this applies to others with similar issues, I seem to have "slow" wireless with the iPad at home, but have not experienced any connection drops--thankfully. I have a newly refurbished Airport Extreme on RoadRunner. I haven't taken the iPad out any field trips yet as I was terrified I would be the idiot to drop it on the floor at Panera. "And tonight on the News at Nine, a local a woman commits sucide with a plastic knife after dropping her iPad at a downtown cafe; we hope to bring you video at 11:00, so please tune in for the latest on this tragic story."

I received the Belkin Grip Pad yesterday and feel much better about life in general now...

I'm having serious issues with YouTube content on my 16GB Wifi iPad

I've tested playing YouTube on 3 different Wifi hotspots and streaming performance is terrible on all of them.

One thing I've noticed is that the videos I'm having most problems with are HD videos. For example this video runs for 2mins 51secs. Using the iPad this is still streaming after 25 minutes, and has more or less stalled after having only streamed half the content. When I try to stream the same video on my laptop (using the same Wifi network) it takes 2 minutes to fully stream.

On the other 2 wifi networks I tested on, I was not able to improve on this stream time using the iPad.

I have not really been able to use YouTube on my ipad due to this issue. But I do not usually have trouble with netflix. Although i have tried netflix in other places and just can not get enough buffer. I have horrible trouble with wifi outside of my house.

I was able to identify the problem and why the buffering on the iPad is slow. When I play a YouTube video on my laptop, the quality is set to 360p 0 I can amend this as I want. Obviously the lower the quality the faster the buffering.

However on the iPad YouTube App the quality is automatically set to the highest quality available, and there is no option to change this. This means that if your download speed is not high, then it is going to take a long time to download.

I did a like for like test on a YouTube video using the iPad app, and on my laptop (setting the video quality to 720p), and the buffering time was equally as poor on both.

A setting needs to be put on the iPad YouTube App that allows the user to configure the quality setting.

People have been complaining about this problem since the iPad came out last April. It ***** big time. Apple are you listening? Google "slow iPad YouTube"....this really needs to be addressed. I am going to become an iPad anti-evangelist if Apple doesn't fix this. It is SO frustrating. Many videos are simply unwatchable.

If you ever come up with a solution to this, please let me know. My other wireless devices (xbox 360, windows computer) stream YouTube via my wifi perfectly. This is a known bug on the iPad that Apple needs to fix. slow iPad YouTube ..... Google it.

my research leads me to the same conclusion

I was actually glad this WiFi issue is somewhat documented online. I took my 64gb back today after noticing the video buffering would just stop or would always fall back and cause video stops. This did not happen on any of my other wireless devices pulling up the same video.

I took mine back to Best Buy this morning and was issued a full refund. This device is just not feature rich enough to have issues that cripple what features it does have.