YouTube Keeps Crashing on iPad

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YouTube Keeps Crashing on iPad

Youtube on the iPad seems to be crashing all the time. Trying to find a pattern to this behavior seems to be a futile effort. I read on some other posts that if the app tried to play the movies when it wasn't buffered, it caused a crash. But I'm seeing several crashes when a clip reaches its end. Also if I try to exit full screen mode by using the pinch gesture, it often leads to crashes. By crash, I mean the app simply quits and I see the homescreen. This is getting to a point where I am no longer able to view more than 3-4 videos without the app crashing once on me. All of the other apps on my iPad work fine. What do I need to do to fix this problem?

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iPad 16GB Non-3G, Other OS

Posted on Jun 3, 2010 10:46 PM

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red555

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Jun 4, 2010 10:14 AM in response to evitavonni

You can report it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Get expert help here:
http://www.apple.com/support/expert/

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evitavonni Author

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Jun 16, 2010 7:26 PM in response to evitavonni

One thing that has considerably reduced the number of times this app crashes is a complete restart of the iPad. I simply booted the machine and it seems like the crashing behavior has reduced by about 80% (or more).

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Rex Ng

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Jun 16, 2010 8:33 PM in response to evitavonni

Just want to know some video in Utube can't be played in iPad, anyone know why?

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Jun 16, 2010 11:10 PM in response to Rex Ng

Some of the older videos are still in the flash format. If you trying to view a new video on YouTube that has been sent to YouTube. YouTube converts to the flash format and then to the Quicktime after that. The conversion to Quicktime can take a few minutes or even a few hours depending on the video and traffic to the site. I think they serve over a billion videos a day.....

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