Videos not playing, just buffering, only fix is a reboot!

Just recently, and had this problem on my PC a couple times before i owned a Mac, whenever i go to Youtube or pretty much any source that has a video it either wont start playing or the circle for "loading" will just spin around and around, not the pinwheel but just the circle that appears on YouTube. I'm running the latest version of Ventura on my new Mac Studio with 32GB RAM. This happens with Safari or Chrome and everything is fine when i reboot my Mac Studio. I have a MacBook Pro and my iPhone 14 Pro Max that have no problems at all loading the same videos all running on the same WIFI. Actually my Mac Studio is hardwired but still the same issue. Any others have this issue?

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Posted on Nov 1, 2022 7:08 AM

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Posted on Nov 30, 2022 4:46 PM

I actually figured it out. Oddly enough it had to do with my speakers. I noticed my external speakers volume would not turn up or down at the same time the video was spinning. I removed the speakers and used the internal Mac speakers and all of a sudden no more problems. Very odd!

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