Every video is lagging and choppy?

I was having this problem too for about 3 days. the audio was perfect but I couldn't watch the videos without it being really choppy. What you need to do is kill all your apps from multitasking, and restart (hold down power and home button until screen goes off) and you should be all good. it worked for me at least

Restarting the app, clearing space, and restarting the device in dfiferent combinations all would relieve the problem for a few mintues, but then it'd come back just as bad.

I reset to factory new this weekend, and haven't added back hardly any apps or other data. I don't like this solution, but it's relieved the problem. I was shooting for a firmware wipe and replacement, but decided for the earier data wipe when the FW download was going to take 3 hours. I may still do it later . .

I just ran into this problem yesterday on several sites including youtube and my xfinitygo app. Now I see that many people have been having this problem for several weeks. What is Apple doing to address this issue. I followed one of the suggestions to terminate most of the apps on the multitasking list but it didn't help. I then did the system restart and at least for now it is working smoothly again.

I have been having the same exact issue but my first experience was in my Plex player. I use this app across multiple platforms and devices at home and remotely and every other one worked fine. I poked around and discovered that yes every video I played back whether remote (stream) or local all had choppy / laggy playback. I reloaded the app as other suggested with the Youtube app to no avail. I reset everything everywhere else on my network first in part because my iPhone 4s power button is broken. Eventually I powered down the phone completely (w/ assistive touch for those that don't know) and after restarting (yes by plugging it in to sync) everything is now working well. The lag in all sources seems to have gone away. Whatever setting or temp file seems to have been committed, cleared, whatever at restart. I hope this helps somebody else; It took me about two weeks to go through this whole process. Cheers!

Delete youtube app and then hold the lock and home buttons at the same time until the screen goes black. Then simply turn it back on and the problem should be fixed.

I killed JUST the YouTube app.; powered my iPad off, then on......videos are back to normal.

Same problem here, yesterday suddenly all video's slowed but sound remained fine. Rebooted my Iphone and it improved slightly but far from smooth! Even my fresh recorded video's cannot play normally anymore.. I'm not aware of any recent updates, but it feels like apple pushed a faulty video decoder to my phone. Or perhaps a hardware defect? Anybody?

I'm also getting this problem. Downloaded video in podcast app, youtube and facebook videos.

My iPad mini has been doing this for about two days now. I kinda notice it when I'm switching to different apps too. Even the keypad is a little slow.

I'm having the same problem. Sometime it works fine and sometime it doesn't. Been having this problem for about a month now. It gets really annoying!! I don't have that much app in my iPad 2. I will reset it and try again but nothing seems to work. Apple needs to figure this one out soon before I throw it away lol

having this problem for 3 days. all streaming videos. but videos that is saved on ipad is fine. Its not because of my Internet im using Wifi Connection.

Noticed that people are experiencing this as well .. what will apple do about this .. you need to do an update to this . or look for a resolution ..

I have had this issue off and on for 6+ months now. I am not sure if what I do fixes it or if I just get so frustrated that I start skipping every video. Last night the problem came back. I deleted all un-needed apps but not youtube. I cleaned out the pictures. I have no music. On a 16GB 4s I have a little over 7GB free. I cleared out safari history, cookies and data. I have closed all apps. I have rebooted the phone. I have done all of the tuning ideas like disabling back ground updates, background app refresh, etc. Bluetooth is off. Battery is fully charged and internet bandwidth is not an issue. The choppy video happens in Live Leak, Break, YouTube, HBOgo, FaceBook and any video played from webpages. I have chosen low def SD streams with no change. As reported above, the audio is fine but the video runs at about 1fps. I can jump to different parts of the video and it will play fine for about 3 secs and then starts chopping again. I have also tried pausing at the beginning to let the buffer fill up. No difference. If I was going to point fingers, the video decoding engine of iOS is the culprit. If I remember correctly, this started happening after the first update of iOS 7.

WIll apple repsonse to this ?

THis is so frustrating. That u just want to be on ur bed and streaming some videos but u cant even get to watch it bcoz its so lag. Delay + Lag = DeLag

I have serious issues with YouTube on my iPad also.

I have a 4th gen iPad (A1458) and I also use a 5G wifi connection but still have problems.

I've followed all of the guides to try and resolve the issue but it still lags.

It usually starts with the quality of the video I'm trying to watch, degrading before it eventually starts to pause while the app buffers.

Why we can't control the buffering within the app itself is down to Google but surely it shouldn't be this bad.

Even when in the same room as my hub the videos still degrade and pause frequently.

Vimeo on the other hand has no such problems.

In fact, practically every other app for video streaming I have on my iPad has no problem in playing videos, unlike the YouTube app.

I'm hoping that this issue will be sorted by the time the next iOS release is here.

Surely that is the reason why we are hearing nothing about this from either Apple or Google.

I should also add that this is my internet connection speed over wifi using 5G on my iPad.

Another thing that I should mention.

This issue seems directly related to the YouTube app.

I've just watched a video which I know will always lag via the app.

However, opening up Safari, going directly to the YouTube site and watching the same video, it didn't lag once.

In fact, I noticed the buffer bar increasing faster than the playback.

It must have gotten itself up to a minute ahead of the actual playback which is exactly what I would have expected.