First, make sure you do have the latest version of Java installed on your computer.Go to this website to test it. If you don't see an animated GIF display showing a moving animation and telling you that you have the latest Java installed, and telling you its version details, then you haven't got it yet. You should download the latest version from their downloads page and install it. It will then show up in its own spot on your Windows 'Control Panel' which is shown here above.
Go into Control Panel, click on "Java" beside its coffee cup icon to bring up this window. On the Java Control Panel, on the "General" tab (first one) click on "Temporary Files Settings" and set yours like those shown here. Set that compression level to "Medium", and set the slider for adjusting the storage space to use by moving it all the way to the right, to its maximum position. While you're there, click on the button to "Delete Files", which will clean out any already taking up space, so you will be starting fresh. Then click "OK", then click on "Apply" in the main window, and then click its "OK" and exit the window. Try streaming a video now, and see how it plays.
Another thing you can do:-
If the video pauses to buffer, right-click on it to bring up this little 'Settings' window, and choose the item along the bottom of it for Files (the folder icon)
and then drag that slider over to its far right end, to the maximum position for storage space for files on your computer, and then click on 'Close' to exit. That tells your computer that it's OK to store this incoming video signal in your Temporary Internet Files, and to use the maximum space allotted for that, so
theoretically, that should give it plenty of room to keep enough packets ahead of whatever's actually in the process of playing, so that it shouldn't need to keep pausing every few seconds or every few moments to re-buffer the storage.
The other solution, of course, is to download the video into your computer's hard-drive and have it in your own files whenever you'd like to see it - and if I were the suspicious type, I might suspect that YouTube has purposely done something to make sure we aren't going to thoroughly enjoy these videos unless we do pay them to let us download a copy into our own computers to keep on file. In other words, and I say this because nothing I've done so far to "cure" this problem has completely succeeded in fixing it, maybe we're trying to fix something that can't be fixed at our end of the system because it isn't happening as a result of anything incorrectly set inside our own machines. Maybe they've made sure there's nothing we're going to be able to do about it,
or alternatively, maybe our incoming signals really are being choked down by some method which doesn't show up in the available tests at our disposal for discovering that. By a process of elimination, we should eventually discover what is doing this and why. So far, I've spent a lot of time discovering things
that haven't entirely fixed the problem, but I have reduced it quite a bit. Which, of course, isn't the same thing. It's still happening, and it's still a pain in the ass.
If Google's YouTube is going to have all those videos for viewing, then one would assume they would actually be viewable for more than a few seconds at a time. But then it's common knowledge that Google has almost never finished most of the projects that it has begun, at least not completely. They've got things ten years old that are still considered by them to be 'in beta' meaning under testing, and yet they've had the unsuspecting computer users trying to use those things and wondering why their experiences with them left a whole hell of a lot to be desired. Those things are left "in beta" of course most likely so that Google can avoid any responsibility for problems with them by simply saying that these are still in beta and not yet ready for 'prime time' and therefore are being used completely at the user's risk. But that user's risk bit could also apply equally to something that had actually been fully finished off, if only they hadn't stopped work on it for coffee or lunch and never came back. If us Joe Lunchbuckets of the world behaved that way, there'd be a whole hell of a lot more unemployment, and deservedly so.
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