738924 - YouTube "An error occured. Please try again later." Large video files.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 634938

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[kaizander]

Attachment: youtube_ff_error.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

I encountered this problem maybe a year ago when I started watching high-resolution YouTube videos. Some of these videos were unable to play; instead the error mentioned above occured: "An error occured. Please try again later."

I discovered that this error occures, when the YouTube video file is 2GB or larger. I determined the file size by downloading the video with JDownloader or Freemake Video Downloader.

I'm currently using FF11, but I met this problem with a whole bunch of older versions as well.
My flash player is up to date!


Actual results:

The error occures, when the file size is 2GB or larger. Here are a few example videos that doesn't work with Firefox. I tried these with Chrome and IE9, which played them just fine.

Make sure to choose the highest quality (sometimes the second highest fails as well, when the file size is still larger than 2GB):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3_CCPzvsUc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6LF9WVl1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaFVr_cJJIY


Expected results:

Well, it should play as well as smaller files ;)

Comment 1

[therube]

DUP Bug 634938 - flashvideos larger than 2 GB don't play