The famous message "WE'RE SORRY THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE"
is most often associated with stupid software that claims it
can virtually "accelerate" video buffering. This includes crap
like GWA, SpeedBit, Trident, Jaton, ATI, Diamond Fire and
Easy Video Accelerator. They all make YouTube behave in
strange and conflicting ways.
Of course nothing "accelerates" streaming video files. Even
the people at YouTube, Google and Macromedia know this,
and write that in their own FAQs. Thus if you have any kind
of "accelerator"...then dump it, burn it, kick it, rip it, trash it,
uninstall it; do everything you can to get as far away from it
as possible.
If you do not have one of those moronic utilities, something
on your computer is interfering with YouTube. Thus, please
consider any of these possibilities:
Not much in terms of playing YouTube vids has changed in
the past 2 years. If anything, all the newer flash players are
causing lots of YouTubers some kind of grief, especially all
8 variations of version 10. It's crazy that there is a 10.0.525,
10.1.218, 10.2.26, 10.2.54, 10.12.10, 10.12.36, 10.15.3, as
well as 10.22.87. You can always count on updates for one
sure-fire thing: software conflicts. I have never strayed away
from 9.47, and many "flashers" still swear by 9.45. Think of
those 2 as Windows XP compared to Vista. Please look at
the "Asker's" comment to this other "Best Answer" of mine:
https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20081125075929AABZpVS
You may also wish to consider these alternate possibilities:
→ Tools → Internet Options → Connections (tab)
→ LAN Settings (which is the very last button)
→ uncheck "Automatically detect settings"
→ Tools → Internet Options → Advanced (tab)
→ scroll down until you reach "Multimedia"
→ check-mark all but "Show image download placeholders"
Two people have written to me saying after they got rid of a
certain software, things seemed to work all right afterwards:
One person got rid of his "nVidia" drivers; the other trashed
his "ad blocking" utility. Do you perhaps have either or both
of these on your computer?
I've saved my favorite other solution for the end. YouTube is
at its best when you clear all your "Cookies", "History" and
"Temporary Internet Files". My cool "CHTIF" triple-cure has
resolved hundreds of people's problems, so why not yours?
Close out YouTube, do the following, then shutdown/reboot:
Internet Explorer 6:
→ Tools → Internet Options
→ Delete Cookies → OK
→ Delete Files → OK
→ Clear History → Yes
→ OK
Internet Explorer 7:
→ Tools → Internet Options → Delete...
→ Delete files → Yes
→ Delete cookies → OK
→ Delete history → OK
→ Close (browsing history window)
→ OK
Mozilla Firefox
→ Tools → Clear Private Data
[x] Browsing History
[x] Download History
[x] Saved Form and Search History
[x] Cache
[x] Cookies
→ Clear Private Data Now
I hope my multiple answer is helpful for you. If you are able
to determine the "cause" and its "cure", I would appreciate
it if you could please let me know, either by clicking on my
avatar or emailing me at "inukjuak90@yahoo.com".
IMPORTANT: ANOTHER POSSIBLE CAUSE IS FIREFOX 3 AND ITS
INTERACTION WITH YOUTUBE'S (GOOGLE'S) "CACHE" SERVERS
THAT REFUSE THE PLUG-IN'S REQUEST FOR VIDEO FILES. THIS
RETURNS A FALSE ERROR CODE TO YOUTUBE SAYING THAT IT
CAN'T FIND THE VIDEO, OR THAT THE REQUEST DOESN'T MAKE
SENSE.
OF COURSE, THE VIDEOS ARE REALLY THERE, BUT FOR SOME
STRANGE REASON, YOUTUBE RETRANSMITS THE ERRONEOUS
CODE TO WE'RE SORRY THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
WHAT'S THE SOLUTION? NOBODY KNOWS, BUT IT IS A FIREFOX
AND YOUTUBE ISSUE. IF YOU'RE USING FIREFOX 3, YOU MIGHT
WANT TO TRY A DIFFERENT BROWSER.
One person recently emailed me that he downloaded/installed a more
recent version of DirectX and that it apparently solved all his problems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en
An alternate solution which you might want to
try is to attach "&fmt=18" to the end of a URL:
if the URL is
http://www. youtube. com/ watch?v=KQ4v9ZSIL3U
change it to
http://www. youtube .com/ watch?v=KQ4v9ZSIL3U&fmt=18
Do you see a difference in the 2 videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4v9ZSIL3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4v9ZSIL3U&fmt=18
If this cool trick seems to resolve the problem,
the quickest way for you to do this every time
is to → type &fmt=18 anywhere → highlight it
→ hit CTRL with C together → and then every
time that you want to use the &fmt=18, press
CTRL with V together.