How to Solve 'YouTube not Working on My Computer'?

Overview

YouTube maybe your main video content source and you will feel frustrated if suddenly the YouTube not working on your computer, Mac or Windows. Now the following article just lists the top four feasible solutions to help users to get YouTube working again on your computers.

YouTube not working on computer issues reported by users often include YouTube not loading on your computer, black screen issue, video out of sync with audio, YouTube video buffering, etc. The following solutions may work out for any one of the above issues.

Internet Connection

Not only watching YouTube video, but also watching any online video needs a enough bandwidth. If your internet speed can not meet the requirement for watching YouTube videos online YouTube videos may not load or keep buffering or freeze. Solutions to this: You can close other programs which need bandwidth to run to free up the bandwidth for watching YouTube videos or change the YouTube video quality from the high resolution to low resolution, since streaming high resolution YouTube video needs high internet speed and low resolution needs lower internet speed.

Check your browser

If your browser that you use to watch YouTube videos has some problem, the YouTube video may not work on your computer. Solutions to this: Check your browser and make sure your have updated your browser and plug-in(Adobe Flash) to their latest versions. Check and clear your browser cache and cookies

Check your system

You watch YouTube video on your computer, which requires your computer equipped with a high CPU processing power and much RAM space. If not, update your operating system to the latest version, delete any unused program to free up the RAM space.

Download YouTube video

If the above solutions can not get YouTube working again on your computer, another universal workaround is to use a professional YouTube video downloader to download the YouTube video for offline playing on your computer.

• This method does not need you to check your browser, plug-in, free up your RAM space, but only need you to install a professional YouTube downloader.
• This method can solve all YouTube not working issues on your computer, especially when you do not know the exact reason causing the YouTube video playback failures.
• How to choose the right YouTube downloader in view of so many YouTube downloaders from Google search. Well, Allavsoft, as the most professional YouTube downloader, can download any YouTube video with the highest and best possible speed and quality.
• Besides, Allavsoft is a ad-free and virus-free video downloader to support to download videos from 10,000+ video websites as well as from YouTube.
• Furthermore, the downloading operation is very simple and you only need to add the YouTube video URL to Allavsoft and then Allavsoft will help to download the YouTube video to any video format.

Step by Step Guide to Download from YouTube

Make Preparation: Free download YouTube Downloader

Free download the professional YouTube Downloader - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Paste file link

Copy and paste YouTube videos to Allavsoft.

Step 2 Final output format setting (optional)

By default, it downloads YouTube videos to MP4. If you prefer this format, simply ignore this step.

If you prefer other video or audio format, simply click "Automatically Convert to" button to select your desired output format.

Step 3 Start to download YouTube videos offline

Click "Download" button to complete the downloading YouTube videos offline.