Youtube videos won't play through Steam again.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

this is by far one of the most common features of Steam to get broken second only to Steam crashing. Someone shares a video on a steam discussion, I click it, I get 3 seconds of the "video loading" icon and then I have to force-quit Steam as the vain attempt to play a youtube vid on it has frozen Steam.

Is this issue EVER going to get fixed?!

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

Things have gotten from bad to worse.

Now if I try to watch a video (Other than the videos on the Steam Store of course) and the client craps itself I now find after I quit it it won't start again. "Steam Client Bootstrapper" and "Steam Web Helper" stay in the processes section of the task manager and "End Process" and "End Process Tree" does not kill the processes.

I have to restart my rig by holding the power button as by selecting "Shut down" or "Restart" on windows gives me a never ending "Shutting Down" screen.

This hard-resetting can damage a Windows system as data loss or corruption can occur meaning loss of files or even the need to format the boot sector and perform a clean reinstall of Windows due to OS corruption. NOT ACCEPTABLE VALVE!!

Steps to reproduce: (happens 100% of the time for me)

1: Start steam.
2: try to load either your own youtube video or a video in the discussions.
3: Steam freezes.
4: ALT + F to kill the client.
5: Invincible processes still in my task manager preventing Steam to be restarted.
6: Power button has to be held down for windows to shut down as the invincible Steam processes stop proper shutdown, or restart from occuring.

Fix your client Valve, this is beyond a joke!!!!

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Pretty much why I dont watch any videos on forum, bugged since I remember.

Personally I dont have problem with the gameplay videos under the shops page, but user videos on forum or guides have frozen like a gazillion times.

I switched since 3 OSes, upgraded my PC several times, I use the most superior codecs known to mankind and it still happens.
This part of Steam must have been designed by Bethesda or what

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

The store page videos work as steam uses them to show case what they want us to buy. That will always work and if the store vids go down they will do anything to have it fixed in an hour.

As they don't grab cash with the youtube videos they have no intention of fixing them ever!

[ReBoot]

Habe you guys tried turning off hardware acceleration?

[Lanterndogen]

lol

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Habe you guys tried turning off hardware acceleration?

Thanks buddy!

That seems to have worked (for now), but I can not fullscreen the vids.

I just get a "Fullscreen is Unavailable" error pop over the fullscreen icon and the "Learn more" says the uploader has probably prohibited fullscreen playback. Switching to same vid on youtube and fullscreen works like a charm.

Has Steam blocked the ability of viewing videos other than the ones on the Store Pages froom fullscreening?

I remember some years ago that fullscreening youtube videos worked fine in the Steam Client.

I have converted my PC into a home-theater and it is annoying wataching an 8" video on a 27" screen from 8ft away.

[NnyDa]

Yes

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

Originally posted by Tu Macho:

Yes

I wonder what was their reason for this?

[ReBoot]

Wait til the updated CEF goes mainline amd see if things become better afterwards.

[Peekofwar]

You know what's even worse, is that it's happening.... again, again. The video player loads, but the video itself doesn't, eventually triggering the automatic fail over. I've been noticing this on my own workshop pages.

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[Satoru]

Disable video hardware acceleration