Videos keep pausing

[Dave]

Okay this one is driving me nuts and actually caused problems last week.

It doesn't matter what platform, but when I play videos they sometimes just plain pause for no reason. And it's not always at the same time and it's not every time. Last week it did it when I was playing a song during a wedding reception. (I didn't have the song in my library and it was pretty obscure so YouTube it was!)

I have researched and the only thing I've found was to clear cache. This doesn't seem to have helped.

I'm on Chrome if that helps.

 

[PatrThom]

And it's not just because you're pressing the space bar?

EDIT: This includes the possibility that your space bar might like to tap itself from time to time, i.e., failing keyboard.

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

It’s happened on both my desktop and my laptop. I’m not connected to any Bluetooth item. I’m thinking it might be a Chrome app but I haven’t figured out which one.

 

[GasBandit]

It’s happened on both my desktop and my laptop. I’m not connected to any Bluetooth item. I’m thinking it might be a Chrome app but I haven’t figured out which one.

Have you tried running chrome in safe mode/incognito mode to see if it still happens, or is it too intermittent to reproduce in this fashion?

 

[Dave]

I’ll try that when I get home. I’m thinking the culprit might be a YouTube addon that brings back the dislike count, but I haven’t been able to test yet.