Guest samnewbie Posted February 23, 2008 Posted February 23, 2008 Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set parental controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on "You Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. However, if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music even though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental Controls. All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking for the relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. I have tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another post on this site but that made no difference. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Many thanks -- SAM Quote
Guest Joe T Posted March 2, 2008 Posted March 2, 2008 Sam - Did you have any luck with this issue? I have the same issue and I can not find a fix for it. Thanks. "samnewbie" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set parental > controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on "You > Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. However, > if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music even > though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental Controls. > All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking for the > relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. I have > tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another post on > this site but that made no difference. > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. > > Many thanks > -- > SAM</span> Quote
Guest samnewbie Posted March 2, 2008 Posted March 2, 2008 Hello, no, no luck with this issue. No-one has replied. It's obviously a problem which isnt just confined to our computer though! Any help from anyone else would be much appreciated. -- SAM "Joe T" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Sam - Did you have any luck with this issue? I have the same issue and I can > not find a fix for it. Thanks. > > "samnewbie" wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set parental > > controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on "You > > Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. However, > > if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music even > > though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental Controls. > > All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking for the > > relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. I have > > tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another post on > > this site but that made no difference. > > > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. > > > > Many thanks > > -- > > SAM</span></span> Quote
Guest Rob Posted March 3, 2008 Posted March 3, 2008 I am having the same problem so anyone with a solution to this issue would be a great help. "samnewbie" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello, no, no luck with this issue. No-one has replied. It's obviously a > problem which isnt just confined to our computer though! > > Any help from anyone else would be much appreciated. > -- > SAM > > > "Joe T" wrote: > <span style="color:green"> > > Sam - Did you have any luck with this issue? I have the same issue and I can > > not find a fix for it. Thanks. > > > > "samnewbie" wrote: > > <span style="color:darkred"> > > > Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set parental > > > controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on "You > > > Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. However, > > > if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music even > > > though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental Controls. > > > All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking for the > > > relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. I have > > > tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another post on > > > this site but that made no difference. > > > > > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. > > > > > > Many thanks > > > -- > > > SAM</span></span></span> Quote
Guest FromTheRafters Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Perhaps your 'medium' setting applied to his account, filters according to content. You may be confusing the block site feature with the filter content feature of parental control. The help file may actually help here. "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:229E6D8D-138D-4784-9A60-82D3EE56AD29@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> >I am having the same problem so anyone with a solution to this issue would >be > a great help. > > "samnewbie" wrote: ><span style="color:green"> >> Hello, no, no luck with this issue. No-one has replied. It's obviously >> a >> problem which isnt just confined to our computer though! >> >> Any help from anyone else would be much appreciated. >> -- >> SAM >> >> >> "Joe T" wrote: >><span style="color:darkred"> >> > Sam - Did you have any luck with this issue? I have the same issue and >> > I can >> > not find a fix for it. Thanks. >> > >> > "samnewbie" wrote: >> > >> > > Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set >> > > parental >> > > controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on >> > > "You >> > > Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. >> > > However, >> > > if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music >> > > even >> > > though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental >> > > Controls. >> > > All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking >> > > for the >> > > relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. >> > > I have >> > > tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another >> > > post on >> > > this site but that made no difference. >> > > >> > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. >> > > >> > > Many thanks >> > > -- >> > > SAM </span></span></span> Quote
Guest samnewbie Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Hello. Thanks for help. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that perhaps the medium setting will filter according to content - as far as I am aware that is precisely what it is supposed to do! However, that doesnt explain why it wont show videos of the classical singer Andrea Boccelli or eg a modern pop group such as the Hoosiers. I haven't put a block on the total website - in fact I have "allowed" You Tube and chosen a medium setting (which I think equates to a 16+). Any further help gratefully received - it's driving him, and me, mad and I'm inclined to take off all parental control so he can listen to music. However, he is only 12 and I'm aware there is a lot of stuff on You Tube which I dont want him to see. many thanks. -- SAM "FromTheRafters" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Perhaps your 'medium' setting applied to his account, filters according to > content. > You may be confusing the block site feature with the filter content feature > of > parental control. > > The help file may actually help here. > > "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:229E6D8D-138D-4784-9A60-82D3EE56AD29@microsoft.com...<span style="color:green"> > >I am having the same problem so anyone with a solution to this issue would > >be > > a great help. > > > > "samnewbie" wrote: > ><span style="color:darkred"> > >> Hello, no, no luck with this issue. No-one has replied. It's obviously > >> a > >> problem which isnt just confined to our computer though! > >> > >> Any help from anyone else would be much appreciated. > >> -- > >> SAM > >> > >> > >> "Joe T" wrote: > >> > >> > Sam - Did you have any luck with this issue? I have the same issue and > >> > I can > >> > not find a fix for it. Thanks. > >> > > >> > "samnewbie" wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hello. Just got new computer with Vista Home Premium. Have set > >> > > parental > >> > > controls to medium for my son. I am the administrator. If I go on > >> > > "You > >> > > Tube" I can see the videos and hear the music = it all works fine. > >> > > However, > >> > > if my son goes on you Tube he cannot see the videos/hear the music > >> > > even > >> > > though I have put "You Tube" in as an allowed website in Parental > >> > > Controls. > >> > > All he gets is the little circle (or timer) as though it is looking > >> > > for the > >> > > relevant video but, even if we wait ages, the video never appears. > >> > > I have > >> > > tried unchecking the "enable hardware acceleration" as per another > >> > > post on > >> > > this site but that made no difference. > >> > > > >> > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions. > >> > > > >> > > Many thanks > >> > > -- > >> > > SAM </span></span> > > </span> Quote
Guest tmarr Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Youtube partial solution for windows vista parental controls. Crude but effective partial fix. Look at the activity report and the list of recently blocked sites after trying to watch youtube videos on the account with parental controls. You will see a bunch of similarly named websites, which are the actual sites that host the videos on servers. Many have names like v_.googlevideo.com or s2.ytimg.com. I put a bunch of these and some variations into the allowed list (i.e., a.ytimg.com, b.ytimg.com, etc.) You may be able to use wildcards to speed this process, but I couldn't find anything that says you can. Anyhow, once you've taken the 15 minutes or so to do this, go back into the account with parental controls and access youtube. Start clicking on some videos. Some will play right away. Others will not. But if you keep reloading the videos that don't load at first, within a few tries it seems like it will eventually hit one of the websites that you've included in your allowed list. May not give full functionality to the site, but a heck of a lot less frustrating than where I was before I tried this. -- tmarr Quote
Guest Jen Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 I had the same problem with You Tube Not Playing Videos even after I set www.youtube.com as an allowed site. The only way I was able to get it to work was to change Parental Controls under the settings for my son and under the windows vista web filter portion, block web content automatically, choose a web restriction level, and set it to "none". It sort of defeats the purpose of blocks, but you can still set up blocks in the other areas of parental controls and in IE under tools, internet options, content, and enable contents advisor. Quote
Guest C26000 Posted March 30, 2009 Posted March 30, 2009 I took tmarr advise and generated a list of all the possible youtube servers, so you can add it to the parental control and all the youtube videos will play fine. To use it you need to go to the parental control export the current list of Allowed Sites and save it in the desktop , open it using notepad and paste all the content of my file somewhere after a </URL>, then save the file, open parental control again and import that list. I did this with my brother's pc and it works perfect I haven't found a single video that doesn't play. style_emoticons/ if you have any problem with this procedure, email me at c2600a innn.. gmail I just registered into this forum to share the solution that i found +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Servers To Allow.txt | |Download: http://www.vistax64.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11326| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- C26000 Quote
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