Slight hitches with running YouTube on Wii Opera?

People are having so much fun with their new Opera betas on their Wiis: viewing pages, posting on forums, commenting on articles, and watching videos on their Ninty consoles, but the road isn’t all that smooth, however, as there are people who are reporting on forums, especially Opera’s, that they’re having erratic YouTube experiences.

Reports vary among the users, but the general consensus is that there are times when YouTube would not work at all in their browser, or it would run for a few minutes and then simply stop, and so on. On the other hand, there are other people whose YouTube surfing went smoothly, which just adds to the confusion.

Some of the speculation of why this happens revolves around the version of Flash that Opera beta is using, and if it’s mismatched to YouTube’s requirements. Another floated, and more plausible, theory is a sort of “memory wall” beyond which the Wii could not handle any more data packets streaming in. One observation is that the erratic problems occur when one of the YouTube ads is in Flash code rather than HTML.

However, like we said, some people find absolutely no hitch, hangup, bump, freeze, or whatnot in their WiiTube viewing. Proof of this is Gamertag Radio‘s godfree playing with his Wii Opera browser, looking at stuff in the Gamertag YouTube page, and listening to streaming music and podcasts. Yeah, it gets confusing, doesn’t it? Why does it work for some and others have to bear with hangups?

No word from Opera, Nintendo, or YouTube about this yet, and it’s all strictly forum talk right now. Hey, it’s a beta, but hopefully, things will improve.

People are having so much fun with their new Opera betas on their Wiis: viewing pages, posting on forums, commenting on articles, and watching videos on their Ninty consoles, but the road isn’t all that smooth, however, as there are people who are reporting on forums, especially Opera’s, that they’re having erratic YouTube experiences.

Reports vary among the users, but the general consensus is that there are times when YouTube would not work at all in their browser, or it would run for a few minutes and then simply stop, and so on. On the other hand, there are other people whose YouTube surfing went smoothly, which just adds to the confusion.

Some of the speculation of why this happens revolves around the version of Flash that Opera beta is using, and if it’s mismatched to YouTube’s requirements. Another floated, and more plausible, theory is a sort of “memory wall” beyond which the Wii could not handle any more data packets streaming in. One observation is that the erratic problems occur when one of the YouTube ads is in Flash code rather than HTML.

However, like we said, some people find absolutely no hitch, hangup, bump, freeze, or whatnot in their WiiTube viewing. Proof of this is Gamertag Radio‘s godfree playing with his Wii Opera browser, looking at stuff in the Gamertag YouTube page, and listening to streaming music and podcasts. Yeah, it gets confusing, doesn’t it? Why does it work for some and others have to bear with hangups?

No word from Opera, Nintendo, or YouTube about this yet, and it’s all strictly forum talk right now. Hey, it’s a beta, but hopefully, things will improve.