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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
YouTube clips on Hyper-V machines
Error occurred on Windows 7 Hyper-V guest on a Windows 8.1 Host.
If you attempt to play a YouTube video on a direct connection to a Hyper-V virtual machine instance an error will occur:
"An error occurred please try again later"
Vague?!
The suggested list of thing to try is predictably unhelpful.
The problem appears to occur because Hyper-V virtual machines do not have any virtualised sound hardware.
Using a RDP connection to the guest unexpectedly enabled the video to play because the sound was configured in the RDP client to "Play on this computer"
Further infomation here.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2146986/problem-occured-youtube-error.html