YouTube videos won't load

Hey there,
I'm getting this too. It happened to me overnight around 4 days ago, which is why I'm here on the forum. Hoping someone else can shed light on this. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Flash but makes no difference. Posted a similar thread in mac-forums.com but haven't had a reply there yet.
For anyone who's aware of this new problem and thinks they can help here's the score:

I have a Macbook using version 10.5.8. And in the last four days I can no longer play videos on youtube. The video 'screen' remains black and with no transport controls visible. This is happening with every video I look at now. Before it always worked fine. Even my old Powerbook still plays videos (albeit slowly!). My new MacBook Pro is also fine. So it's just this Macbook. I have checked if I need any software updates but none are showing up.
Some help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gordon

mach1ne said:

Hey there,
I'm getting this too. It happened to me overnight around 4 days ago, which is why I'm here on the forum. Hoping someone else can shed light on this. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Flash but makes no difference. Posted a similar thread in mac-forums.com but haven't had a reply there yet.
For anyone who's aware of this new problem and thinks they can help here's the score:

I have a Macbook using version 10.5.8. And in the last four days I can no longer play videos on youtube. The video 'screen' remains black and with no transport controls visible. This is happening with every video I look at now. Before it always worked fine. Even my old Powerbook still plays videos (albeit slowly!). My new MacBook Pro is also fine. So it's just this Macbook. I have checked if I need any software updates but none are showing up.
Some help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gordon

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Same here and I am also on 10.5.8, hope the OP comes back here and says on what OS he is.

It is not your Mac as far as I know, I did not install anything and it just does not work anymore, pretty sure it is YouTube.

Subscribing to this thread, hope there's a fix soon. A friend had this happen about a month ago suddenly. She's running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. She also uninstalled then reinstalled Flash & Chrome, made no difference. She's particularly irked because she can no longer get into her own YouTube channel account.

hey all,

guess what I found....youtube have been entering people into trials for html 5 without telling them. It's possible this happened to you too. See here:

http://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

At the bottom of that page you will (probably) see a link to 'Leave the HTML 5 trial'

Click on this link....and BINGO....your videos should now work....mine certainly do.

Good luck

G

mach1ne said:

hey all,

guess what I found....youtube have been entering people into trials for html 5 without telling them. It's possible this happened to you too. See here:

http://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

At the bottom of that page you will (probably) see a link to 'Leave the HTML 5 trial'

Click on this link....and BINGO....your videos should now work....mine certainly do.

Good luck

G

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You know what I find odd about this, I switched to HTML 5 quite a while ago(that's what I think) and had no problems until a few days ago.
It should work in safari 5.0.6
Will try it though.

Supported Browsers
We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:
Firefox 4 (WebM, Available here)
Google Chrome (WebM)
Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here)
Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (h.264, Available here, WebM support avaliable here)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame

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I believe there was something wrong on YouTube, it now works again without doing anything.
I've been on HTML 5 for quite a while, can't remember when I joined the HTML 5 test, worked much better on a Powerbook G4 but since a few days when clicking on links did not work.
Flash on this Powerbook just sux.

Thanks, you all are awesome! I forwarded your information about the HTML5 trial & opt-out page to my friend. Waiting to hear back if it works. Fingers crossed that this finally does the trick.

Hmmm, my friend went to the US version of the link to opt out and it read: "You are not currently in the HTML5 trial. Join the HTML5 Trial"

--which she decidedly did not. Any other ideas to fix this YouTube problem?

Thank you.

This is so frustrating! My friend can get into her Youtube account but cannot view any of her videos or upload new ones. So the Trial Opt-Out didn't help her at all.

Today I tried to look up an address with Google Maps Street View and it no longer works --just a black window! I'm using the latest version Safari, and my Snow Leopard partition.

I also opted out of the HTML5 Trial. That didn't work.
I, heh!, googled the problem and black windows in Safari for Google apps goes back at least to February 2011. Someone on Apple forums said that changing Safari to 32 bit mode helped them. I tried that and no, it didn't work.

I tried to report the problem to Google three times and my report evaporated into the ether --because in order to do so, I had to mark the area in the SOLID BLACK window... Yeh, that'll work. Arrrggghhh!

Update: Works fine in my Mountain Lion partition. Poor, poor Snow Leopard has become an ugly step-cat.