YouTube Not Working!

[EarlofCroydon]

I've had this weird problem whereby when I play a YouTube video it appears with a black space where the video SHOULD be, but never is. I have tried to re-install FlashPlayer but it hasn't worked.

Thanks!

 

[simsaladimbamba]

What Mac OS X and browser version do you use?
Have you tried another browser?

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[EarlofCroydon]

I have Safari Version 5.0.3 and Mac OSX 10.6.6

 

[MarkMS]

Do you have any plugins installed that may inhibit Flash from properly working? Something like ClicktoFlash or Plugin Blocker?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I have Safari Version 5.0.3 and Mac OSX 10.6.6

And does the problem occur in other browsers too?
Have you installed ClickToFlash?
Have you tried the HTML5 beta on YouTube > www.youtube.com/html5 ?

Btw, what plugins have you installed for Safari (Menu Bar > Help >> Installed Plug-Ins)?

 

[EarlofCroydon]

Not to my knowledge, no

 

[MarkMS]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I used to have a similar problem with other video services like Hulu and Yahoo. Their videos would never play, but Youtube did. And to make things even weirder, I never had problems if I used Firefox or Chrome.


Anyway, I reinstalled Flash and uninstalled it many times with no luck. I finally was able to narrow it down to some sort of incompatibility between 64-bit mode and 32-bit mode in Flash with Safari. I run everything in 64-bit mode, but I guess Flash was in 32-bit mode or something. I went to the Get Info window of Safari (right click Safari> Get Info) and ticked the "Open in 32-bit mode" and it worked. Now all my videos on all services work.

Hope this helps.

 

[EarlofCroydon]

Hey great! It seems to be working fine now.

Thanks MSMark

 

[hoxley]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I used to have a similar problem with other video services like Hulu and Yahoo. Their videos would never play, but Youtube did. And to make things even weirder, I never had problems if I used Firefox or Chrome.


Anyway, I reinstalled Flash and uninstalled it many times with no luck. I finally was able to narrow it down to some sort of incompatibility between 64-bit mode and 32-bit mode in Flash with Safari. I run everything in 64-bit mode, but I guess Flash was in 32-bit mode or something. I went to the Get Info window of Safari (right click Safari> Get Info) and ticked the "Open in 32-bit mode" and it worked. Now all my videos on all services work.

Hope this helps.

Wow. For a few weeks Youtube hasn't worked, though wierdly embedded youtube did. So I have been using chrome.

right clicked get info on safari in the applications folder and clicked "launch in 32 bit mode" ... and voila!

THANK YOU.

 

[gp1699]

i had this problem last week and now its fixed itself somehow!

 

[CK1Czar]

I was experiencing the same thing. Embedded videos would play, but if I went to YouTube itself, they wouldn't. Working now though