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07-06-2011, 09:15 PM
|  | The "G" is for Gustav | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Maryland | |  My Mac just stopped playing Youtube videos
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So I go on Youtube today and I get the black box again. This happened a few months ago for no reason, so after some searching, I switched Safari to 32 bit mode and things have worked fine until today. No we are back to the black box. I updated and reinstalled Flash, re-set Safari, all to no avail. Where it gets strange is that Google Chrome, which I just downloaded, won't play Youtube either, so it looks like it is something besides Safari? Is it the Mac or is it Youtube? Regardless, this is really F'in aggravating and any help is appreciated.
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07-06-2011, 09:56 PM
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07-06-2011, 10:52 PM
| | | | Same thing for me.
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07-06-2011, 10:58 PM
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07-06-2011, 11:24 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | Same thing happened to me today. I thought it was a momentary glitch at the time but after seeing your post I checked again and it still won't work. |
07-07-2011, 12:42 AM
| | | | I'll have to check mine tomorrow. I haven't been on my computer for a while. Darn iPhone does everything that the computer can:P
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07-07-2011, 04:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: :noitacoL | | | Same here, but with Firefox.
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07-07-2011, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by geeza Same here, but with Firefox. | yup. same here.
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07-07-2011, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya Oh how I love PC | I have a PC and it's doing the same thing.
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07-07-2011, 06:27 AM
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07-07-2011, 06:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Youtube does not support IE for Mac, IE6 and certain videos only play in HTML5. That simply means you need an up-to-date browser. Run the software update check, and pay attention to anything in the list (if there is one) that mentions browsing or compressed media playback.
Or maybe you ad-blocked the Youtube player?
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07-07-2011, 07:48 AM
|  | Say something once, why say it again? | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Saint Johns, Michigan | | | Another option that worked well for me was to add Google Chrome, and use that for YouTube videos. It's a very lightweight browser using a different rendering engine than Safari, and is really quick. Just a thought.
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07-07-2011, 07:53 AM
| | The "G" is for Gustav | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Maryland | | | I should mention it didn't work with Mozilla either (or Google Chrome).
Anyway, I found a fix for Safari. New to me, there are these things called extensions you can download. One of them, under "productivity" on the apple site, allows you to select the video format before it plays. For whatever reason, things work again. I don't actually do anything - it just flashes the format right before it plays. Also, I changed Safari back to 64 bit and it still works. I'm sure Youtube will crash again soon. Not sure why we have such issues in this day and age with something so basic.
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07-07-2011, 10:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Quebec, Canada | | | I think there's a problem with youtube itself. It's been a couple of hours since I can't watch any youtube video, on any of my PCs/Mac. And it seems like I'm not the only one dealing with this...
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07-07-2011, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | | | | Please note: recently, Google videos (which play via Adobe Flash Player) whose URL begins with http have stopped playing properly. The work-around is to add an s to http to change it to https which seems to cause the videos to play correctly. I expect that this problem will be remedied in a future upgrade of Adobe Flash Player. |
07-07-2011, 11:55 AM
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Oh, wait. 
Sorry, I couldn't help myself because someone always posts this in tech support threads, without fail.
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07-08-2011, 07:10 AM
| | The "G" is for Gustav | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Maryland | | | Looks like it was a Google problem. Videos played on Chrome, and the URL was automatically directed to the httpS as previously mentioned. Safari still works with the extension and the regular http. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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