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rb_rutledge
rb_rutledge asked in Computers & InternetInternetYouTube · 9 years ago

Black screen on youtube videos?

I'd say about 80% now of the youtube videos I try to play are black screen. They load, I can hear them, but I cannot pause, play, mute, rewind, stop, or see the video. It started off with only a few so I figured they were just "dead links" or corrupted files, but keeps increasing. I'm running Win7 64 bit, IE9, and AVG for the AV/Firewall. I've cleared my brower's settings several dozen times, rebooted, updated, turned my firewall off, and even killed popup blockers and AV to no avail. I've googled, and it seems this problem is common to Firefox, Chrome, and the Apple Browser as well, but it seems nobody out there has any good solutions yet. The help seems to want you to try all of the above... which is exactly what I would say, if I hadn't tried it already... any other suggestions?

Update:

I never thought about updating my drivers... I'm trying that now... also, try to spam advertize and YOU WILL BE REPORTED... im just saying...

Update 2:

Driver's were up to date, I usually stay on top of that... so drivers are not the issue here either.

Update 3:

It seems you're right, Youtube added a new feature: "Youtube Video Discovery". Seems that they SHOULD have named this, "Youtuve Video HIDER".. lool.... ok we have to wait on the engineers to fix this... TYVM

Update 4:

Here's what Youtube recommends, except it doesn't work (it's a fantasy... like me telling you to get into your teleporter to get to the other side of the world in less than a second)

Disabling hardware accelerated video playback

While we work with Adobe to smooth out a few kinks, the following steps will allow you to disable hardware-accelerated playback, and get back to watching YouTube videos:

1.Right-click in the middle of the video below (or on the on the video you're having issues with)

2.Click Settings (no such thing appears. there's a whole different menu and nothing remotely similar to this is offered therein)

3.Click the left-most tab (again, no such thing appears)

4.Uncheck the 'Enable hardware acceleration' checkbox to disable hardware acceleration. (again, you were just having a dream... there's no such option available...)

5.Refresh the page

If you're having trouble with the above workarounds (the 'Settings' link is

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  • ?
    9 years ago
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    Youtube is updating how videos are being searched and these are probably related bugs.

    Source(s): http://2slick.com/web/youtube-problem-%EF%BF%BD%EF...
  • rb_rutledge
    7 years ago

    Actually, Youtube found out they were having server firewall issues and fixed it. I don't care if you had TODAY'S Adobe Flash Player back then--it WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED....

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