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08-07-2012

Does anyone know how to get You Tube videos to play? All I get is a black screen where the video ought to be.

This happened after the Flash update of 23rd June.

I installed an earlier version of flash and You Tube videos played, but all Flash videos on my PC did not.

I installed the latest version of Flash, which says the bug has been fixed, and all the videos on my PC play, those on You Tube do not.

Does anyone who knows more about computers than I do have any suggestions?

08-07-2012

The problem is now solved. Apparently it is a bug in Real Player which is causing conflicts.

08-07-2012

I have the same problem Rob, how did you solve it?

btw, many thanks for your pm, appreciate it as always.

08-07-2012

This was the solution from someone on the Firefox forum

cor-el has posted an answer to your question on support.mozilla.org:
How do I get you Tube videos to play in Firefox? All I get is a black screen.
https://support.mozilla.org/question...#answer-350290

cor-el wrote:
"You can check for problems caused by a recent Flash 11.3 update and possibly downgrade to Flash 11.2 or 10.3.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/flash...-video-firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/flash-113-crashes

*Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog
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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
*https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/ha...-acceleration/

*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-d...aphics-drivers
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Try to "disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player.
*Video playback issues
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/keep-...shoot-problems

Flash "Display settings" window:
*http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html"

See the answer:
https://support.mozilla.org/question...#answer-350290

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RealPlayer videos on my PC still wouldn't play. I changed the programme to open them to HiDefMedia Player and I have You Tube videos playing, and the .flv videos on my Pc playing.

Hope it works for you, I'm pleased that I was able to fix it, my computer knowledge level is about as low as is possible.