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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: vaskidmark on November 23, 2010, 09:06:01 AM

Title: YouTube is not there
Post by: vaskidmark on November 23, 2010, 09:06:01 AM
All I get, if I'm lucky, is a big blank black space where the video part is supposed to be.  The border & other parts are there, but no video-part.

If I'm unlucky I just get a blank space.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zip.

And yet there are times when I go to a video linked at some site and there it is, in all it;s splendor.

Being a non-geek, I need to know 1) what's busted/broke/not working, and 2) what can I try short of opening up the back of the box of wires and pulling something out to put a new something in?

THanks.

stay safe.
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on November 23, 2010, 09:40:43 AM
Sounds like flash is not installed, maybe?

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: Marnoot on November 23, 2010, 10:22:52 AM
Another possibility: Sometimes ad-blocking extensions/plugins block the wrong things on Youtube, resulting in disabled videos.
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: Ron on November 23, 2010, 11:04:37 AM
Along the same lines I've been having a problem with YouTube also.

I cannot watch it in full screen mode, the screen goes black with a vertical green line on the left side. The sound continues playing normal and I can toggle back to the regular view using the Esc button. I can watch videos in full screen mode using WMP with no issues.

Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: grampster on November 23, 2010, 12:40:14 PM
you guys gotta quit trying to look at porn. =D
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: Harold Tuttle on November 23, 2010, 08:05:56 PM
beta HTML 5 issues?
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: vaskidmark on November 23, 2010, 08:22:31 PM
Don't know what it was.

Turned the machine off, opened it in safe mode & ran all the anti-this&that.  It works again.

stay safe.
Title: Re: YouTube is not there
Post by: Ben on November 23, 2010, 08:50:46 PM

Turned the machine off, opened it in safe mode & ran all the anti-this&that.  It works again.

Welcome to the brotherhood of IT professionals!  :laugh: