All of a sudden, all youtube links are just black boxes.

[cbayer]

Using safari. Works fine in Firefox.

Any ideas?

[Stinky The Clown]

1. I'm using Camino and I can't make them show up in DU OPs.

I tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, too. No luck anywhere.

But I can see and play them just fine.

[cbayer]

2. Let me try to post one.

[cbayer]

3. All I see is the black box. Can you see it? BTW, this is one of my favorite songs.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I can see it and it plays just fine for me.

Very strange!

[cbayer]

5. So it's just my playback that has an issue. Any ideas?

How do you like Junior Brown?

[winstars]

6. What machine do you have??? Does it say anything about wrong Flash player or Adobe version being

wrong or needing an upgrade...

On my old G4 last year, all of a sudden I couldn't play Youtube videos. It said my Flash player was wrong. It was a real task to figure out at the Adobe website what exact version my machine needed. I think I was running 10.4.something and there were so many versions to choose from until I sussed it out. I did get it right with some effort after awhile.

It was sort of around the time Steve was catching shit for not "doing" Flash on iPad or iPhone. At the time my experience made me totally agree with Steve about this antiquated method. HTML 5 is here.

So see if your Flash player is working correctly. If you can't see the video upthread, try checking and/or reinstalling the correct version for you rig. I am certainly no expert but if they aren't playing now... it can't hurt... The hard part I think is making sure if you install a new or fresh version, the old or previous version(s) are deleted. It gets sorta Windozee with the uninstall/install thingys. Hence, my love for Macs!!!

[cbayer]

8. MacBook Pro - about 6 months old.

Something similar happened about a month ago and I easily corrected it with an adobe update. The issue is that it seems to be working fine in other browsers this time.

I will try an update later (very slow connection right now) and get back to you.

Thanks so much for your help.

[cbayer]

9. Went to adobe, downloaded the flash player for my system and it all works now.

Don't know what happened, but it's fixed!

[winstars]

10. As an old friend would say, "one in a row!!!" Great news...

[Stinky The Clown]

7. I like the old time quality of the who video!

[REP]

15. That link is HTML5 because I can see it on my iPhone.

[PD Turk]

11. I had the same problem today

I was on my old G5 running Leopard 10.5.8 and all of a sudden, black boxes from youtube, it was the same in Aurora, Firefox and Safari. Came back about an hour later and it was fine.

I'm on my Intel iMac running Lion now and it's running fine

[cbayer]

12. That is really weird. I wonder if there was a temporary issue with the Adobe flash player?

[REP]

13. Adobe is phasing out Flash in all platforms (mobile, desktop, etc)

They're pretty much not supporting it at all.

It's the #2 cause of crashes on OS X (and a huge contributer to #1).

[cbayer]

14. Is there an alternative that I should download?

[REP]

16. Link you posted was HTML5 so no :-)

HTML5 is pretty much standard now.

[cbayer]

17. I have no idea what this means. So, am I ok just sticking with adobe flash player?

[REP]

18. The link you posted above was not Flash. It was HTML5.

HTML5 is a thing like Flash only not buggy. You don't need Flash Player to view HTML5 videos - that's why I can watch them on my iPhone and iPad, like I just did with the video you posted above. You don't need to install anything to watch videos that are HTML5.

You can keep Flash Player, but you won't be using it much, as fewer and fewer people are using Flash to put up videos. Only Flash Player displays Flash content.

[cbayer]

19. So, what the heck happened here?

I posted the link and only saw a black box. Then I reloaded flash and it worked fine.

Coincidence? I am so confused.

[REP]

20. Coincidence.

Wasn't on at the time, so can't tell if Google farted or if you did a Software Update that included Flash and Java and Safari, etc or what but yeah, that's not a Flash video.

[cbayer]

21. OK, REP. Thanks for the help. I had to close Safari to download, so maybe just

closing it and bringing it back up is what solved the problem.

[winstars]

22. Steve was right to keep this crap off our 'phones and 'Pads!!! It will be gone soon...

[cbayer]

23. They are all black boxes again!!!

[hamerfan]

24. Opt out of the HTML5 trial

Go to this site:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

and opt out of the HTML5 trial at the bottom of the page.

[cbayer]

25. Ok, this is hilarious. I went there and I wasn't in the trial, so

I opted IN and now it is working.

[REP]

26. Excellent! That should do it!

[cbayer]

27. Working like a charm, REP.