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Safari suddenly stopped playing embedded YouTube videos

A few weeks ago my Safari stopped playing embedded YouTube videos. I can right click on the embedded video and watch it directly on YouTube and I can view them embedded in FireFox, but my Safari gives me this message: An error occurred, please try again later. It's been like three weeks now. The same pages will play in my other computers on the same network, but not on my MBP.

I've tried:
emptying the cache
running in 32 bit mode
deleting com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
deleting com.apple.Safari.plist
deleting webpageIcons.db
(I could not find the file com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist to delete)
restarting
repaired permissions

I even updated my OS to 10.6.3 and downloaded Safari version 5.0. Still the same problem.

What am I missing? It'll play YouTube videos, just not embedded ones.

MBP 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.3), problem persists in both Safari 4 and 5

Posted on Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM

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bhaskara

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Nov 17, 2010 1:33 PM in response to Dan-o

@Dan ,

If you tried all the suggestions from the starting of the thread , then there is a last option for you ,

Check the old java links on Terminal ..,

$cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions

$ls -lrt

If

you see other links like " - > " from older versions of java to current JDK ,

Then

unlink the older links

$sudo unlink < ur previous links here ( 1.5 or 1.4 ) >

quit safari and reopen again ,

It worked for me on my own research ,

🙂

Jan 24, 2011 6:55 PM in response to bhaskara

I found the fix at:

http://macintoshprofessionals.com/2010/03/youtube-error-message-safari-4-0-5/

It also works for Safari 5

"To fix the YouTube problem I went on YouTube’s forum areas and asked what was going on. Others reported it too, and the 3rd answer was the fix:

Open Safari preferences
Click on the Security button
Click on the Show Cookies button under the Accept Cookies area.
The next window has every cookie saved. Click on the Search field, upper right corner.
Type in YouTube. This should reduce the list to less than a page.
Click on Remove All.
Click on Done.
Make sure the 3rd button “Only from sites I visit” is the one selected.
Close Preferences. YouTube videos should play properly now."

It worked for me.

iMac 27"
OS 10.6.6
Safari 5.0.3

Chris

Louiecat

Level 1

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Nov 18, 2011 12:23 AM in response to EricJohnson68

Thanks Eric...

I just found myself with the same problem!

Your fix ...... was a quick FIX! 😉

Apr 6, 2012 8:43 AM in response to Christopher Rutty

I have been struggling with embedded YouTube files freezing Safari since moving to Lion last year. This fixed it instantly and easily. Thanks so much! The only change is that with the current version of Safari, go to the Privacy tab in preferences (instead of Security) and click on "Details" to bring up a list of cookies.

HACKINT0SH

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Apr 8, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Louiecat

I'm a bit confused here. If a user simply does the Safari Reset option, which is one of the first things to try when trouble-shooting, then there would have been no need to get this far in trying to solve the issue with preferences.

Philscbx

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Dec 4, 2012 12:14 AM in response to HACKINT0SH

HACKINT0SH wrote:

Safari Reset option, which is one of the first things to try when trouble-shooting,

I'm Going To Try This - I'm tired of all other complex chaos.

I'll be back if this works that simple.

I used to do this on the older PB.

Thanks for the TIP

Philscbx

Level 2

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Dec 4, 2012 12:53 AM in response to Philscbx

Philscbx wrote:

HACKINT0SH wrote:

Safari Reset option, which is one of the first things to try when trouble-shooting,

I'll be back if this works that simple.

Thanks for the TIP

RESETTING SAFARI WORKED

Unbelievable - Although I had to do the step twice - went to video embedded link- Wala it Works Now.

THANKS HACKINT0SH

Philscbx

Level 2

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Dec 4, 2012 3:41 PM in response to Philscbx

WHOOPS the wrong portion of Link was posted above.

Just thought I'd follow up to say - Day Two - Embedded Video's Still working - Impressed Yes.

RESETTING SAFARI WORKED

The other Thread that had the same problem follows -

THANKS HACKINT0SH https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3976642?answerId=20483869022#20483869022

Feb 17, 2015 5:07 AM in response to goChickenboy

Hi, the same happened to me.

I'm quite impressed with the huge efforts that Apple has been made lately to annoy and upset their users.

As OS develops, more and more **** is added, and old but great stuff is removed.

What kind of stupid strategy are they into????

With the apple "boom" after the success of iPod's and iPhones, they forgot about the old and proud users and start thinking more "windoze" making our lifes impossible.

Don't screw with us!!!! keep us happy, WE make apple the best.

Safari suddenly stopped playing embedded YouTube videos