Udemy videos are black on dual monitoring

Hey guys,


I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I am learning stuff from Udemy. I open the video on my second monitor so I do exact things on my laptop screen while I watching the lesson on the other one.

I had no problem even on yesterday! (13.12.22).

Today I sit for studying and saw that Udemy videos black screen and only audio. I saw that new update for Big Sur and Safari came so I thought "Oh it is because of that probably" but even after the update nothing got fixed.


So I searched online and found out that this is the issue about some copyright stuff. Which is interestingly doesn't happen on Netflix or Disney. Only on Udemy??!


If you change your hardware acceleration on Chrome, you may be able to do dual monitoring with the video. But nothing for Safari.

While I searched my problem online I found out that this is an ongoing issue on Mac-Udemy and a lot of people are suffering. Nobody even tried to fixed this for months and months and now it happened to me.


I recently become a part of the MacBook world and it is kinda disappointing to see something like that. People are writing stuff and apple support is only "Yo! Write to Udemy it is not our problem"

Dude this is 100% MAC AND SAFARI problem obviously.

Also it is funny that it didn't happened to me before the update.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Dec 14, 2022 12:23 PM

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Posted on Dec 15, 2022 8:06 AM

The videos have some form of DRM, probably HDCP (HDMI Content Protection); these things can affect not just external displays connected physically, but also Apple TV using Airplay from your mac.

Safari, AFAICT, just uses the built-in system frameworks for video and those honor these content limitations.

I don't think that this is going to change. Non-protected videos play just fine, of course.

In your situation, an easy workaround is just to switch displays. Play the video in the internal display and follow along on the other. I can see how that may be less convenient, of course - for starters, the keyboard position is not ideal.



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Dec 15, 2022 8:06 AM in response to okaaay06

The videos have some form of DRM, probably HDCP (HDMI Content Protection); these things can affect not just external displays connected physically, but also Apple TV using Airplay from your mac.

Safari, AFAICT, just uses the built-in system frameworks for video and those honor these content limitations.

I don't think that this is going to change. Non-protected videos play just fine, of course.

In your situation, an easy workaround is just to switch displays. Play the video in the internal display and follow along on the other. I can see how that may be less convenient, of course - for starters, the keyboard position is not ideal.



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