No play controls in Youtube with Safari

Add me to the list folks. Have encountered this problem this morning. Switched to 32 bit mode as advised but are there any drawbacks in doing so??

Youtube's Server Side Problems:
I've found that for any video that doesn't play, go to the channel (by clicking on the poster's name) and it will play from there. This has worked for me 100% in about 20 test cases.

A Clue why Youtube is broken on Safari 64 bit:
Two out of the three of my machines running OS X 10.6.6 and Safari Version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) work with Youtube.

The one that doesn't work has these properties.
The flash link below works in both modes, 32 and 64 bit.
http://www.youtube.com/swf_test.html

32 bit mode works, 64 bit mode doesn't work for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974

In the Activity Window, I see this difference - (... means three lines more of stuff)

(prefixed by http://)
32 bit - works. v8.lscache2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?sparams=id%2Cexpire...
64 bit - broken. v8.lscache2.c.youtube.com/generate_204?sparams=id%2Cexpire...

Hmmm.. videoplayback vs. generate_204

Wikipedia describes html error 204 as:
204 No Content - The server successfully processed the request, but is not returning any content

So, it's server side sending a blank. But why?

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i did everything the only thing that work it's changing The Agent for Safari to 4.1.3...

Same issue here. Changed to IE8 via Develop menu and vids play fine now. Has this REALLY been an off/on issue clear back to 2002 as posted here --- sheesh!

Has this REALLY been an off/on issue clear back to 2002 as posted here (?)

No

same on my macbook at least since 2/19. did the 32bit trick, it works again.

Add me to the list please.

I've been having the same "black box" problem since around feb 17 as well. Youtube videos play fine in the user's channel. I have the same exact problem with chrome though. Used 32 bit mode but the top of the video follows the top of the window as i scroll down and its a bit annoying. Would like a 64 bit solution rather than having to use 32 bit mode.

I was having the same problem and don't really want to switch back to the 32 bit mode. My workaround was using html 5 on Youtube. All the videos work great, no high CPU usage on this machine. Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Shot in the dark, here...

I was wondering if anyone here uses VirusBarrier X5 by any chance? My parents have been experiencing this issue for a little while, and it seems to correspond to the time their VB was updated on 02/17?

I tried enabling the extension "a cleaner YouTube", but as another poster mentioned, this did not solve the problem. I would like to avoid reverting them to 32bit...seems unnatural 🙂

Personally, I don't have this issue - I'm running Safari in 64 bit mode, VirusBarrier X6 and YouTube with Flash, not HTML5 - and see all video player controls just fine.

I don't really see why the 2 things would be related...but I have had some issues in the past when VB updated, namely with the iTunes Store.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Best regards,

Straw

If anyone's using AdBlocker, get rid of it to test again.
Restart your Mac after deletion of the plugin/extension.

Seems to be on the Youtube side. Changing the User Agent worked for me without having to revert to 32 bit mode.

First, unhide the Develop menu, then change the User Agent to something other than Safari 5.0.3--MAC. I set mine to Safari 5.0.3--Windows and the videos play correctly.

To unhide the Develop Menu:
Preferences/Advanced/Check the Box to Show Develop Menu in the Menu Bar

Once that's done, select Develop/User Agent and make selection

Thanks for the fix, GoKayak! Worked like a charm.

Is it OK to leave the User Agent as "Safari 5.0.3--Windows" or is it better to revert back to "Default" when/if YouTube fixes this? And if so, how will we know when?

Thanks,

Straw

Hi Straw

user agent is changed per individual tab or window; each new tab or window is back to default. Same after quitting Safari.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your quick response.

That's a bummer! Guess we just have to hope that YouTube fixes it really soon...

Best regards,

Straw

I agree. I also changed over to the HTML 5, and now all videos work fine.