youtube video not playing in safari

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youtube video not playing in safari

anyone know why this happened recently - one day it worked, the next day it didn't - i notice it works only if i follow a link form another site to you tube, then THAT video plays once!!!! and if it try another video it wont work again - i read that youtube changed something ???? is it a flash setting on safari???? driving me nuts!

macbook 2.0, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 15, 2011 12:10 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 15, 2011 1:35 PM in response to peeta101@aol.com

Same Problem here and in need of a fix.

I have 2 Macbooks. My office Macbook is not affected, but the one that my family uses at home is.

Any help? I've tried installing the most recent version of Flash (10.2) and the Safari Plug-Ins which come bundled to no avail.

Thanks!

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Answer 2

Mar 15, 2011 2:22 PM in response to Merged Content 1

Hi,

Try this: change your safari to 32-bit mode. I had the problem a while back and that fixed it.

To do this go to Safari in finder and right-click to get info then you can check the 32-bit box.

Message was edited by: GeorgeKaplan

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Answer 3

Mar 15, 2011 3:22 PM in response to peeta101@aol.com

note that Adobe Flash player did get a very small update recently from version .26 to .33 to fix minor issues..
I thought I had the most recent until I checked recently.

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Answer 4

Klaus1

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Mar 15, 2011 4:01 PM in response to peeta101@aol.com

This seems to be some kind of explanation:

YouTube: 'I can hear audio but can't see the video (black box, weird scroll bar, etc.)'

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?&answer=1209379

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Answer 5

Mar 15, 2011 7:07 PM in response to peeta101@aol.com

yep - 32 bit mode fixed it - but why would this happen and what does the future hold for running this 32 bit mode ???????? we will see

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Answer 6

Mar 16, 2011 4:18 PM in response to peeta101@aol.com

Hi Peeta101

Glad you got 32-bit to work. I had the same issue a while back and i knew that solved my problem. Unfortunately, I don't know the ins and outs of why that is the case though.

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