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agent_s87 Author

Level 1

52 points

What's wrong with YouTube on Safari!!!

Hi guys,

This is just recently!! YouTube on Safari is literally BAD EXPERIENCE!!!

When I choose to play something, it either:

- Play the first 4 seconds and repeat with a black screen

- Play 10-15 seconds as a whole clip instead of the proper lenght of the clip

- It keeps freezing my browser if a video managed to load, it gets stuck A LOT, it plays only part of it and not all of it and it just doesn't work!!

What is going on! I tried all of this uninstall Flash and reinstall and/or whatever!!!

It works smoothly on Firefox, something is wrong with SAFARI!!!

What can I do? anybody with the same issue and found out a solution!!

I can!!

Sul.

Posted on Mar 28, 2012 1:30 PM

40 replies

May 4, 2012 2:16 AM in response to agent_s87

I have the same problem!

Is this a conspiracy or not?

Every embbeded YouTube video plays sound, but no image.

On the Youtube site itself it's the same thing.

Updated Flash player to v. 11.2.202.233

Chrome and Firefox are doing fine and show all.

Mean Apple!

Hillman

Level 1

4 points

May 16, 2012 8:19 PM in response to agent_s87

Thank goodness I'm not alone in this! I've had to switch over to Firefox so I'd stop pulling my own hair out 😠

May 17, 2012 8:41 AM in response to Hillman

This is all because YouTube automatically put us into an HTML5 trial.

Go here and click at the bottom to leave the trial: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Found it out after looking on another site.

Hillman

Level 1

4 points

May 17, 2012 11:23 AM in response to Ursus Major

Yeah, I already logged out of that trial and it made no difference so I'm still using Firefox.

May 21, 2012 1:54 PM in response to Hillman

I'm getting it in Firefox, too. Did you do anything special to get Youtube working in FireFox?

Hillman

Level 1

4 points

May 21, 2012 2:02 PM in response to Bifurcated

Nope. Using Firefox "out of the box" works great. It's starting to grow on me; I may give up Safari entirely.

May 21, 2012 2:11 PM in response to Hillman

It's not the HTML5 trial thing. I don't think it ever was. I thnk there are two distinct problems here. I was never in the HTML5 trial to begin with, and I still had problems. The only fix I have come across so far is to use the following Safari Extension:

http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/

Using that... YouTube is back to normal.

Hillman

Level 1

4 points

May 21, 2012 2:34 PM in response to Jon Corry

After I unchecked 32 bit mode on Safari, You Tube works properly. I also downloaded "Vertical Forest".

Hillman

Level 1

4 points

May 21, 2012 2:35 PM in response to emd3

Worked, thanks!!!

BTW, why the interference?

May 21, 2012 2:52 PM in response to Hillman

Glad it helped.

I never had 32 bit checked...

I was never in the HTML5 Trial...

I reinstalled Safari...

I updated flash…

I disabled all extensions…

I tried all suggestions mentioned in this thread and others…

I tried Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Camino, and a coconut shell with a string attached to it, and all played youtube videos just fine.

The only fix was to install the extension I mentioned above. I am running an up-to-date brand new iMac.

May 27, 2012 11:29 AM in response to Ursus Major

Thanks to @Ursus Major! This solved my problem immediately. Now, why Flash is outperforming HTML5 in Safari is beyond me.

Tatiner

Level 1

7 points

Jul 3, 2012 9:15 AM in response to agent_s87

It isn't ;-/ Videos stopped working a couple of weeks ago in the latest v. of Firefox.

Tatiner

Level 1

7 points

Jul 3, 2012 9:16 AM in response to agent_s87

Tried it last week, but I'm not in the trial.

Jul 4, 2012 11:33 AM in response to Ursus Major

THANK YOU!!!

Trym1234

Level 1

0 points

Jul 7, 2012 7:49 AM in response to Jon Corry

Hey Man!

I tried to install the exstension, but it fails installing... What can I do? I am going to flip, I just got my new Mac, this is not going to happen-.-

Safari: 5.1.7

Mac OS X: 10.7.4

What's wrong with YouTube on Safari!!!