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plemelin1 Author

Level 1

2 points

Youtube video turns into a black screen randomly

My youtube video will randomly turn into a black screen. I can still hear audio. I am able to click on other places in the video and even turn the video to full screen and the video display will come back on. But it will randomly turn to black at weird times. It usually happens about 1 or 2 times in a 2 minute video and is getting really annoying.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 6, 2015 9:27 PM

21 replies

May 8, 2015 4:24 PM in response to LLC333

Me too, it's on chrome and safari, and it is randomly...

On my Windows PC it doesn't happend, Apple have to fix it.

AJ 2010

Level 1

15 points

May 8, 2015 4:26 PM in response to LLC333

You can go to the Advanced preference in Safari and check the Show develop in menu bar box. Once you do that, go to Develop in the menu bar and change the user agent to Firefox Mac which should force Youtube to use Flash instead of the HTML5 player.

May 9, 2015 4:50 AM in response to AJ 2010

Yeah, it worked to me, but Apple needs to fix that, flash eat's battery... 😟

Sep 10, 2015 10:23 AM in response to plemelin1

I am also facing the same issue with Mid 2015 Macbook Pro.

I have also uploaded the video on youtube to get more help.

Please take a look. Are you all facing the same issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pQ_LNYc66c

Nov 28, 2015 7:57 AM in response to dev.bhalgama

I too have just started having this problem on my 6 month old Mac Book Pro 13". My screen will randomly turn black while watching Youtube videos. If I move the mouse the screen will reappear for a random period of time, sometime a few seconds, sometimes longer. This only happens when in full screen mode. I have tried all the solutions given in this thread and none have worked.

larry858

Level 1

8 points

Nov 26, 2016 9:02 PM in response to Linc Davis

Amazing! The Flash reset worked for me! Thank you!

Youtube video turns into a black screen randomly