Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Hi all,



Youtube videos were playing fine on my computer this morning. I left it on for about 6 hours came back and they wouldn't work. The page will load but the video box is just black. I've googled solutions but nothing has worked. I've updated Flash/Shockwave players, cleared my browsers cache, installed Google Chrome and tried that which didn't work. When I right click on the video it will just has the Flash player verison and another line that says "Movie not loaded." Btw all the other video players I use work ie (hulu, netflix).



Does anyone have any fixes?

Reply 1 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Netflix uses Silverlight, so disregard that one. But Hulu is flash.



Try completely uninstalling flash, then opening a browser window and go to YouTube. If it's still black something else is up, but it should show a link to download flash... download it, close your browser, install it and try again.



Interesting issue though... never heard of that one.

Reply 2 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Download and install flash again, I think a windows update did the same thing to me. I just installed flash again and it worked fine right after.

Reply 3 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

javascript, firewall rules, adblocking software? Enable js and make sure your firewall isn't blocking youtube / ytimg.com. ABP doesn't mess with flash in FF. Did you try restarting the comp

Reply 4 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Few people are having this problem with the latest update. I was as well, couldn't watch youtube but everything else was fine. I uninstalled flash and reinstalled it. Then uninstalled and reinstalled adblock and flash block. Problem fixed. Though I don't think the last 2 steps were really necessary.



There was a thread about this before though.

Reply 5 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

I am having the SAME issue! Embedded videos play fine though. What's up?



Firefox 3.6 here, everything was working fine yesterday and nothing has changed.

Reply 6 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Just install flash again from adobe's site should fix it fine.

Reply 7 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

I'm still having the problem after uninstalling/reinstalling flash. That stupid update messed something up.



Any more ideas?

Reply 8 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

-> Just to point out:

There is a flash player uninstaller that completely removes it, use that instead a normal "uninstall".



Also, with flash player installed -> clear flash cookies?

The settings manger is on the Adobe website here:

Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Storage Settings panel

Reply 9 : Youtube videos show up as a Black box

Clearing the cache/cookies worked.