Can no longer play youtube videos on my R3.

I'm really not sure what the problem is. Yes i have the latest adobe flashplayer and youtube used to work fine until a couple days ago.

Now the audio the video plays but the screen stays black like its loading the video and the bar that says how far into the video you are is all glitched up.

 

Tried a different browser? Or different drivers?

 

...or perhaps a system restore back to before your last hardware/software upgrade?

 

I've been having issues with youtube also (on the 11x and desktop - both NV). Seems to have started after the last flash update. Disabling HW Acceleration via flash properties seems to help. video link?

 

Try using google chrome. Simple and fast.

 

nvidia's 266.xx series of drivers are an absolute mess.

 

I have the exact same problem as you Knocturne: it started occurring about one week ago following a flurry of installations and updates.

Flash videos fail in IE: Firefox and Chrome work fine. As per your bug, the audio plays but the video [player] appears crashed - and just like your issue I distinctly recall that IE did successfully play youtube vids when i was first using the computer.

I suspect I know what might have triggered this. First thing to register is that both the 32 AND 64 bit versions of IE come installed and at some point I recall installing a beta version of Flash player for IE 64 bit. I must have launched the 64 bit version and hit YouTube when it informed me that IE 64 bit is not yet supported (either entirely or aspects - there was an explanation) and so i gave in to temptation and installed Adobe's beta driver for IE 64 bit.

As I recall that actually worked and I didn't think twice about it. But when I look back I suspect the problems first arose shortly thereafter so there's likely to be some connection. Did you or (any others here) also try IE 64 bit with flash videos and/or install beta versions of flash for that version?

Restoring from a backup is excellent advice of course, Mr Shirt - provided one has actually made an earlier restore point..! My most recent restore point was, naturally, created by the guys who configured my system at the factory! I have not been able to make a backup yet due to another issue I have had: whilst running the backup to my external Iomega drive it repeatedly fails mid-way when drive appears to get disconnected?! But that's an entirely seperate issue i'll have to search the forums for.

Since I've installed plenty of apps I'm rather unwilling to nuke the lot and so I too am hoping for an explanation and a fix to appear here... In the meantime FireFox and Chrome remain unaffected so this is not a showstopper for me.

I think I'll reinstall both vers of IE.
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Stick with firefox. In the past also, when I reformatted, I found that you have to update flash, shockwave, AND java. Not sure why the last two, but that's what sparked it for me (in no particular order)

GL!

 

Fixed for me, Knocturne!

I was considering a reinstall of IE 32 + 64 bit when I discovered Microsoft's Fixit utility. Was sceptical but I ran it and it raised two issues:

[1.] Data Execution Prevention disabled
[2.] Disk space allowed for temporary Internet files isn't optimized

I ran the fixes and, voila!

I didn't test any IE flash vids yesterday so I can't be 100% sure that either of the two Fixit issues identified above eliminated the issue - but I suggest you give it a go.

Note: I mean it's fixed on IE 32-bit: I'm not going near IE 64-bit again for now...

BTW issue [2] was because I set my Temp Internet files disc space to the max (1024 MB) - which is presumably not considered 'optimized' !!!

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M17xR3 | Stealth Black | 2630 cpu | 6 gb ram | 460M gpu | (2 x 320gb) RAID 0 hd | Blu-ray read | Win 7 Ultimate | Carry Case: Not Included

 

I had the same problem in both Firefox 4 beta 11 and the latest Google Chrome after the latest Flash update to 10.2. After some research, I found many people recommending right-clicking on the video, choosing "Settings" from the list, and then unchecking the box marked "Enable Hardware Acceleration." That worked.

It appears to be a issue with the latest Flash player. I also had the problem on my desktop PC with an ATI Radeon HD 5850, so it isn't limited to one card and driver set.