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    youtube messed up

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Scotty H, Feb 16, 2011.

  1. Scotty H

    Scotty H Notebook Enthusiast

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    has anyone else had problems with youtube in the last few days. It wont play the videos now. kind of just glitches and doesnt work?? weird. anyone know how to fix it?
     
    Scotty H, Feb 16, 2011
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    Voodooi AFK for a while...

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    I had this YT issue last year. It was due to my ISP and I was forced to change settings on my end for it to work. I don't remember what I did exactly, however you can google it since alot of people had this issue when I had mine.
     
    Voodooi, Feb 16, 2011
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    Lets not bypass the language filter anymore - thread titles or anything else. See the forum rules on language filter.

    Thanks
     
    BatBoy, Feb 16, 2011
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  4. BrokenKeyboard

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    Funny.. YouTube is acting up for me too!

    I get the audio, but no video.
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Feb 16, 2011
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    newalien, Feb 16, 2011
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    And for those who don't care to read the link:
    1. Right Click on the video.
    2. Select "Settings".
    3. Open the furthest left box.
    4. Disable Hardware Acceleration.
     
    aggiekevin, Feb 16, 2011
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    Flash player 10.2 is acting up on mine too. Youtube videos are black on IE. Can't click on Settings, It's grayed out.
     
    Xsonic, Feb 17, 2011
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    That's hilarious and extremely unfortunate. Mine is now grayed out too but the settings saved so I can view the videos fullscreen.
     
    aggiekevin, Feb 17, 2011
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    Same here, can't play Youtube and any online video streams neither.
    Settings is grayed out so I can't disable hw rendering.

    Any ideas?
     
    csufy, Feb 17, 2011
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  10. BrokenKeyboard

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    Same problems as all of you guys.

    Did they recently update Flash player or something? That must be the cause, as YouTube was working perfectly the day before this started.
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Feb 17, 2011
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  11. csufy

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    Yeah it came with the new flash update...
    Now I managed it to work again.
    Go here, wait for the applet to load then right click on it, click settings and disable hw acceleration.

    Restart browser and voilá! :)
     
    csufy, Feb 17, 2011
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  12. Mozky

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    Ohhhhhhhhh yeaah yesterday it was a bad day beacouse of that adobe flash thingy, only getting sound but not video thanks you so much it works soo good :D
     
    Mozky, Feb 17, 2011
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    Thank you! Worked.
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Feb 17, 2011
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    Weird. Same thing happened to me on my m11x recently as well. Disabled hardware acceleration too and now all is good.
     
    mechaBORED, Feb 17, 2011
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