Youtube videos won't play any picture, Shockwave Flash Crash

I'm using Chrome and I can't get youtube videos to play. This happened completely randomly, I was watching a video and I clicked on another one (this was last night) and the next video it stopped working. So now it's the next morning and I've tried reinstalling Flash multiple times and reinstalling Chrome and using Internet Explorer which still doesn't work. If I do a popout video it freezes for a couple seconds and says "The following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash". Other videos on other websites work perfectly fine but not YouTube which is ridiculous because it's the only one I use. The sound also plays on the videos perfectly fine, annotations show up as well, all at the right time. It loads perfectly fine too. But the bar that lets you scroll through the video doesn't move and the little box that pops up when you scroll over it to show you the time of the video freezes in place, so if you scroll back and forth it all freezes and sticks there.

 

try this! go to the flash site and download the version for non IE then install link. Then in chrome type about lugins into the url bar and press enter. In the top right u will see details... press that then go to the flash section. one of the 2 flash plugins will need to be disabled... it should be the one that looks something like this Location: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll

this will disable chromes built in flash player and use the external plugin.... this can be used to test and see if its ur chromes flash player messing up or chrome itself!

 

Nope, didnt work
but i guess that pinpoints the problem as Chrome. do you know how to fix that? or will I just need to wait for an update from Google...

 

can you try IE and see if its doing the same thing or maybe firefox??

 

Its doing the same thing with IE but I don't use firefox. also, the videos work on the user's page who uploaded it but not on the regular links

 

I also have had the same problems with Google Chrome--seemingly randomly I encounter a Shockwave crash and occasionally YouTube videos will not play in the Chrome environment. Once when this occurred, I checked my Chrome browswer and found that it was not the latest version; when I duly updated it, the problems seemed solved for a while. All other times, rebooting the PC corrected the problems for a while. Unfortunately I do not know of a permanent solution.

PG

 

yea my chrome is up to date and restarting hasnt really helped me at all

 

well i fixed it, i got registry mechanic and it fixed it