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anyone youtube videos have black screen with only audio

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all youtube videos are black for me and only playing audio and when i press pause the picture of the video flashes.

all youtube videos are black for me and only playing audio and when i press pause the picture of the video flashes.

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Separate Security Issue: Update your Adobe Reader Version 2015.016.20039 Note: Other Software is offered in the download.


Youtube currently uses the HTML5 player.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues

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i also see some flashes of video when rewinding of fast forwarding

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Separate Security Issue: Update your Adobe Reader Version 2015.016.20039 Note: Other Software is offered in the download.


Youtube currently uses the HTML5 player.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-common-audio-and-video-issues

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Thank you that fixed it and i read about the HTML 5 player earlier when the videos wouldn't play but html 5 seems to not work for me on my laptop it was working this morning but later on it stopped on my laptop

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But it's working now, yes? Great.

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yes it is