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Videos no longer playing in Youtube....help please

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Hi,
I have an old Macbook using version 10.5.8. And in the last three days I can no longer play videos on youtube. The video 'screen' remains black and with no transport controls visible (see attached screenshot). This is happening with every video I look at now. Before it always worked fine. Even my old Powerbook still plays videos (albeit slowly!). My new MacBook Pro is also fine. So it's just this Macbook. I have checked if I need any software updates but none are showing up.
Some help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gordon

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ah yes, I had that in mind actually after seeing someone else mention this yesterday....but haven't had the chance to get back on my other mac (I'm on my MacBook Pro at the moment).

but yes....will give that a try.....thanks for reminding me.

any ideas why this is happening now to people? Did youtube change something recently?
 
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ah yes, I had that in mind actually after seeing someone else mention this yesterday....but haven't had the chance to get back on my other mac (I'm on my MacBook Pro at the moment).

but yes....will give that a try.....thanks for reminding me.

any ideas why this is happening now to people? Did youtube change something recently?
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It's probably Flash, not YouTube. Flash gets updated constantly for stability and security problems. That's part of the reason there is such a push to get rid of it.
 
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Bingo.....look what I found here:

YouTube

I'd been selected automatically to be part of a trial for html 5 which I'm guessing was done just a few days ago without telling me.

At the bottom of the page it says 'leave the html 5 trial' and hey presto...the videos now work.....I will share this on the other forums

Thanks all
 

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