Some help with a Mac?

My MacBook Pro is acting a little weird. Everything works fine, except YouTube videos.

If I click on play, the sound plays fine, but the video does not. Just stays frozen as a still picture.

Thoughts?

It's a fundamental issue with the Mac OS and Flash video, unfortunately. They just don't play nice together.

^^ I dunno if I can agree with that. ^^

I don't have that trouble at all. Not that it's much help, though. Are you watching from YouTube directly, or an embedded YouTube video on another site?

Your Mac needs more cheese.

Is it a Big Mac? I think I could help with that.

They used to work... just stopped.

Tom Heath wrote: Are you watching from YouTube directly, or an embedded YouTube video on another site?

Neither one works.

With Ubuntu Linux, most vids won't play directly on the youtube site. Most embedded videos will. FWIW.

What browser are you using? And is your Flash plugin the latest version?

I've never had this problem, but I have the most up to date Mac OS X, Google Chrome, and Adobe Flash. If you try this combo it's possible it will work for you too?

Also, it's a stretch, but try clearing your browsing cache.

Cleaning the cache didn't do it.

Scott Lear wrote: What browser are you using? And is your Flash plugin the latest version?

Firefox. Actually, I just tried Safari and it works there.

Flash plugin was updated this week (about the time I started having trouble).

Hmmm...

1988RedT2 wrote: With Ubuntu Linux, most vids won't play directly on the youtube site. Most embedded videos will. FWIW.

Mine seems to work with 9.10 - haven't upgraded to 10.04 yet...

akamcfly wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: With Ubuntu Linux, most vids won't play directly on the youtube site. Most embedded videos will. FWIW.

Mine seems to work with 9.10 - haven't upgraded to 10.04 yet...

Hmmm. I'm using 9.04 and Firefox.

Flash version 10.1.85.3 and Firefox

OK, so I uninstalled Flash and re-installed it, cleared the cache completely, cleared all history, still acts the same way.

Thoughts?

Try a different browser? Have you checked for system updates recently? (under the apple on the top left, 2nd choice down)

You 'da man, Sonic!

After the system updates, stuff seems to be working fine.

Thanks man!

Happy to help! It's a Mac, there are really only a few things to try when it is having a problem. Check the system updates every month or so and that keeps it tip top.

Good to know. I'm new to the Mac world.

One of my least favorite parts of the OS X experience is how terrible Flash is.

Whatever browser you're using, get the adblock plugin and a flash block plugin. The former gets rid of ads almost completely, and the latter replaces flash elements with a little icon so it doesn't start playing until you ask it to. Click the icon and the flash plays, so everything still works, but it isn't sitting there chewing up CPU cycles and memory while you're looking at a page in another browser tab.

Also, Chrome is just wicked fast on OS X these days.

914Driver wrote: Your Mac needs more cheese.

This looks fatastic!