Youtube + Chrome = no video?

Mike Rotch

Aluminium Overcast
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Australia
Down under
I've been having more frequent and annoying issues watching Youtube videos using Chrome.

It began a few weeks back and is now almost every video that I get no picture and only audio.

I've tried right clicking and flicking between the default player and the HTML5 player. That used to help, but now makes no difference.

Any idea's on why this is occurring?
 
The same thing is happening to my Windows 7 PC. I don't remember crome not playing YouTube Vids in the past but since about a couple of months ago the same thing has happened to my PC. The Vid will play on my Facebook page but when I go to it @ YouTube, nothing. I grab the link and paste it in Explorer and it works fine.
 
Apparently you guys aren't alone. According to a page on the Google Forums, this should fix it:
To summarise a few things:
Having 2 versions of Flash enabled at the same time can cause issues. Disable either pepflashplayer.dll (Chrome version) or NPSWF32.dll (system version): https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/108086
Try typing chrome:flags into your address bar and enabling "threaded compositing" and "gpu compositing"

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/chrome/ifL98iTMhPs 👍
 
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