Hi Pat, On your Snow Leopard Safari try this:
1. Safari > Preferences > Privacy 2. Cookies and other website data: DON'T click 'Remove All Website Data' 3. Click on the 'Details' button 4. Scroll down to & select youtube.com 5. Click Remove button -(removes cache, Cookies, Local Storage) "youtube.com" 6. Click Done 7. Quit Safari Then see if you can play the video Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 04/05/2012, at 6:40 PM, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Sorry, I should have said this is on Snow Leopard. Safari is version 5.1.5 > and is running in 64 bit mode, the Flash Plug-in is version 11.2.202.235, and > the sound is not muted. And some other videos play just fine! > > It finally occurred to me to switch over to the Lion partition, and it works > there - highly amusing, as advertised. > > I haven't been using Lion - decided I would wait for Mountain Lion before I > committed to giving up SL. I only tried Lion because I was interested in > iBooks Author. Tried that and decided it was too primitive and clunky, and > have gone back to SL and InDesign to carry on with my eBook project. > > Thanks very much, Ronni and Carlo, > > Pat > > > > On 04/05/2012, at 10:32 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Pat, >> >> Are you using Lion OS X 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.5? >> And Safari is running in 64-bit mode? >> Click once on Safari.app then go File > Get Info (or Command-I keys) there >> is NO tick in 'Open in 32-bit mode'. >> >> Is your Flash Plug-in version 11.2.202.233? >> System Preferences > under Other - Flash Player click it once: Plug-in >> version 11.2.202.233 is installed. >> >> Also you do have sound turned ON in the Video, you don't have it set to mute? >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.3 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> >> >> On 04/05/2012, at 9:15 AM, Pat wrote: >> >>> I don't watch a lot of videos on my computer, but lately, it seems that >>> some videos play properly and other ones just show a black screen, a >>> progress bar and have no sound. This magic German iPad video is one of >>> those that don't play properly. If I hover my mouse cursor over the tip of >>> the progress bar, small thumbnails of video frames are visible, and when >>> the captions are turned on, they are visible, but still no sound. >>> >>> I would like to know why this is. I do have the most recent Flash player >>> installed. >>> >>> Pat >>> >>> >>> On 04/05/2012, at 8:12 AM, iCloud wrote: >>> >>>> Good morning all! >>>> >>>> >>>> New German iPad. You get the gist, even if you don’t speak German. >>>> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSq7D6aX4dI&feature=youtu.be&t=26s >>>> >>>> You can get the English subtitles by pressing the "cc" on the bottom tool >>>> bar. >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>