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Youtube videos showing up blank??

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by tkd, 2008/03/12.

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    tkd

    tkd Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm having a problem with youtube and explorer. I tried to find out the source of the problem by searching google, and I found this forum. One of the search results was a thread from this site:

    http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=67398

    I seem to be having a very similar problem as this person. The problem in the thread above was solved, but I still didn't understand any of it, so I still don't know how to fix the problem I'm having. what's a parent directory?

    Anyway, I'll try and outline the problem, and what I know:

    I have IE5. Basically, I clicked a video to watch. The title was there, the youtube logo and all the tabs at the top were there. There was also sound, but no video or anything else. The majority of the page was just white.

    As it turns out, if I click on "Tools>Internet Options > Delete Files and all offline content," the video works again... but it only works once. If I leave that page and go back to watch the video again, I get another blank screen with audio only. So basically, I have to delete my internet files every single time I want to watch a video that I've already seen.

    What makes this all even more strange to me is that youtube sites that I've visited several times will only work if i haven't watched any other videos since deleting my cache.

    However, videos that i've only seen a couple of times will show up after deleting temporary internet files, regardless of whether or not i've clicked on another video. But i still have to go to 'internet options' and 'delete files' if i want to watch it a second time.

    So can anyone help me?
     
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    tkd - Welcome to the Board :)

    The thread you referenced relates to Firefox - a standalone browser not related to Internet Explorer.

    Is this a recent problem? Have you been able to view YouTube videos satisfactorily in the past?

    Internet Explorer 5 must be at least 10 years old (guess you are running Win 98) and I doubt that many people here have any familiarity with it at all. Current version is IE 7 and IE 8 is in the horizon (released last week in beta).

    As an aside if you are running IE 5 it suggests that you have not updated or patched your OS for many years. IE 6 is insecure, but that insecurity pales into insignificance when compared with IE 5.

    So first let us know which OS you are running and respond to the two questions above.
     
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    tkd

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    Hi. Yes this is a recent problem... only in the last couple of days. I have Windows 2000
     
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    tkd

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    Well, I think I have some reassuring news. I looked around google again (this time with the search option set to last 24 hours) and it seems that a lot of people are currently having the same problem as me:

    http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080311220227AAKzwnm

    http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080311215807AAjdi8z

    http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=539357

    Is it safe to say that this is a youtube problem, and I don't need to start messing around with my computer?
     
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    PeteC

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    Yes - every indication from the threads you posted. Could be other reasons, but I would leave well alone for now :)

    I checked out a couple of videos there - they played fine on my XP Pro SP3 + IE 7 computer.
     
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