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MarkJohnson

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I can't watch youtube videos anymore. I get my usual message about not having adobe flash player installed for a quick second or two, but now it gives me an error message about not having supported player. I've been watching videos just fine for a very long time without flash player installed. I gave up on it after getting so many viruses (sp).

The message says, "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our FAQ about HTML5 video"

when I go to the FAQ I get this:

YouTube HTML5 Video Player

You are in a trial for HTML5 video on YouTube. Some users of supported browsers are automatically entered in to the trial. If you wish to leave the trial, use the link at the bottom. HTML5 is a new browser technology that allows us to show videos without the Flash plugin.
Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we're working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.

Supported Browsers

We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:

Firefox 4 (WebM, Available here)
Google Chrome (WebM)
Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here)
Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (h.264, Available here, WebM support avaliable here)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)

Notes

Fullscreen support is partially implemented. Pressing the fullscreen button will expand the player to fill your browser. If your browser supports a fullscreen option, you can then use that to truly fill the screen
If you want to find videos with WebM formats available, you can use the Advanced Search options to look for them (or just add &webm=1 to any search URL)

Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!)

Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5
If you've opted in to other testtube experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player (Feather is supported, though)

What does my browser support?

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Video tag
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h.264
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WebM

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You are currently in the HTML5 trial.

It says I don't have h.264 support only. I downloaded the latest drivers for my HD 6670 and still get the message.

any clues what happened in the last few days (new video card was last few days and a newer one to arrive tomorrow (HD 7750).

-=Mark=-

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Your video card has nothing to do with it. What matters is:

-do you have flash installed (the most popular way to see videos)? You already said no to that, so your only other option:

-do you use a web browser that supports HTML5 and the video codecs youtube can serve?

So what browser and which version of it are you using?

For the record, I've had Flash installed for numerous years on all our PCs and we've never caught anything.

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Your video card has nothing to do with it. What matters is:

-do you have flash installed (the most popular way to see videos)? You already said no to that, so your only other option:

-do you use a web browser that supports HTML5 and the video codecs youtube can serve?

So what browser and which version of it are you using?

I use Firefox, the latest up to date edition. 10.0.2

I also fired up ie9 and even used the update links from the FAQ and still no go.

I multi-boot and have have 3 machines and all refuse most youtube videos.

It's been working fine util recently. nothing has changed but a few updates and an upgrade from a hd5670 to a 6670 (I gave my 5670 to my sister)

For the record, I've had Flash installed for numerous years on all our PCs and we've never caught anything.

Can't argue with luck I guess. I get them every so often. mostly just adware. But since removing flash It has decreased significantly. My friends/family get them religiously. but since they have abandoned flash, things are a little smoother. They got used to it after Apple banned flash player on the iPad cause of all the malicious programs. even after the hundred or so updates Adobe applied to flash, Apple still bans it.

What kind of security do you use to avoid such infections. I've been working on computers for years and haven't found a way to avoid them. I have reduced them significantly by practicing safe surfing, but only on my main rig. my others I am not so cautious and get them every few months or so and minors adware ones almost daily.

Not sure what else to try? I just ran driversweeper/ccleaner and cleaned the video drivers and reinstalled again to be safe, but still nothing? my two best reductions are through no adobe and adblock plus so there are no ads at all on the screen to click on by mistake to cause infection.

Thanks for the help

-=Mark=-

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If you don't want to use Flash player in your regular browsers, think about installing or using a specific browser (with Flash plugin installed) just for that purpose. I currently use 3 browsers, with Pale Moon as my standard one, and then use IE9 and Chrome for specific purposes. In my example, I use Chrome just for Google related things like Youtube, + or Gmail.

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I don't really see why it's not working as you have modern browser versions :unsure:

What kind of security do you use to avoid such infections

Barely anything. We're using plain old Windows 7 x64 installs, with UAC untouched and such. The kids have regular user accounts. We mainly use Chrome as a browser, and Firefox as a 2nd choice. The kids' PCs have MSE on them (mine has no AV). We have a router running DD-WRT (firewall is disabled altogether on all the PCs). And we keep updated. The one and only thing I do to keep us safe on the internet (and because it's useless garbage I don't want of on my PC) is not to install the Oracle Java JRE. We really haven't done anything in particular to be very secure in any way, and the last malware we've caught dates from the XP pre-SP2 days. Even at work we basically never get anything. I'm not even sure how people even manage to catch malware these days.

TL;DR: Nothing.

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I played around a little more and I was looking at a certain uploaders videos I play a lot and noticed a few of his won't play anymore either, but most of them do play fine. I think it must be something at youtube's end. maybe it is a blocked video, although it plays with flash player in my linux vm.

This is really strange that some are getting blocked and not others, and blocked ones play fine if flash is installed.

I even setup a fresh install of win 7 in a vm and have the same problems. I even tested before windows updates and after with no changes at all.

Maybe youtube is switching all of their videos back to flash only? lol

@Coffeefiend

you have to be the luckiest person on the planet. especially with kids that don't get infected. My uncle and his four kids and can't keep it clean for a week. It's so bad he doesn't call anymore unless the machine is unusable. He just lets it run slow and never turns it off or it takes ten-plus minutes to start back up. lol

@Tripredacus

I had so much malware jump from one browser to the other that I just use VMs and reinstall the VM if it gets too bad. I learned to make a template to ease the reinstall process. But I have 5 machines and just usally dual boot if I need to. I even made a hackintosh drive for OSX 10.6.8. Haven't tried Lion yet as it looks too tablet oriented still. Same with Windows 8 Beta. It just has a phone feel to it and don't like it on the desktop.

Thanks for the input. I guess I just live with it the way it is and just skip flash stuff or find a same one in non-flash format.

-=Mark=-.

-=Mark=-

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you have to be the luckiest person on the planet. especially with kids that don't get infected. My uncle and his four kids and can't keep it clean for a week.

There's no luck at all. I hardly ever have friends, family or co-worker with virus problems (it's like one with an adware problem every 6 months or so -- and most the time it came bundled with an installer). I used to work at a site with 2000 PCs and it was months between each time we saw a virus. Honestly, your uncle is definitely doing something wrong like downloading malware-infested cracks/keygens and other stuff from shady places or running a very much unpatched system as admin and UAC disabled, or something along those lines. Exactly 100% of the time I've seen people with such problems it fell into one of those simple categories.

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I don't ever get malware on my system and don't use any AV. It's not luck as CoffeeFiend says. I also maintain my mother's and sister's PC and they never get anything either. My sister has 2 young sons. My mom is clueless.

I just make sure to patch their software(Flash, iTunes, Java (they need it for apps), etc) the day the update is released.

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