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Dec 21, 2011 10:47PM PST

i cant watch movies on youtube or facebook what can i do?

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Re: can't watch movies on youtube or facebook.
Dec 21, 2011 10:56PM PST

You could go to the cinema or buy the movie on DVD or watch movies on TV (this includes Netflix).

If you want to do it on your PC or laptop, you could start with telling more. Such as:
- what's your OS?
- what happens if you try to do view a movie?
- what changed since it last worked?

Kees

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os
Dec 23, 2011 3:17AM PST

i know i can go to cinema or buy movie! but i mean i cant watch any kind of video file in facebook or youtube any type!! clips,songs etc
my os is windows xp and nothing has changed since last time just a black screen appear instead of video

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Re: no youtube
Dec 23, 2011 10:07PM PST

I forgot one question: what browser are you using. But that isn't so important. The advice anyway would have been to try another browser. On a Windows PC choose from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. All are free. You might need to install Flash into them if it's a fresh download.

If the problem persists, turn off the hardware accelleration in Flash (it might be necessary to do that in all browsers separately) and try again.

Kees

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Is this problem resolved?
Feb 21, 2012 8:15PM PST

If you are having trouble with that, maybe you should download the latest flash player so that you can watch videos online.

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thx
Feb 22, 2012 4:47AM PST

i downloaded latest version but the problem persist, my browser are latest version of safari an fire fox.

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Did you try
Feb 22, 2012 4:50AM PST

the other suggestion Kees offered?

Disable Hardware Acceleration in the Flash window.

Mark