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videos appear as a white rectangle on some sites, but ok on youtube, and with Internet explorer

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AlanClark
AlanClark

I can see videos on youtube, but on sites that link to youtube I only get a white rectangle. This problem does not occur with Internet Explorer.

I can see videos on youtube, but on sites that link to youtube I only get a white rectangle. This problem does not occur with Internet Explorer.

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Try to disable the hardware acceleration in the Flash Player.
See Flash videos won't play full screen

Flash "Display settings" window:

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AlanClark
AlanClark Question owner

Searching for "Youtube" will give several technical and rather unhelpful posts regarding this problem. However, if you download Firefox 4 beta this problem will go away (although you will lose any add-ons which are incompatible).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

cor-el
cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Try to disable the hardware acceleration in the Flash Player.
See Flash videos won't play full screen

Flash "Display settings" window:

AlanClark
AlanClark Question owner

Cor-el, thanks for the solution. I have not tried it as I have now switched to Firefox 4.0 which does not have the same problem, but the problem is now solved as far as I am concerned.