Tyler Ferraro asks:
For some reason, Google Chrome won’t play videos for me. I read online that if you delete all your history, it will work, so I tried that but after one play of a video, it didn’t work anymore. The audio plays fine however. It’s just that the video won’t show.
11 Answers -
Anonymous
January 13, 2012uninstall adobe flash player and shockwave player, reboot and reinstall
perhaps this plugin can help
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kbkgnojednemejclpggpnhlhlhkmfidi
FIDELIS
January 13, 2012Hello, what kind of video are we talking about? If it is something like youtube, make sure your flash and java are up to date. Also make sure to clear all the browsing history and specially cache and then restart it. You could also try disabling hardware acceleration.
– go to youtube and open a video to play
– right click on player
– click on settings
– uncheck hardware acceleration
– restart your browser and try playing the video again
thanks for your suggestion it’s really work thanks
September 12, 2012tyler ferraro
January 14, 2012Thanks guys! Helped a lot!
thanks for the update, good luck
January 14, 2012I’ve tried all that you said and yet my video player on ANY site won’t show. I didn’t have shockwave at first and downloaded it but the videos still don’t show, what do I do?
April 10, 2012did you installed java, adobe flash…
or try this
April 11, 20121) on chrome type
chrome://plugins/
2) on the right side click on Details
3) scroll to Flash, then deactivate the ones that comes with chrome and let only macromedia.
This worked!! Thanks!! Just disabled the one located at: C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\18.0.1025.168\gcswf32.dll
And kept the one Enabled that was located here: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll
MUCH appreciated!!
Ryan
May 9, 2012Worked. Thanks! I didn’t find the words macromedia. But I enabled the one that was not enabled and disenabled the other 2. Worked.
May 10, 2012I have three options (either from library, applications, or users) how do i know which to disable or not?
May 19, 2012Thanks, i just have one question since I’m rather confused at this stage, my Flash folder only has 2 files and both of them are the same:
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Version: 11.2.202.235
Location: /Users/MyName/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/NPAPIFlash/Flash Player Plugin for Chrome.plugin
Type: NPAPI
OPTION: Disable
MIME types:
MIME type:
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash
File extensions: .swf
MIME type:
application/futuresplash
Description: FutureSplash Player
File extensions: .spl
Which one(s) do I disable, if any, and is there anything else I can download on my Mac to help?
Thank you SO much!
May 29, 2012Karo
you can uninstall it then check the locations where you think you have the folders. now install again and see which folders appears, now you see which one to disable.
May 31, 2012Crystal
May 24, 2012It says this question has been resolved but there’s no answer. What was the answer, because I am also having this dilemma! Thank you!
Crystal,
There are many answers. Anonymous and ha14 suggested solutions and Ryan added to one of them. Did you see and try all these?
May 26, 2012Actually, Fidelis’ solution–right click on a Flash video in Chrome, go to settings to disable hardware acceleration, and restart your browser–worked like a charm for me.
July 5, 2012Clare Dicaprio
July 6, 2012hey tyler! ya i came here bc i had the exact same issue,
for awhile, “adobe flash player” pop ups have been appearing while i was online, i think what you need to do is (if you have a mac)
-go to the spotlight icon at the top of your screen (the little magnifying glass)
- enter adobe flash player into the search.
-click on the top hit and “uninstall” the adobe flash player. this requires your master password so make sure you know it!
kay hope i could help ya!
John Stephenson
July 9, 2012Does Google own Youtube? If they do why are the plugins not installed by default so that the videos can play without users having to have a degree in computing so as to get it to work?
I mean, DUH!!!
eric b
August 4, 2012right click on the black spot then click inspect element, and then close the menu thing with a x at the top right of the menu and it should start working, idk if its supposed to do that but it worked for me
nancy
August 18, 2012Why does you tube video play on chrome but will not play on google. Google says I need latest adobe flash player but my computer won,t download it. I have adobe 11
tommyjones
August 20, 2012why does google chrome play movies & videos on small screen but play in
slowmotion on large screen
MarkfromKY
August 27, 2012google starts to play the first few seconds of a video and then stops I’ve done a lot of troubleshooting and cannot figure out what’s wrong, PLEASE HELP!!! I can’t get past the commercials to play the games on ADULT SWIM!!! there are other sites that don’t work either that’s just the one that upsets me….
I have the same problem I can watch you tube videos but I cant watch Flash Player Videos ..I want my dam Porn!!
September 1, 2012Carol
September 13, 2012Finally figured it out. Check the plugins for Chrome Flash and disable. Hurray! It now works.