having trouble playing youtube videos

meritaten

I upgraded to Windows 10 a couple of weeks back and am having trouble playing 'some' videos on youtube.
its weird, because some videos play ok, others you just get a black screen and audio, and some there is no video OR audio. sometimes I can get it to play by maximising the screen but others I still get nothing.
I also sometimes get a message saying I need adobe flash player - but its on there and working!
even my more techie minded son is puzzled!
anyone know why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

bsod

try a different browser

or make sure flash is upto date

[Deleted User]

Are you referring to videos playing within Youtube, or to videos you have downloaded onto your computer?

meritaten

its videos playing within youtube bob. eg - something like Fear Thy Nieghbour.

and yes, I did check I had the latest version of Flash and it works.

I am not a complete technophobe - I did manage to get BTec nat cert in Computing but it was many moons ago!
Usually I can work out what is wrong and fix it! but this is driving me crazy.
worked fine last night when I opened in internet explorer - but decided it wasn't going to work that way tonight!

London_Ash

bsod wrote: »

try a different browser

or make sure flash is upto date

YouTube doesn't use Flash anymore. It's HTML5 seving .webm videos.