Youtube has stopped using flash player ?

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Michael89
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Youtube has stopped using flash player ?

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Hey guys,

So has youtube finally stopped using flash player ?
I mean i was watching videos today and suddenly i noticed the 480p option was gone. I right clicked the video and saw that html5 player options instead of flash player's option. Flash player add-on is enabled in firefox, i checked it.

Also, i read on a website that youtube has stopped using flash since late january, but i'm not sure 100% about the information. Here's the link:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/27/youtu ... y-default/

Is this true ?

Can anyone please tell me if they can still flash player on youtube or just html5 ?

Also, does anyone know if the news in the link is official or not ?
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Youtube has been using HTML5 for a few months now...
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I have been using flash up until january. Only now it stopped working.
Also, there is another topic about youtube i think in which a user says he can only view up to 720p. This option is in html5 from what i know, because html5 uses only 720p and 360p.
Here's the link

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2914595
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I watched some U.T. vids about a half hour ago... all were Flash... I just double checked one of them and a right-click on the vid had all the Flash options/settings stuff... though this is the first time I've gotten an errors displayed (for about 1/2 second) when starting the vid... then it plays... it had an error message on all of them.

Check your Flash version...

You might want to restart Firefox in safe-mode to see what happens....
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Already checked flash version right after i made the topic. The same in safe-mode, no difference. It is the latest one.
Where do you live ?
Perhaps youtube started cutting off flash regionally you know, if i'm in europe for example they probably did this today. Tommorow or the next week maybe, asia is next etc.
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I'm in Mesquite Nevada USA... little town north of Vegas.

I saw a couple hours ago ... a discussion about this type of thing... I don't remember which Topic it was... did you post to it also?
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df, I think you'll find that link in the 4th post....up.^^^^.
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I posted in this one df.

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2914595
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Wellllll... OKkkkkkk... must be an age thing :lol: :lol: I had plenty of coffee so I can't blame it for the lack of...
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...this is strange!

I have Flash Player set to "ask to activate," and I clear my cache on exit, so settings are not remembered. An hour ago, after reading this post string, I called up YouTube, clicked on a video, and it played automatically in HTML5. I tried it just now and I got the prompt in the center of the screen to enable Flash Player.

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Not that unusual... There are 1000's (maybe Millions) of vids on youtube that are Not coded for HTML5 so you are prompted to enable Flash.
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JayhawksRock wrote:Not that unusual... There are 1000's of vids on youtube that are Not coded for HTML5.


No, it was the same video I played before -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY -- along with some others I tried that worked in HTML5.

I just tried about a dozen more, and same results.

I guess it's possible that YouTube is doing some tweaking, and has disabled the default HTML5 setting--temporarily, I hope.

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If you must have flash, try setting flash to "always" and disable other video related plugin(s) or extensions
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Ortho_Fan wrote:
JayhawksRock wrote:Not that unusual... There are 1000's of vids on youtube that are Not coded for HTML5.


No, it was the same video I played before -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY -- along with some others I tried that worked in HTML5.

I just tried about a dozen more, and same results.

I guess it's possible that YouTube is doing some tweaking, and has disabled the default HTML5 setting--temporarily, I hope.

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and it plays in Flash for me.
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