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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: My Browser, Video Formats
Date: 16 Mar 2015 19:27:10 GMT
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On 2015-03-16, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> OS 10.10.2
> Safari 8.0.3
>
> About 80% of the time I go to YouTube I get a dark display (within the 
> YouTube's frame) with the following message.
>
> 	Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.
> 	Click here to visit our frequently aksed questions about HTML5 video.
>
> No, play, mute or other tools.
>
> If I click somewhere in the frame in usually goes away and I continue 
> as always.  If I trigger a page refresh it gives me the correct display 
> maybe half the time.  Sometimes I have to do it a few times.  It's a 
> pain.
>
> Others getting this?  Can anything be done other than changing to 
> another browser?

Give us a couple example URLs and we'll see.

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