# YouTube videos not playing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-not-playing/913198>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 26, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-not-playing/913198 "2020-06-26T14:08:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-videos-not-playing/913198/1 "2020-06-26T14:08:26Z")

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Recently I’ve had a problem when I click on a YouTube video that has been posted on Facebook. The new window opens and the page loads, but the video is black and doesn’t play. If I copy the title (in this case, ’ Something Even You Have Never Seen - Letters of Transit.mov’), paste it into the search bar, and go to the video from Google, I get the same result. If I do a Google search on a different video and play a video from there, it plays. But videos I first try to see from FB often do not play. What’s going on?

I’m running macOS Mojave 10.14.6.

ETA: [Here is the video I’m trying to play.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BztF71vFpnE&fbclid=IwAR2Tv4tMBsM8-FD0r0c_azGapgbpMNrpPxYYc_HKdxzNlBuhHSXEktEy-MU)