Solution to Fix Youtube or Other Embedded Flash Video No Sound in External Websites
A video plays fine and properly when played directly in originating video sharing and hosting sites Youtube, MetaCafe, Google Video, CNet Videos, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Revver themselves, complete with the sound heard nicely. However, the audio is lost and no sound is heard when the Flash video is played on another third party or external sites or blogs that embedded these Youtube and other sites’ videos, although the video still moving. The symptom happens when users computers is using Flash 8 or 9, and uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Flash Player won’t help.
Here is a simple solution to fix the problem that embedded flash video from Youtube, Google Video, Daily Motion, Revver, iFilm and Metacafe on third party websites or blogs failed to play sound and audio.
- Visit a web page with a Flash video embedded on the page.
- Click on the Flash video to activate the Flash plugin (only on SP2 or above), then right click on video to display the Flash properties menu.
- Click on “Settings” on contextual menu, then click the “Advanced…” button.
- A new web page window will launch loading Adobe – Flash Player – Manager. On the left pane, click on “Global Storage Settings Panel” link under “Flash Player Help Settings Manager” sub-section under “Table of Contents” section.
- A Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager applet will load on the right pane as a Flash object. Check (tick) the “Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer” checkbox so that it’s checked. The settings should be auto-save, if the setting is not saved, try to close all Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser windows and launch the Flash Manager to set the option again.
- Try to play Flash video. The sound should be played properly.
If the above guide does not solve the problem that video clips from Youtube, VideoSift, Break, Google Videos, Dailymotion, Yahoo, and other video sharing websites play no sound on external sites while audio output fine when viewing the video on video hosting sites itself. Another possible cause is that the Flash contents which is cached get corrupted or damaged, preventing audio streaming from working correctly (Most video sharing sites use Flash video technology to deliver video and audio streaming). To solve this possible corruption, try to use the following hack.
- Download and install CCleaner, a freeware system optimization and privacy tool that able to remove unused files from system, and clean traces of online activities.
- Run CCcleaner, uncheck and unselect everything that is selected in both Windows and Applications tabs for Cleaner function, except the option of Macromedia Flash Player, located under Multimedia branch in Applications tab. Ensure that all other options are unselected, or else there may be unforeseen sequences including unable to boot your computer.
- Click on “Analyze” button, and when finished, click on “Run Cleaner” button when done. This will clean and clear out the old downloaded Flash caches.
- Try to load the embedded videos again, the sound should output fine now.
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August 21st, 2008 19:09
this link helped me http://zarindenatrose.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/fixing-sound-firefox-vista/
August 17th, 2008 14:19
i went in to services and found that windows audio service was no running.
i started it and that fixed the sound in flash files for me
July 31st, 2008 10:14
[...] on the net involve the Wavemapper trick, reinstalling flash, using the K-Lite Codec Tweak or using CCleaner to fix it. None of these worked for me, and I decided to try to fix it [...]
July 22nd, 2008 04:49
Cool, thanks! I needed this to fix a problem with the sound not working. Strange i guess that flash obj relied on that… sry for my bad english
July 22nd, 2008 04:16
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Занимательная статья и картинка по-любому в тему, молодцом:)
July 14th, 2008 02:13
Sorry, didnt check before I deleted. If it happends again, Ill write here.
Im doing alot of work with vid so Im sure it will happen some time soon.
Thanks again, I let YouTube know of this link and I told them about your post. I wouldnt put too much hope in YouTube reading it as Im still waiting for a question about terms of use back in January 2008.
Thanks again Shanimal
July 14th, 2008 01:34
James, thanks.
I was also wondering if indeed gdata had reached its limit. Can someone confirm that gdata is 100k of 100k (or whatever the limit may be?) I cant force the issue, because I cleared the sites without first checking gdata’s usage.
-Shannon
July 14th, 2008 01:25
Shanimal
July 11th, 2008 06:10
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If someone can confirm this… I think the site gdata.youtube.com may have reached its limit? My settings were already set correctly for Storage, but I found deleting the sites from “Website Storage Settings” fixed it for me.
THIS WORKS!! Sorted. Cool
THANKS Shanimal
July 14th, 2008 01:15
Err, just went through the entire downloading installing running of that Regcure to find I have to buy it! I dont want my reg fixed, last time I done anything like that I lost a load of appache server settings! I am NOT buying it because Ill never use it again. Ive tried everything else suggested but Im going to try what Shanimal said about the “website storage settings” and see if this solves the problem. I can here sound on every know flash movie known to man :p except my version of chromeless player (googles example of it works fine) I know its not code issue as my other PC works fine! “Aghh” I think is the best expression right now! :\
July 13th, 2008 10:41
[...] No sound on You Tube 13 07 2008 No sound on You Tube? My friend ask me to find the problem, I google and and found the tutorial, still triying. Fix No sound in You Tube [...]
July 11th, 2008 06:10
If someone can confirm this… I think the site gdata.youtube.com may have reached its limit? My settings were already set correctly for Storage, but I found deleting the sites from “Website Storage Settings” fixed it for me.
May 4th, 2008 06:02
okay here is what you do
UNINSTALL ALL FLASH PLAYERS (Control Panel>>Add Remove Progrems>> Uninstall Adobe Flash Player Active X and Plugin
go to google and search for: FLASH PLAYER 8
install that
then open Internet Explorer/Firefox: try a video, you will have sound
April 8th, 2008 14:26
I was on the brink of giving up too. Until I went to http://www.free-codecs.com and downloaded this very nice program called UltraGet Video Downloader. With this very simple program, you just copy the link of the video you want to watch, and paste it into the program, then it downloads the video from the site and you can watch it normally. Thanks to this wonderful program, I can watch YouTube and other embedded videos again, and actually hear what is going on.
March 22nd, 2008 16:59
I installed flash player 9 then flash player 8 then I got the sound back
March 18th, 2008 17:26
wtf?i did everything and it still wont work.I downloaded ccleaner and the macromedia flash player option was not there.Can somebody PLEASE HELP ME???
March 7th, 2008 16:38
If you cant check the box on the site for flash settings it probably means your flash player folder is corrupt. To fix this go to your local disk (C:, E: whatever u use) then go to Documents and Settings, choose your user folder, then go to Application Data folder ( you will need to have view hidden files/folders on in the folder options, to change this go to Tools, Folder Options, View and make sure you check Show Hidden Files and Folders) once your in the Application Date folder go to the Macromedia folder, there you should see a Flash Player folder, try to delete it, it will probably say you cannot delete it because its corrupt. So what you will have to do is rename it to say “Flash Player Corrupt” or “Flash Player 2″ whatever u want. Now go to the Flash Player settings website and you should beable to check the boxes now (or they should already be checked).
I recommend that you delete the corrupt folder later aswell with a program like Unlocker or KillBox (just search in google for them or for deleting corrupt files)
March 7th, 2008 15:53
i cant check the box either :/
also when i run ccleaner with flash checked it doesnt remove any files
February 25th, 2008 14:26
I GIVE UP
February 22nd, 2008 20:22
flash wont allow me to check the box either and slider doesn’t save either. Did anyone figure this out?
February 6th, 2008 19:27
[...] Re: No sound!! check out this solution which i found on web :- 1. Visit a web page with a Flash video embedded on the page. 2. Click on the Flash video to activate the Flash plugin (only on SP2 or above), then right click on video to display the Flash properties menu. Adobe Flash Settings 3. Click on “Settings” on contextual menu, then click the “Advanced…” button. Adobe Flash Advanced Settings 4. A new web page window will launch loading Adobe – Flash Player – Manager. On the left pane, click on “Global Storage Settings Panel” link under “Flash Player Help Settings Manager” sub-section under “Table of Contents” section. 5. A Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager applet will load on the right pane as a Flash object. Check (tick) the “Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer” checkbox so that it’s checked. The settings should be auto-save, if the setting is not saved, try to close all Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser windows and launch the Flash Manager to set the option again. Flash Global Storage Settings 6. Try to play Flash video. The sound should be played properly. heres the source :- MY DIGITAL LIFe [...]
January 20th, 2008 10:38
what happens when flash won’t allow me to check the box??? it’s there but when I try to check it nothing happens. and when I move the slider it doesn’t save neither???
December 17th, 2007 17:04
I also haven’t fixed this problem yet and i’ve done everything. I’ve done what’s listed above, both parts of it. I have redownloaded flash 9.whatever and such. I have even adjusted my registry with the wavemapper thing that other people have said to try. I’ve done everything i’ve found so far and nothing has worked. What has been happening to me is this: Video files on my computer work fine. What doesn’t work is flash videos on the net via youtube/whatever. I see the video and i do have a slight bit of volume. I have to turn my speakers to max and jam the thing next to my ear and i can barely hear it. ALL sound settings for youtube and my own speakers and the sound on my computer are maxxed, it is not just me failing to check something stupid like that. I am totally lost as to what is wrong….
October 5th, 2007 06:57
hi.. i do all the proses w/ ccl but it doesnt work
October 4th, 2007 20:47
The “allow third-party flash content” worked for me too.. However, along with getting the sound to work, at the end of my video I also got every other thumbnail view that’s in the same catagory qued up for play on my page….Unacceptable..Since my video is an introduction to another web video from another website, and I am not interested in promoting everyone else’s biz op….
Is there some way to alter the embed code from YouTube so that it does not load up the extra content?
Thanks,
September 28th, 2007 03:54
Of all the googled suggestions “Allow third-party Flash content” worked for me!
I’m delighted. Thanks.