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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April 28th, 2009 12:33
I experience this problem as well. What finally solved it for me was to delete the preferences for Macromedia – not sure how you go about doing this in the windows world (maybe the CCleaner) in the Mac world it is simple.
*user*/library/preferences/macromedia
I deleted the entire folder. Restarted my browsers.
Bingo! Audio is back. It was affecting Firefox as well – problem solved there as well.
April 20th, 2009 06:24
I had no sound on YouTube for two days…..it drove me nuts!!!! I downloaded all of the requirements….to no avail…..still no sound.
Today I LOOKED AT MY OWN SOUND ON THE YOUTUBE, AND IT WAS ALL THE WAY DOWN. I PULLED IT (the volume in youtube) UP, AND SURE ENOUGH, IT WORKED….
The sound worked all this time,,,I had not clue why the sound volume was down…..but this was the only thing that was wrong, in my case….I sympathys with those who cannot have sound…when the video is so clear…
March 22nd, 2009 18:59
I tried both of the solutions, but nither of them works :S. Is there any other way??
March 20th, 2009 23:23
CCleaner worked like a charm to recover sound on youtube. Thanks so much for your helpful and well-illustrated step-by step instructions!
February 23rd, 2009 10:41
Changing the Adobe Flash settings didn’t help me and neither did using K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool as recommended on other sites. BUT, your CCleaner fix *did* work! Thanks so much!
(I am using Windows XP Home Edition, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Adobe Flash Player 10.)
February 8th, 2009 22:08
[...] if this helps: Solution to Fix Youtube or Other Embedded Flash Video No Sound in External Websites
February 8th, 2009 02:08
open up control panel, double click on speaker icon, at the top you will see some tabs click on sounds..choose WINDOWS DEFAULT SCHEME…you don’t need to save the one you are using….then click on Volume tab at the top put a check mark where it says PLACE VOLUME ICON IN TASKBAR….now click on AUDIO choose the option for your sound card…now click VOICE at the top choose the same option for sound card click apply sound should come back immediately…I loose sound every time I install Quick Time Player hopes this works for you. PS Don’t get suckered into buying a REGISTRY CLEANER
January 27th, 2009 09:26
Nice. I was having this problem on youtube itself. In both firefox and IE. Using vista OS.
This worked for me – Delete all websites button under “website storage settings”
Thanks, elmgurl!
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
January 24th, 2009 20:01
works like a charm.. thx!
January 16th, 2009 02:36
Thanks Shanimal. After trying numerous other suggestions, deleting the “website storage settings” through Adobe worked!! Couldn’t have been easier to do!!
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
January 14th, 2009 06:58
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December 29th, 2008 21:21
Thank you so much for the solution! It worked! Actually the box to be ticked is really checked already but what I did was to uncheck and then check again and restart computer and then solved! Great! Thank you so much again….
December 28th, 2008 03:30
Wow….super .
You are cool .
I try a lot to find the solution end after i try your indications…work great.
I You can try to do a Youtue video tuttorial.
It will be very ussefull for lot people.
Best Regards end Hapy Holidays !
December 18th, 2008 01:17
[...] the browser’s Flash plugin. You may need to activate the sound option to hear the embedded audio. This will explain how to do that. Another possibility is that the sound is actually muted on the site’s [...]
December 11th, 2008 21:12
I dont know , whether the above response works or not. But try this tooooo….
Flash No Sound WaveMapper Solution
1. Launch Registry Editor by typing regedit at Run command.
2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
3. On the right pane, and check for existance of “wavemapper” registry subkey, the mail culprit causing Flash no sound. If not found, create a new String value named “wavemapper”, and give the entry value “msacm32.drv”.
If wavemapper entry is already existed, ensure that its value data is “msacm32.drv”.
Also ensure and verify that the msacm32.drv driver file is existing in C:\Windows\System32 folder. If the file is missing in that location, search for other copy of msacm32.drv in the computer, or copy that file from another system.
November 11th, 2008 23:05
Man … dunno who wrote this solutions … but if u would find at any problem this kind of explanation then everyone would be happy … nice tweaks … i had the youtube prob my self and tryed 10 “smart” other ways that didnt work and found this short tweak
November 4th, 2008 04:00
Thank you very much. Works a wonder.
September 28th, 2008 18:40
The solution on this site worked for me:
http://forums.techguy.org/multimedia/490867-fixed-adobe-flash-no-sound.html
September 25th, 2008 04:42
fix works awesome. cheers for that. oh and a fuck’ena to you as well for a job well done
August 31st, 2008 01:27
I had the same problem, no sound on youtube and a few other sites, tried all these suggestions, no luck. After scouring the net, I found this:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
I downloaded the standard codec package and it worked perfectly! Try it, can’t hurt, and I couldn’t believe after 4 weeks of no sound on youtube it worked GREAT!
August 23rd, 2008 03:57
I had this problem (no sound) with a new pc I was preparing, turns out I plugged the sound in the wrong sound slot in the motherboard. Sounds noobish, but the fact is the speakers worked fine with mp3s. I ended up plugging the speakers in a 7.1 slot ( I guess). So you might wanna check if you don’t have your speakers in the wrong slot. (Green obv)
August 23rd, 2008 03:20
manishi, come back to this site and look for alink that says “Show All”, click that and some really good advice (from me) will help you get your sound back
Ultimately learn how to clear your “flash cookies” (note the word “flash” in “flash cookies”) and it will very likely resolve your issues.
August 22nd, 2008 12:28
I’ve been having this problem the last few weeks. I just tried both things you suggested, going to the site and running CCleaner. Still no sound.
I have XP, but I do have a program installed that gives my whole computer the Vista skins for windows and the taskbar and everything.
Contact me via my email if you have any more suggestions, because this problem is quite aggravating. I frequent quite a few sites that use flash and I would love to have SOUND again!!!!!
August 22nd, 2008 03:10
A member of our flash team found the problem. It has to do with mute vs. volume=0. Clearing the cookies clears the state of the cookies that mantain these values. We added some code to clear the states manually and havent had a word off the problem since.
August 22nd, 2008 01:56
i ma having the same problem. I was not able to find the specified path. i am thinking because the solution mentioned is for vista and not for xp which i am having. please correct me if i am wrong . also if anybody knows the solution in a XP along these line please do post it.
appreciate your help