Youtube embeds not working on some sites

Peewi

I'm using IE9 on Win7 and since some time last week embedded Youtube videos have stopped working on some sites. On these forums and some other sites, they just show up kinda like an image that isn't loading. On some sites, such as Joystiq and Twitter, embedded Youtube videos work normally. Videos watched on Youtube also work fine.

I have no idea what could be causing this or what can be done to fix it, so any help would be appreciated.

Chanus

Update or reinstall Flash?

Peewi

Chanus wrote:

Update or reinstall Flash?

I've tried that and it didn't change anything.

I've also tried disabling and reenabling IE9 in "turn Windows features on/off" and it didn't do anything either.

Peewi

Looking at the source code of a couple of pages, it looks like the ones where Youtube isn't working use object and embed tags and the ones where it is working uses an iframe.

Unfortunately that doesn't tell me anything about what's causing it or bring me any closer to solving the problem.

Peewi

I haven't gotten closer to finding out what's causing this, but it works normally if I run IE9 as admin.

TychoCelchuuu

Does it work fine in other browsers (Opera, Chrome, FF)?

Peewi

The only other browser I have installed is Chrome, but it works normally in that.

Peewi

I still have no idea what's causing it. I've tried downgrading to IE8, which didn't change anything related to this issue, and now the IE9 installer just fails with no specific error message.

I'm thinking of just importing all my bookmarks and RSS feeds to Chrome and switch to that.