Question Most Video Sites not Playing

Campo1988

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Hi.

I can't get most video sites to work. Youtube seems to be the only site which works. BBC iPlayer & ITV (UK TV channels/websites) don't work. I also tried adult sites because I thought why not, and they don't work. LiveLeak doesn't work. I don't use Facebook, but coming to think about it I have not been able to watch videos on there before. The last time I tried, Twitter didn't work...

How can I fix it? I downloaded and installed what I thought would work - Adobe Flash Player - which did nothing at all to help, despite it saying on its site it is working, with the animated cloud graphic. I installed a Flash Player add-on for Firefox which made no difference. The built-in plugins - OpenH246 Video Codec, Shockwave Flash and Widevine Content Decoder - are as they are... I went into safe mode in Firefox, and that didn't make a difference. I disabled Hardware Acceleration in Firefox's settings, which didn't help. I disabled all Enhanced Tracking Protetion options, to no avail.

I have tried all of these things, and only Youtube works. I just updated Firefox to 75.0, but that also didn't do anything to help. It is on Windows 7 32-bit.

Please help. It is very annoying having to go to another site and downloading the videos just to watch them.

Thanks.
 
Have you tried other web browsers aside from Firefox? Has this issue always been happening? What changed if it did not? Do the sites not work or just the videos don't play with a black window? Try a clean Windows setup or a system restore to a time before the issue started?