YouTube – sound works, black screen

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  atomicgeography · Member · Nov 8, 2013 at 6:14 pm

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  Recently the YouTube videos embedded in my blog went from working fine to the sound working, but showing only a black screen where the visual part should play. An example is at http://atomicgeography.com/2013/08/05/scientific-minds-making-it-work/

  How can I fix this?

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Nov 8, 2013 at 6:22 pm

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  The videos work for me.
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