New iMac owner - trouble viewing videos

Hi - I am a brand new iMac owner. Running OS 10.8.5 Mountain Lion I believe. What exact plug ins do I need to view videos? Nothing works through safari onn youtube or any other hosted video site that I've tried. Thanks

Well, as a matter of fact there is no need to have Adobe Flash Player installed to watch videos on YouTube.
Of course you can install it, but you can live without it and be able to watch YouTube videos altogether.
Open Safari, go to Safari's preferences, Advanced. Check "Show Develop menu in menu bar"
Now you have a new tag in the menu bar named Develop. From there you can select a new User Agent, for example "Safari iOS 6.1 - iPad". This, let YouTube's server believe that you are running Safari on an iPad and streaming the video on your Mac.

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I tried to play the videos using iTunes and an error saying " iTunes has stopped working. Checking for a solution". Then I get, "iTunes has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Sadly, no solution has been sent to me.
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One week and 41 views later, no one has a fix for this? Or is no one else encountering this issue??
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2. OS X defrags all files under 20 MBs on the fly. Unless you have a lot of very large files that undergo frequent changes, there's little need to defragment the drive. For disk repair and other maintenance see my FAQ at the end of this post.
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