My mac wont play videos

My Mac will not play videos. I can hear them but not see them

What kind of videos are you talking about? DVDs, iTunes store, YouTube, pirated stuff from torrents, or something else? Details are important. Also please let us know what operating system you are using.
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Hello,
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when trying to open iTunes.
Are these Flash Videoes?
Out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player do not include the latest security updates and will be disabled to help keep your Mac secure. If Safari 5.1.7 or Leopard Security Update 2012-003 detects an out-of-date version of Flash Player on your system, you will see a dialog informing you that Flash Player has been disabled. The dialog provides the option to go directly to Adobe's website, where you can download and install an updated version of Flash Player.
Additional Information
If you need to re-enable an out-of-date version of Flash Player, you can do the following:
    1.    Navigate to the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins (Disabled) folder.
    2.    Drag "Flash Player.plugin" into /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
    3.    If the browser is running, quit and restart it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5271

HT3775 I have an mpeg video from someone who is on PC. My mac wont play it. Says I need more software. Can anyone help?

I have an mpeg video from someone who is on PC. My mac wont play it. Says I need more software. Can anyone help?

VideoLAN - Download official VLC media player for Mac OS X

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I recently upgraded encore from ver.2 to cs3 and find that ver.cs3 wont play video files.
It wont play the file in the project window, it just stops at the first frame. If I move the slider below the viewer the video material is updated but it wont play.
In the monitor view it wont play either, I can view the material by manually moving the cursor.
It wont play a preview either, it just stops.
It builds a DVD without problems and the dvd plays fine without errors but the program wont play any video files.
Ver.2 plays all the same video files without problems.
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Whew!
Glad that you got it fixed, and thanks for posting what worked for you.
Good luck with the interview,
Hunt
PS - BTW, welcome to the forum!

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After reconnecting some origianl files after a hard drive crashed, there are diagonal stripes on some clips on the timeline that wont play video in the program monitor. They do however play in the source monitor.

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Just within the last few days Youtube wont play videos. Any ideas why this might be they work in IE.

Please give more details. Is this with just YouTube, or are there any
problems on other sites? What does / does not happen? Does the
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Mac wont play online videos and photobooth is pink and green pixels?

Recently my MacBook Pro has been very slow and has now decided not to play videos on E.g Youtube. I thought it was just the internet playing up, but going to use PhotoBooth the camera screen is all pink and green pixels?? Overall my mac is very slow and doesnt play video/photobooth. Help please!!!

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My ipod 5th gen. 30 gig wont play video on to tv!! need help, please!

Hi, I have searched and have found no answer. My ipod wont play on the tv. I don't have a offical Apple cable that plugs into the headphone jack to the tv. But I have a cable that I have found laying around my house that is exactly the same. It has a headphone connecter on one saide, and three other plugs on the other (yellow, white, red).
I know if I'm not using a Apple cable that I have to rerange the cables, red to yellow, white to red, yellow to white. I've tried other combinations with NO success.
I have the ipod set to TV on..
And the only thing that happens is that white and grey lines start dancing around on the tv..
and SOMETHIMES theres is some auido, but with only one speaker..
I have tired two tv's. A hdtv and a flat screen tv.

Stephanie,
The reason a standard A/V cable won't work with the iPod if you match the colors is because the A/V cable standard was developed by Video Camera manufactures and they arbitrarily picked the connections on the 3-contact 1/8" plug to go to their colors.
When Apple decided to put a three contact 1/8" jack on the iPod and use one contact for Video output, they couldn't match the same colors because the configuration picked by the video folks didn't match the two audio channels to the same ones used by standard headphones. So Apple had to make their own A/V cables to get the colors to match up correctly.
If they hadn't made their own A/V cables (or made you use a standard cable with the colors mixed up) and made the iPod match the A/V standard then it would have required custom wired headphones for the iPod. Clearly you can see where the outrage would be if Apple seemingly MADE people buy their custom headphones and didn't let you use any headphones you wanted, right?
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Quicktime wont play video content from youtube

hi there i recently purchased an imac i have been sent a link to a video on the youtube web site when i try to view the video all i get is the quicktime symbol with a question mark in it.
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i just dont understand why quicktime wont play the video
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Go to Adobe.com........
If you can see their site...it about 99.9%, you have the flash plug-in...But, for lack of doing anything else... re-install the flash plug-in...At one point in installing the plug-in, make sure you close out all bowsers.....
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Quicktime wont play video ANY VIDEO and I cant fix it

I have downloaded all of the software on the quicktime website and it still wont play any of my videos. all of my stuff has different extensions and i have tried a ton of varieties of them but still nothing.
Does anyone know what i could use to fix this.
I have been looking in the forms all day but i cant find any suggested software at all.
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This is not what i expected from apple or any of its products.

What is the format or file extension you're trying to open via QuickTime Player?
QT can open dozens of file formats and sometimes you need third party components or codecs to view non supported formats.

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It's likely that those particular videos require Flash Player to view. Adobe discontinued supporting Flash Player for mobile devices a year ago, so you can't view those videos on your iPad. You CAN view them on a laptop because Flash Player for computers still works fine. This has been discussed endlessly on this Forum.
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SATA = "Serial ATA." ATA is the standard that has been used for most PC disk drives for many years. Up until a few years ago, most PC disk drives were what is now called "Parallel ATA," or PATA for short. This is being replaced by the more modern "Serial ATA," or SATA.
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That's why I disdain the cloud and prefer terra firma with a good recent local backup on a computer I control. But anyway...
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