Video play on safari is black

Seems like since i put ios5 on my ipad, video play from sites such as msnbc.com appear black in Safari. Any ideas? It used to work fine..

Go step by step and test.
1. System Preferences > Other/ Flash Player > Advanced > Delete All
     Press the "Delete All" button
     Install Adobe Flash Player.
    http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
    Follow the prompts. Click Safari in the menu bar and then Quit Safari .
    Restart computer. Relaunch Safari.
2. Allow Plug-ins
    Safari > Preferences > Security
    Internet Plug-ins > "Allow plug-ins"
    Enable it.
    Press " Manage Website Settings" button for more options.
    Highlight “Adobe Flash Player:
   Select “Allow” for
    Currently open website:
    All other websites:
    Click “Done”.
3. Check whether you are currently in YouTube HTML 5 trial.
     http://www.youtube.com/html5
     At the bottom left of the page, uncheck the box beside
     "You are currently in the HTML5 trial".
4. Delete cookies.
     Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and other website data:
     Press the “Remove All Website Data” button. It may take a while.
5. Turn off Extensions, if any.
    Safari > Preferences > Extensions
    Relaunch Safari.

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