Videos in Safari Work Sporadically

I have been experiencing issues with video playback on my Mac from time to time. Youtube, and videos in facebook.
I am running the lastest OS, and is updated, Mountain Lion.
The only way to get the videos working again is to close Safari, and reopen. This is a PITA when I have several tabs open.
Any idea why this is happening?

YouTube and Facebook both require Fllash.
Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Advanced tab.
Click Delete All under Browsing Data and Settings
Back to Safari. Press Command + Option + E to empty the Safari cache.
Quit and relaunch Safari, try a video.
f that doesn't help, you may have the YouTube HTML5 beta enabled.
Opt out here > YouTube
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit

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