What To Do If The Video Does Not Show In Yandex Browser - Why The Videos Are Not Playing, The Player Is Working

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Why Yandex. Browser does not play video

Thanks to the ubiquitous distribution of online video, terrestrial TV is now morally outdated. Any movie or TV show can be watched at any convenient time. But it happens that an online video suddenly stops playing. In this case, the user has to find out why the browser refused to play it.

Content

• 1 The main reasons for problems with video in Yandex. Browser

• 2 Problems with the Adobe Flash Player plugin

  • 2.1 Adobe Flash Player is disabled
  • 2.2 Conflict between two different versions of Adobe Flash Player

  • 2.3 Outdated version of Adobe Flash Player

    • 2.3.1 Reinstall Adobe Flash Player
    • 2.3.2 Update Adobe Flash Player
    • 2.3.3 Video: how to update Adobe Flash Player in Yandex. Browser
  • 2.4 Turn off hardware acceleration of Adobe Flash

• 3 Other problems

  • 3.1 The influence of an ad blocker in Yandex Browser

    3.1.1 Video: how to remove the AdBlock + plugin from Yandex. Browser

  • 3.2 Viruses in Windows
  • 3.3 Video problems on the site side
  • 3.4 Overload of the user's Internet channel

The main reasons for problems with video in Yandex. Browser

The reasons are different. They can be conventionally grouped as follows:

• incorrect browser settings: the necessary plug-in for video playback is not installed or configured, for example, Adobe Flash Player;
• problems on the site where the video is downloaded from;
• viral activity;
• congestion of the communication channel with the Internet.

Adobe Flash Player Plugin Issues

Let's first consider the problems related to the settings of the Adobe Flash Player plug-in, which is used in Yandex Browser to play video.

Adobe Flash Player is disabled

To enable Adobe Flash Player, do the following:

1. Enter browser: // plugins in the browser address bar.

   

   Find in the list of plugins and launch Flash Player by clicking on the launch link

2. Activate the Adobe Flash Player plugin by clicking on the "Enable" link.
3. Restart Yandex. Browser and open the page on which the video was not played.

Conflict between two different versions of Adobe Flash Player

The "apple of contention" for different versions of Adobe Flash Player is different versions of the Flash technologies used in them: the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI), which was created for the Netscape Navigator browser in 1995 and became obsolete in 20 years, and the Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) is an advanced modification of NPAPI. These two options are incompatible with each other: if an image on some site is recorded, for example, using NPAPI, and the browser supports PPAPI, then such an image will not be played back in it. At the same time, not all sites have switched to PPAPI - this process is smooth and, most likely, it will take several years.

The solution is to disable one of the versions of Adobe Flash Player. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open the Yandex Browser Plugin Manager.

   

   Highlight Adobe Flash Player and click the details button

2. Select "Adobe Flash Player (2 files)" and deactivate one of the plug-in versions by clicking on the "Disable" link.

   

   If there is a conflict between Flash Player versions, Yandex. Browser will not be able to display all sites correctly

3. With a newer version of Adobe Flash Player running, go back to the page where the video was not working.

Try to play the video. If the "Play" button is pressed on the frame of the video and the content starts downloading, you don't need to do anything else yet. If not, disable the new version of Adobe Flash Player and re-enable the previous one using these instructions.

Outdated version of Adobe Flash Player

There are two ways to reinstall Adobe Flash Player: uninstall and reinstall and update the current version to the latest.

Reinstall Adobe Flash Player

The most "advanced" method is to completely remove Adobe Flash Player from the system before reinstalling the application. Close Yandex Browser. To reinstall Adobe Flash Player, do the following:

1. Enter the Start - Run command, type appwiz.cpl, and then click OK.

   

   Enter the Windows Runtime Console and start the Application Manager

2. A tool for managing already installed programs will open. Select the Adobe Flash Player application from the list, most often signed with NPAPI (Legacy). Click the Delete button.

   

   Click the uninstall button after selecting Adobe Flash Player from the list of applications

3. This will launch the proprietary Adobe uninstall wizard (not the standard Windows uninstaller). Confirm the removal of Flash Player by clicking on the uninstall button in the wizard window.

   

   Confirm Adobe Flash Player removal

4. Click the Finish button and open in the same Yandex Browser, or, as a last resort, in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge, the site page get.adobe.com/ru/flashplayer.

   

   Install and update Adobe Flash Player only from the official website

5. Click the "Install" (or "Download") button on the Adobe website. It is recommended that you turn off the option for additional downloads of other Adobe partner products.

   

   Click the Start Download Flash Player button

6. Run the install_flashplayer.exe file (the file name may differ) by clicking the "Run" button.

   

   Click the start button if it is an online downloader

7. Select the installation mode for Adobe Flash updates (if you need them).

   

   Enable or disable future updates to Adobe Flash Player

8. Click the "Next" button and wait for the download and installation of the program to finish.

   

   Installation progress is displayed in the Adobe Installer window

9. When the Flash Player installation is complete, click the Finish button.

   

   Click the button to complete the installation of Adobe Flash Player

Adobe.com will inform you that the new version of Flash Player has been successfully installed.

You are now using the new version of Flash Player

Launch Yandex Browser and check the version of the Flash Player plugin - it should change.

Adobe Flash Player update

Updating Adobe Flash simplifies user actions, but the general principle of reinstallation remains the same - before installing a new version, the old one is removed. Follow the steps below to start the Adobe Flash update:

1. Open the Windows Control Panel by clicking "Start - Control Panel". Alternatively, follow the Start-Run sequence and enter control.

   

   Enter and confirm the control command

2. Select the modification of Flash Player x32 or x64 - depending on what bit Windows you have.

   

   Windows has a special place for Adobe Flash technologies

3. In the window that opens, go to the "Updates" tab.

   

   Go to the "Updates" tab

4. Click the Change update settings button (it can be protected by a user / administrator password) and select the option to automatically install Flash Player updates. If the problem of updating Flash Player is acute, then without changing the settings, click the "Check now" button. The default browser (possibly Yandex Browser) will redirect to the Adobe site.

5. Select the version of the Flash Player engine for Chromium (the Yandex browser is based on it).

   

   Adobe Flash Player is optimized for all modern browsers

6. Download and install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player using the previous installation instructions. Restart Windows when the update is complete.
7. Launch Yandex Browser and go to any site where online videos are published. Run any of them.

8. Most likely, Yandex Browser will issue a puzzle notification on the spot of the video about the need to enable the Flash plug-in or check its settings. Click on it to go to the plugin settings.

   

   Click on a puzzle piece to launch Flash Player

9. First launch the updated Adobe Flash Player to see dynamic content (in this case, the video you want to watch).

   

   In Yandex. Browser, click the Flash Player launch permission button

10. Go to the already familiar plugin settings and check the version and operation of Flash Player using the previous instructions.
11. Refresh the page with the video of interest again. Now animations and banners will be displayed correctly, and online videos will play normally.

Video: how to update Adobe Flash Player in Yandex. Browser

Turn off hardware acceleration Adobe Flash

Hardware acceleration is used on fairly high-performance PCs. That is, a computer or tablet must have a processor with at least 2-4 cores and each performance up to 3 GHz, 2-4 GB of RAM, and an SSD drive (SSD drives are several times faster in operation compared to classic HDD drives) … If the PC is cheap and / or outdated (released in the 2000s), hardware acceleration will only hinder it. To disable acceleration, follow these steps:

1. On a site where the video does not play (for example, a black square without a Play button appears, or a video frame search bar with this button appears, but playback does not start), right-click on the problem video and select Options in the context menu …

   

   Go to the Flash Player hardware acceleration setting

2. Turn off Enable Hardware Acceleration and click Close. The changed setting will be saved.

   

   Uncheck Adobe Flash Player hardware acceleration

Check the availability of the online video on the page where it "didn't go".

Other problems

Now let's move on to investigating other reasons due to which problems with video may arise in Yandex Browser.

The influence of an ad blocker in Yandex Browser

Although the most popular anti-ad plugin AdBlock + for YouTube has a sub-plugin called “AdBlock + for YouTube,” ad blocking can also block the content when playing videos on social media.

This problem is compounded if you use third-party "banner cutters" like AdGuard. To disable them, go to add-ons management by typing browser: // addons and check the presence and operation of the AdGuard component.

Due to ad blocking, Yandex. Browser may incorrectly display content on sites with online video

Turn off AdGuard and refresh the page with problem videos.

It is not recommended that several ad blockers, for example, AdGuarg and AdBlock Plus, work in the browser at the same time: not only online videos, but also some Flash and Java functions of the site engine may be unavailable. In especially neglected cases, the text version of the site will be displayed, and the site will inform you that your browser is out of date.

Video: how to remove the AdBlock + plugin from Yandex. Browser

Viruses in Windows

The influence of malicious programs on browser performance can be multifaceted and lead, in particular, to the following consequences:

1. Damage or replacement of Windows system files, program files of Yandex Browser and its plug-ins, which results in frequent errors when watching videos or navigating to pages of popular video hosting sites such as YouTube.
2. Redirecting the user to fake web pages that copy 99% of the originals in order to steal usernames, passwords and account details.
3. Automatic download of unknown applications (so-called "software worms"). This forces Yandex Browser to open new tabs - empty or with redirection to imposed sites, for example, fakes under well-known search engines.

Therefore, it is required to regularly check Windows for viruses. Use any of the anti-virus programs - from the simple Dr. Web CureIt and ending with more serious antivirus packages, for example, a selection of Kaspersky programs or software from Eset (NOD32).

Video problems on the site side

Problems with video playback directly on the site are caused by the following reasons:

• high server load (this is typical for social networks and video hosts);

• legislative (for the whole country) or local (in the local network of a company or institution) restrictions on access to the site (pornographic topics, entertainment content, etc.); sometimes, but very rarely, site owners themselves restrict access to certain content;

  

  Site closed due to illegal video use

• by the features of the engine (CMS) of the site for which the settings of the Adobe Flash Player plugin are not debugged.

And if in the latter case you can change the settings of the browser and Flash plugins, then the first two entirely depend on the team or the owner of the site.

Overload of the user's Internet channel

Using a 3G / 4G modem, a subscriber of a cellular network, especially in the evening, is faced with insufficient bandwidth for full video playback. And if the most popular video hosting YouTube made sure that in the full version of the youtube.com site you could select a relatively low image quality of 144p (on the mobile version of m.youtube.com - from 240p), which also automatically adjusts to the current channel speed, then on many third-party sites there is no adjustment, and downloading a video may require a speed of several megabits per second.

But insufficient speed is not the only reason for channel congestion. It often happens that the speed is excellent (within the framework of the technology used and the generation of the cellular network), or the user generally has a home fiber-optic Internet connection, and the channel is loaded, for example, by the uTorrent torrent client, Download Master, etc. To eliminate the overload, everything these programs need to be closed.

Each icon in the list of running applications has its own context menu, which should be opened to stop interfering programs

If the icon of the program that creates an increased load is present in the program indication panel, then open the panel (up arrow on the Windows taskbar), right-click on the icon that interferes with the application and select the Close or Exit command in the opened context menu.

Whatever the reason for the failures when viewing online videos in Yandex Browser, it is quite easy to eliminate it. To do this, you need to find the cause by elimination and take appropriate actions to eliminate it.