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How to fix YouTube Black Screen Video?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You were looking forward to watching your favorite shows on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;websites-like-youtube-alternatives&sol;">YouTube<&sol;a> late at night&period; As you clicked on the thumbnail&comma; waiting for it to load&comma; nothing appeared except a black screen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">This the infamous &OpenCurlyQuote;YouTube black screen&period;’ Many users experience it worldwide&period; It is the most reported issue on the world’s largest video content platform&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sometimes the problem resolves on its own without making any effort&period; But when it doesn’t&comma; you have to look for the hidden issue and fix it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Several reasons contribute to the black screen&period; Luckily you have solutions for each&period; Below are the most common problems and how to fix them without taking any external help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Free online tool for video repair<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">When your YouTube video shows a black screen&comma; fix it with an easy and effective method—a video repair application&period; Check out the app store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are many apps available but you should pick the one that is easy to use and guarantees extraordinary results in no time&period; One such tool is Wondershare Repairit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The video repair application is easy to use and offers extensive usage&period; From video corruption to a black screen and from grainy video to audio syncing&comma; Repairit can fix it all&period; It is different from other applications&semi; you will experience its wonderful features as you use it&period; And did we tell you that the software comes at no cost&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Here is a step-by-step guide to <em>fix <&sol;em><em>YouTube’s black screen video with Repairit<&sol;em>&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Add the video<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Download Wondershare Repairit application &lpar;if you haven’t yet&rpar; and add the YouTube video displaying a black screen&period; You can add it in two simple ways&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Drag and drop the YouTube video to the interface&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Click on the &OpenCurlyQuote;Add’ button to open the browser&period; &lpar;Note&colon; this feature allows adding multiple videos&rpar;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignright size-full wp-image-17933" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Add-the-video&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Add the video" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Repair the video<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">After the video gets uploaded&comma; click the &OpenCurlyQuote;Repair’ button&period; Wait for some time and do not try to stop the process&period; Allow the Repairit to fix your YouTube video’s black screen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignright size-full wp-image-17934" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Repair-the-video&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Repair the video" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Save the video<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Once the video gets repaired&comma; you will receive a notification to &OpenCurlyQuote;Save’ it&period; Please choose a suitable location to save it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignright size-full wp-image-17935" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Save-the-video&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Save the video" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Advanced Repair<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In case&comma; the repair results do not meet your desired expectations&comma; run the video for deeper repair&period; Try &OpenCurlyQuote;Advanced repair’&period; Allow the process to continue for a few minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You will get a notification just like in the step above&period; Save it&period; And voila&comma; your YouTube video is fixed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignright size-full wp-image-17936" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;Advanced-Repair&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Advanced Repair" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"600" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Note&colon; You must have a downloaded YouTube video to use this tool&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Fix YouTube Black Screen Video Via Checking Ad-block&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Interestingly&comma; browser plugins such as Ad-blockers can also stop certain web page elements from showing up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">These plugins are known for blocking stand-alone ads seen on YouTube or a web page&period; When these plugins work at their optimum&comma; they do not allow advertisements from playing while the rest of the page loads normally&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; when the ad blockers do not work correctly&comma; they allow ads to play and blocks some page elements such as a video or a text&period; And hence you witness a black screen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Here’s how to know if Ad blockers are the reason behind the black screen and how to fix it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Go to YouTube&comma; open your video&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Disable Ad blocker temporarily&period; &lpar;The process may vary slightly for each browser&period;&rpar;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Refresh the YouTube page&period; Now play the video&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>If the video starts playing&comma; check the documentation to look for an alternative that prevents it from blocking and blackening YouTube videos&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Note<&sol;strong>&colon; YouTube earns money from ad blockers&period; If you use ad-blockers&comma; you can get blocked&period; Also&comma; YouTube blacklists a few JavaScript queries&comma; thus stopping their display on a web page&period; When you use an ad blocker&comma; if a valid JavaScript gets blocked&comma; you may unintentionally stop the video from loading&period; In such a case&comma; updating or changing add-in or ad blocking extensions is useful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Check the Network Connections<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sometimes when the network connection is bad&comma; a video cannot get video content from the respective server preventing it from playing&comma; leading to the black screen&period; Here are a few things you can try&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Use a VPN&period;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Trying this option can help you fix the issue you may be facing with the local internet connection&period; For people who have their <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;unblock-netflix-vpn&sol;">VPN server<&sol;a> and know how to set it up&comma; fixing the problem is easy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Check your usage<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Often&comma; when you have exceeded your internet usage limit&comma; the video may not play&period; If the same connection runs all your devices&comma; try disabling them on the ones not in use&period; Even some applications can be the root cause of the black screen&period; Stop them and check if your video starts playing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Check your internet connection<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Still another way is ensuring that your internet connection is running smoothly&period; Troubleshoot for internet issues and refresh the page to see if this strategy works&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Refresh the Page or Relaunch the Browser&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Memory issues with your device can lead to problems such as YouTube videos ceasing to play&period; Issues such as cookies and cache data can play foul with videos loading up&period; You may not have noticed&comma; but these were piling up for some time&comma; interfering with your browser’s smooth functioning&period; These may even alter your browser settings and prevent them from loading&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Clear the browsing data&comma; clear cache&comma; or switch to another browser to get over this problem&period; Then restart the device&period; Sometimes when nothing works&comma; this trick does the unexpected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">To help you fix the browser issues&comma; here are the mandatory steps&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Refresh the YouTube video showing the black screen<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Log out of your account &lpar;YouTube&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Close the browser in use&period; Restart it after some time&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>See if there are any latest browser updates&period; Download &lpar;if any&rpar; and install it&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Clear all browser cache<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Delete YouTube cookies<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>On the web browser&comma; disable hardware acceleration<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Think of using another web browser<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Restart your computer&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sometimes&comma; switching to another browser is a good idea as your current browser may be incompatible with the YouTube video&period; Or&comma; if that also doesn’t work&comma; consult your browser provider and ask for help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Turn Off Hardware Acceleration<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Hardware acceleration is a term that defines using computer hardware created to execute a few functions better on a GPU than on the CPU&period; It is useful in enhancing software performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; even hardware acceleration can develop some unanticipated issues&period; So if you have hardware acceleration on your computer&comma; the YouTube videos may not play as normal&period; Try disabling hardware acceleration and check the video&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Below are a few simple steps to disable Hardware acceleration in Chrome&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>Open Chrome<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Go to chrome&colon;&sol;&sol;flags&sol;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Search hardware acceleration<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>If it is enabled&comma; turn it into disabled<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Doing this may mitigate the chances of the error— the black screen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Conclusion<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">We have provided you with sufficient information to get rid of the black screen issue&period; Start with checking the network and network setting and move to your browser and hardware acceleration&period; If nothing works&comma; there is a savior in Wondersahre Repairit video repair software&period; Anyone can use this free web application which is easy to use and resolves the problem effectively&period; Ask your friends also to try it if they get stuck with a similar issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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