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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Torsten Sachse
<torsten.sachse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Gareth France wrote:
>>
>> Today I had need to play a youtube video and found that they play but the
>> video is plain black. I can only hear the audio. I tried downloading a
>> different app and playing through the browser but same deal. Anyone else
>> have this and is it a known problem?
>
>
> it's a known problem when the video quality is set to low. There was a
> discussion on the list about that some time ago. I don't know whether
> it's being worked on or maybe even fixed in the next OTA. The problem
> appears to happen most often on a mobile connection since that's when
> bandwidth is usually small, causing the quality to automatically being
> set to low (unless you have HSDPA or another high-speed connection, of
> course).

And this is being tracked by https://launchpad.net/bugs/1437485.