In this article, learn how to fix the “Error loading player: No playable sources found” message when you attempt to watch videos online on your Chrome browser.
If this error message is appeared, you are not able to stream online videos, even when the network connections work perfectly fine right from the start. This tutorial will share you the most common suggestions that has worked for the users facing this error. Here’s how to fix player loading errors in Windows 10.
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How To Fix Error Loading Player: No Playable Sources Found In Google Chrome
Method 1. Enable Adobe Flash
First of all, if you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed on your system at all, click this link to download the latest version of Flash Player. Once installed, follow the steps below to enable Flash Player in your Chrome browser.
Step 1. Open your Chrome browser.
Step 2. In the address bar at the top, type in chrome://settings/content/flash and press Enter.
Step 3. Make sure Adobe Flash content is loaded.
Step 4. When you access a webpage you trust that has Flash content, click Click to enable Adobe Flash Player. Confirm by clicking Allow. Now you restart your browser, the “Error loading player: No playable sources found” should have been fixed.
Method 2. Update Flash
If you get the “Error loading player: No playable sources found” message while an online movie/video was loading on your Chrome browser, you should update Flash Player in Google Chrome. To do that, follow these steps:
Step 1. Open your Chrome browser.
Step 2. In the address bar at the top, type in chrome://flags and press Enter.
Step 3. Make sure that Prefer HTML over Flash and Run all Flash content when Flash setting is set to “allow” are set to Default.
Step 4. Open another tab then type in chrome://components and press Enter.
Step 5. Locate Adobe Flash Player and check the Adobe Flash Player version installed. Click the Check for update button.
Note: If you see “Component updated” or “Component not updated” you’re on the latest version.
Method 3. Update your browser
If your browser is outdated, it may cause issues while attempting to stream an online video. a good way to fix the issue will be in updating your browser to the Latest Version. Here is how to update Google Chrome:
Step 1. Open your Chrome browser.
Step 2. At the top right, click on the three-dots icon >Help > About Google Chrome.
Step 3. Click About Google Chrome. Wait for Google Chrome to update.
Note: If you see a message here that tells “Google Chrome is up to date“, you’re on the latest version.
Step 4. Click Relaunch.
You can also easily complete this operation for all the other web browser like Firefox, Coccoc or Opera.
See the illustration of this tutorial in following video:
Hope something helps you. Thank you for visiting my blog to learn how to fix player loading errors in Windows 10.
