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I can't get Palemoon to play some YouTube videos. I want to see if the fault is all 4 Windows 7 computers in our home or actually that Palemoon can't handle some html5. (I can fire up Vivldi or Firefox and have no problem but I'd like to get Palemoon working.)

I've been posting on the Palemoon forum and first he blamed an addon. I fired up Palemoon in safemode with no addons and I created a new profile. In both cases I see the same error. Now he is blaming it on a plugin VLC Web Plugin. Since a plugin is impossible to remove (it can probably be removed but it might break things), I did the next best thing and disabled it. And still the same error shows.

This is the video, a free movie on YouTube with ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbY5a71f4-U
Post Yes, if the video starts.
Post No if you see the following error "Your browser currently does not recognize any of the formats currently available. Click to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video". When I click to get to HTML5, I get this - which is no help at all.

I get the same error as you, Liz. It works fine in Edge. And in FF, it works, but it plays a couple ads first. So it seems in PM, it is choking on those ads.

No. 

Same error with Pale Moon on Windows 10.

Edit Note:  BTW, I don't have the VLC Plugin installed and Flash is set to always ask. 

I got this message:
Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

The reason could also be that Youtube and other streaming sites, has lowered the quality at their sites. This because they want to keep their sites running these days.

If some in the US are getting the same error as me, it is as I suspect, Palemoon can't handle every video format and it has nothing to do with a) no flash on any of my computers b) the addons I've installed c) the plugin I have.

I don't see what the user's location in the world has to do with this.

I also am not sure it is fair to single-out Palemoon as being unable to play "every" video format. That is, do we know for a fact that Chrome, FF, Edge, or [fill in the blank] can play "every" video format out there? But clearly, PM cannot play those formats when (at least IMO) it should - or at least give a more descriptive error message.

I also know for certain that I am NOT going to enable Flash just to view that content. I mean if Microsoft has Edge set to "Always block Flash (recommended)" set by default, that should be clear enough warning to keep Flash content blocked.

I just checked out your thread at the PM forums and was disappointed in the "tone" and some of the comments in the replies you got from the staff there. Pretty sad.

As far as refusing to play DRM content, there may be something to that - but as I noted, for me it seems to be choking on the ads that play (or try to play) before the movie. In any case, it seems to me if the admin and/or moderator staff had tried your link before posting to see if they had the same issue, then determined the cause, they could have provided a logical explanation without their tone of intolerance for anyone with less experience.
 and understanding of the inner workings of PM than them.

I'd also like to say that, having just read your post in the PM forum, the "tone" of responses by moonchild and tobin are unacceptable :-(

As for DRM, "Pale Moon is based on much older code. It won’t have the new web features or performance improvements of modern versions of Firefox, nor does it support watching certain kinds of video with DRM". 
(source:  https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use-waterfox-pale-moon-or-basilisk/ which I realize was written in February, 2018)

Is Youtube very slow where you are? It has been very slow here the last past 3 weeks.

What I meant was if the Youtube site is loading slow.