Nowadays, many people would like to watch videos online using their preferred android browser. They can visit the website of a certain player media and watch videos freely without the need to download the player media application. While sometimes, users can’t watch a certain video through a website and receive the error message: This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 224003)
This problem commonly happens to the Google Chrome browser. If you are experiencing this issue, perhaps the embedded Media Player in your browser is incorrectly configured or the browser cache and extensions are interfering with the process.
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How To Fix Error Code: 22403?
To Fix “This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 224003)” we have 5 troubleshooting methods given below:
Method 1 Clear Browsing Data
It can happen that incorrect and corrupted cached files might be the culprit for the Chrome error. So It’s recommended to clear the browsing data by following the steps given below:
- Open your Google Chrome Browser
- Press Ctrl + Shift + Delete
- Set the time range to All time
- Now select the cookies and other sites data and cached and image files options
- Click on the Clear Data button to clear your browsers cookies and cache data
Method 2 Disable All Extensions
As you know sometimes extensions might be the culprit of your error code: 22403. So disabling all the extensions can fix your error on Google Chrome. So follow the steps given below to disable it:
- Open your Google Chrome Browser
- Click on 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the screen
- Click on More Tools and click on Extensions
- Now click on all the blue toggle buttons on the extension
- Lastly, turn off all your browser extensions
Method 3 Update Google Chrome
Not always, but it happens that the older version might be creating any problem which leads to the error so updating Google Chrome might help to fix it. Here’s how to do it
- Open your Google Chrome Browser
- Click on the 3 vertical dots and click on the help button
- In the help, button click on About Google Chrome
- Here you will see the latest updated version which is automatically updated by Google
- Lastly, click on the Relaunch button to finish the process
Method 4 Try Using Incognito Mode
Try to watch your videos through Incognito Mode and if your videos runs properly in your Incognito Mode then it might be an issue with your third-party extensions:
- Open Google Chrome
- Click on 3 vertical dots in the upper-right section of the chrome
- Select New incognito Mode or you can press the Shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + N
- Check if the videos is playing properly in Incognito Mode or not
Method 5 Disable Hardware Acceleration
Some users have successfully removed the issue by disabling the hardware acceleration feature in Chrome. You can also have a try.
To disable hardware acceleration, just go to Chrome Settings > Advanced > System and then toggle off the button next to Use hardware acceleration when available option.
- Open your Google Chrome Browser
- Click on 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the screen and click on Settings
- Scroll Down and click on Advanced
- Go to system and disable “Use hardware acceleration when available” option
- Restart chrome and it will help you in fixing the error code: 22403
Conclusion
These are best and simple methods that you can use to solve error code: 22403 on your Google Chrome. If the problem still persist then contact Google support to resolve your error