Youtube won't play videos, liveleak plays with no sound

Windows 8 running on an Acer Aspire V laptop. I don't know many specs other than that but I'm sure I could figure them out if need be.

Youtube videos will load but not play, I can hover my mouse over the loading bar and see that the entire video has loaded but when I click play it doesn't do anything. This happens in both chrome and IE. When I restart the computer it fixes the problem for some length of time but will revert back to this shenanigans some time after I do, I guarantee it.

Liveleak and WSHH videos will play the visual without audio.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as all I have found online about this is a few years old and mostly has responses like "have you turned it off and on?" which I'm sure y'all get a lot of around here.

I read that it might have to do with chrome extensions (even though it is happening in IE as well), so I figure I'll mention that I have Hola and Hangouts but both are off.

Thanks in advance Tech Gods