Everything played is black. No video, no audio

I finally updated my mac’s Kodi to v17. 16 was working fine but thought I should keep it in line with all my other devices.

But now no player works.

Something as basic as youtube…

..It plays but there’s no sound or video.

I have tried solutions mentioned such as disabling hardware acceleration, reinstallation of kodi and/or addons (at least 5 times).

If it was my internet connection, then my phone on the same wifi shouldn’t be playing the videos via kodi but it can.

However, on my mac, it doesn’t play anything. It shows the player loading and moving but there’s no sound and there’s no video.

I cannot find any other solution on this entire internet.