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| Big Shoe 2007-05-01, 1:12 pm |
| I have searched through the various posts on this subject and now know
that I am not alone in being unable to play videos on many sites. For
example, CNN does not work. Neither does MSN or MSNBC, but I can
somewhat understand that. I have not been able to locate the problem,
I keep gettting messages that various plugins are needed, and have
installed everything it asks for, but still get the messages. I'm
running Firefox 2.0.0.3. I can resolve this by opening those pages
in IE, but if I do so many pages in IE, what's the point of using
Firefox? Any suggestions or is this just the nature of the beast?
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| Moz Champion (Dan) 2007-05-01, 1:12 pm |
| Big Shoe wrote:
> I have searched through the various posts on this subject and now know
> that I am not alone in being unable to play videos on many sites. For
> example, CNN does not work. Neither does MSN or MSNBC, but I can
> somewhat understand that. I have not been able to locate the problem,
> I keep gettting messages that various plugins are needed, and have
> installed everything it asks for, but still get the messages. I'm
> running Firefox 2.0.0.3. I can resolve this by opening those pages
> in IE, but if I do so many pages in IE, what's the point of using
> Firefox? Any suggestions or is this just the nature of the beast?
Lets do this on a page by page situation
Since you mentioned CNN by name, we will start there
Http://www.cnn.com?
hmmm, that defaults to
http://edition.cnn.com
I click on the Thabiti Boone image and it launches a popup in which the
video plays.
What do you get? Exactly - the specific error message (or other
artifact) displayed is what we are looking for
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| Big Shoe 2007-05-02, 1:13 am |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 17:56:49 GMT, "Moz Champion (Dan)"
<moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Big Shoe wrote:
>
>
>Lets do this on a page by page situation
>Since you mentioned CNN by name, we will start there
>Http://www.cnn.com?
>
>hmmm, that defaults to
>http://edition.cnn.com
>
>I click on the Thabiti Boone image and it launches a popup in which the
>video plays.
>
>What do you get? Exactly - the specific error message (or other
>artifact) displayed is what we are looking for
I get a popup that says:
The CNN com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9
or above
No Windows Media Player detected
Get the Player
Of course, I have the player, Version 10, and it works in IE but not
in Firefox
I have selected the "Get the Player" box, and it goes through the
motions of installing the player, but it does not change anything. I
have looked through the available add-ons but have not found anything
obvious there., so I am out of ideas.
If I try to run videos on MSN.com, I get a screen that tells me I need
to download Firefox version 1.5 and download Macromedia Flash Player.
Again, these videos run in IE.
Thanks for any help you can give on this as I'm not a great fan of
Microsoft and would rather stay with Firefox.
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| Moz Champion (Dan) 2007-05-02, 1:13 am |
| Big Shoe wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 17:56:49 GMT, "Moz Champion (Dan)"
> <moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> I get a popup that says:
>
> The CNN com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9
> or above
> No Windows Media Player detected
> Get the Player
>
> Of course, I have the player, Version 10, and it works in IE but not
> in Firefox
>
> I have selected the "Get the Player" box, and it goes through the
> motions of installing the player, but it does not change anything. I
> have looked through the available add-ons but have not found anything
> obvious there., so I am out of ideas.
>
> If I try to run videos on MSN.com, I get a screen that tells me I need
> to download Firefox version 1.5 and download Macromedia Flash Player.
> Again, these videos run in IE.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give on this as I'm not a great fan of
> Microsoft and would rather stay with Firefox.
I actually use QuickTime for the videos, but then I am on a Mac.
Did you install the WMP 10 into Firefox?
See this page for installation notes
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
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| Karl S 2007-05-02, 1:13 pm |
| On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:12:38 -0400, Big Shoe wrote:
> I have searched through the various posts on this subject and now know
> that I am not alone in being unable to play videos on many sites. For
> example, CNN does not work. Neither does MSN or MSNBC, but I can
> somewhat understand that. I have not been able to locate the problem,
> I keep gettting messages that various plugins are needed, and have
> installed everything it asks for, but still get the messages. I'm
> running Firefox 2.0.0.3. I can resolve this by opening those pages
> in IE, but if I do so many pages in IE, what's the point of using
> Firefox? Any suggestions or is this just the nature of the beast?
I often have this problem, especially with CNN. When I do, I start Firefox
in safe mode. If the videos play ok in safe mode, it usually means that the
problem is caused by one of my extensions. I then disable my extensions one
at a time to see which one is causing the problem.
I'm not a Firefox expert, but this works for me.
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| Big Shoe 2007-05-02, 1:13 pm |
| On Wed, 02 May 2007 03:46:21 GMT, "Moz Champion (Dan)"
<moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Big Shoe wrote:
>
>
>I actually use QuickTime for the videos, but then I am on a Mac.
>Did you install the WMP 10 into Firefox?
>See this page for installation notes
>http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html#WMP
I did everything your link called for - no help. I am beginning to
think you Mac users are onto something. Trying to keep a PC working
can be a hassle.
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| Big Shoe 2007-05-03, 1:12 pm |
| On Wed, 2 May 2007 06:48:17 -0700, Karl S <nospam@ak.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:12:38 -0400, Big Shoe wrote:
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>I often have this problem, especially with CNN. When I do, I start Firefox
>in safe mode. If the videos play ok in safe mode, it usually means that the
>problem is caused by one of my extensions. I then disable my extensions one
>at a time to see which one is causing the problem.
>
>I'm not a Firefox expert, but this works for me.
You are absolutely right, CNN videos do play if I start Firefox in
safe mode - great tip, thanks. I haven't started troubleshooting yet
to figure out which extension is causing the problem.
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| Jackson 2007-05-04, 7:12 pm |
| On Thu, 03 May 2007 09:30:27 -0400, Big Shoe
<j_shoe.removethis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2 May 2007 06:48:17 -0700, Karl S <nospam@ak.net> wrote:
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>You are absolutely right, CNN videos do play if I start Firefox in
>safe mode - great tip, thanks. I haven't started troubleshooting yet
>to figure out which extension is causing the problem.
Please post the extension if you identify it.
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