Running FlashPlayer

fredex fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Sat Jan 20 21:13:20 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:45:54PM +0000, Mark Knoop wrote:
> On 20/01/07, fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:25:37PM +0000, Mark Knoop wrote:
> >> On 20/01/07, jim tate <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> >I have the new release candidate, ver.
> >> >flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm9 of Flash installed, but I can't
> >> >play Flash videos on Foxnews, i can get audio but no video.
> >> >I can play the Flash videos on Yahoo, no problems.
> >> >What gives??
> >>
> >> Hmm, both work for me so we'll need some more information. I assume
> >> you're using firefox: try creating a clean profile and test in that.
> >>
> >> firefox -ProfileManager
> >>
> >> (Or perhaps it's just your computer telling you not to watch Foxviews.)
> >
> >Same problem here. I hadn't noticed since I never watch fox news,
> >but I do reproduce it. Latest Linux firefox and latest (released,
> >not beta) Flash plugin. works on video.google.com, youtube, spiegel.com,
> >etc., but not Fox.
> 
> That's weird. I wish it didn't work for me too...

After my earlier post I went and tried it with Konqueror and it
won't play them either. In fact there's no audio and it seems to just
hang. Must be something weird about Fox News (as if we didn't already
know that! :)


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