Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

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On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Temlakos wrote:
>On 03/31/2010 02:41 PM, Trever L. Adams wrote:
>> On 03/31/2010 10:40 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>> On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakos<temlakos@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>> I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not
>>>> wanting to play, because perhaps I have some more information that
>>>> might provide a clue.
>>>>
>>>> Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding
>>>> link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my
>>>> Fedora 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another
>>>> machine that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there,
>>>> and to get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an
>>>> article I wrote.
>>>>
>>>> And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't
>>>> play.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2
>>>>010m3d31-Census-bureau-can-only-blame-itself-for-nonresponse>
>>>
>>> Plays here just fine with:
>>>
>>> $ firefox --version
>>> Mozilla Firefox 3.5.8, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
>>>
>>> $ uname -r
>>> 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64
>>>
>>> Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
>>
>> I have the same problem.
>> $ firefox --version
>> Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2010 mozilla.org
>>
>> 2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64
>>
>> flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386
>>
>> Trever
>
>How does it look? On my system, whenever I load a page having a video
>from Fox (like the page with the above link, a page I created myself, by
>the way), all I get is a top and bottom bar, with viewing controls not
>even appearing, much less functioning.
>
>I'm still using a 32-bit kernel, so you and I aren't using the same
>kernel. Not that I would expect that to matter.
>
So am I, using a 32 bit kernel.
[root@coyote grub]# uname -r
2.6.34-rc3

>I tried installing the Greasemonkey add-on, and a script for "Fox News
>friendly videos." No joy.

I don't recall if I have greasemonkey running or not, but the latter I never 
heard of.  And no, greasemonkey is not now listed in the addons.

>Temlakos
>


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