On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:22:39 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/28/2014 10:07 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/28/2014 9:53 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/28/2014 9:47 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/28/14, 9:41 AM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article , says...



Have you tried Windows tech support? IE, after all, is a Microsoft
product. The techies there should be able to fix you up.

It not an IE problem. I have IE10 and have no issues.
Probaby Firefox is causing the problem.
My wife uses Firefox because she likes big icons on her screen
for shortcuts to shopping sites.



That *you* have no issues with IE doesn't mean that others have no
issues, too. What is it with these universal pronouncements?

Herring said he had issues -the same issues, in this case- with Firefox
and IE.


I've become really curious as to what John's problem is. Obviously
there is a common denominator somewhere that affects both IE and Firefox
but not Chrome.

I've had issues with Firefox not playing a video in the past but IE
*would*. It was always because Firefox was missing some plug-in and
installing it fixed the problem.

But why his computer won't play them in IE as well is a mystery to me.




Was just thinking about this. Many videos today are in .mp4 format
because it supports high definition files. Windows XP or Vista can not
naturally play .mp4 files. You have to use something like Quicktime to
view them. Maybe you can add the proper codec to allow it, but I've
never researched that. XP and Vista can play mpeg, avi and wmv video
files naturally but not .mp4 Windows 7 added .mp4 viewing capability.

On a browser an .mp4 is typically played in Adobe's Flash player which
makes them viewable, even though XP and Vista won't play a natural .mp4.

Given that, and since both IE and Firefox won't play videos (and I think
John said he has an XP machine) I suspect the problem is the Flash
player settings in IE and Firefox. Somehow when he installed Chrome,
the Flash player settings were incorporated.




I also thought at one point that "Adblock" was causing a conflict for
John. I've been using Adblock for so long that I forgot what browsers,
videos and even Facebook looked like without Adblock enabled, so I
temporarily disabled it. OMG! What a mess! Many YouTube videos make
you watch a 20-30 second advertisement before running the video. Same
with most of the network videos from news channels. Turned Adblock back
on fast.

Adblock doesn't block advertisements on HULU videos, I noticed. And
some of the network videos are catching on. I went to watch a video
posted by ABC news the other day and a notice came up to the effect of:

"We were unable to load the advertisement that precedes this video.
Advertisements allow us to bring you the latest" ... blah, blah, blah.
Meanwhile, a 25 second countdown was running and when it reached zero,
the video played.

It's not Adblock. I did the on and off bit with that after you mentioned it last time.