BoatBanter.com - Ping: John

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:06:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/28/2014 3:12 PM, Hank wrote:
On 1/28/2014 2:14 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:24:19 -0500, Hank 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:
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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.

Maybe He is not downloading the right flash version for his system and
windows version.

I'm downloading the most current version - which is supposed to work
in XP also.

Go to control panel/system and security/flash player/advanced.
You should have plug in version 12.0.0.43 and active x version 11.0.1.152

active x. You may be onto something.

Just went through all the active x controls in IE8.

No help.