From jwendel10@comcast.net Fri Jun  5 20:22:35 2015
From: John Wendel <jwendel10@comcast.net>
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:24:45 -0700
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On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos 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~y2010m3=
d31-Census-bureau-can-only-blame-itself-for-nonresponse>
>
> Here is the embedding URL I used:
>
> <script type=3D"text/javascript"
> src=3D"http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=3D4106724&w=3D400&h=3D249"></=
script><noscript>Watch
> the latest news video at<a
> href=3D"http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
>
> And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
>
> if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')<  0) { document.write(''); }
>
> And that's it.
>
[snip]

Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2,

> Shockwave Flash
>
>     File: libflashplayer.so
>     Version:
>     Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51

Time to update your browser.

Regards,

John



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