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:
Here is the embedding URL I used:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249"></script><noscript>Watch the latest news video at <a href="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.
Every other video site I have visited will play nice--YouTube, Google Video, everyone. What is wrong with Fox?
Am I missing a plugin, perhaps? Here's the output of about:plugins on my browser:
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Installed plugins Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org. Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org. Shockwave Flash
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Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
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Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
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Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
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Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
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