Fox News Channels videos won't play

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 16:40:29 UTC 2010


On 31 March 2010 06:49, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> 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~y2010m3d31-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

> Temlakos
> --

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