Fox News Channels videos won't play

Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 20:51:46 UTC 2010


--- On Wed, 3/31/10, 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>

Article displays properly & video plays.  No problems.

Fedora 12.  Firefox 3.5.8-1.fc12.  Flash 10.0 r45 Alpha.  kernel 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.x86_64.  Everything 64-bit, including plugins, the list of which at first glance looks similar to yours, just all 64-bit.

> Here is the embedding URL I used:
> [snip]
___________________________
> 
> Installed plugins
> Find more information about browser plugins at
> mozilla.org.
> Help for installing plugins is available from
> plugindoc.mozdev.org.
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>      File name:
> nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so
>      Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
> 
> MIME Type     Description 
> [big snip]

From a later response of yours, you said you're all 32-bit--OS, Firefox, plugins, etc.  Yes?  Then why do you have nspluginwrapper installed?  It's not needed.  nspluginwrapper is meant to run 32-bit plugins on 64-bit browsers.  You're all 32-bit.  Maybe, this is the problem.

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