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snick27
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May 1, 2011
Question

Flash Player wont play videos on yahoo or abc news but plays youtube?

  • May 1, 2011
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Windows 7,

Flash 10.2

Windows Firewall off

Tried IE8,Firefox 4,Chrome,Maxthon.

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/now/two-and-a-half-men-star-angus-t-jones-is-all-grown-up/98?nc

Cant play that.

or this

http://oddnews.yahoo.com/video-odd-news-25053808

But no problem playing youtube vids.

I have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled Flash player and those vids wont play.

What can cause those not to play not just in IE8, but Firefox and Chrome?

But this link works

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/cullman-alabama-destroyed-tornado-13494740?tab=9482930&section=1206853&playlist=13495119

Please help!

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      Anonymous
      May 2, 2011

      Hi, The oddnews link played ok for me(XP/SP3). I don't have Win7 so can't test on that. However under the Help section is this you may want to review: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/technical/;_ylt=AsvmX6X1dZvvFvUS.tVvfw9.FiR4

      Now I have hardware acceleration ON and the latest vs of FP as well. I did notice that when right clicking on the above video when it was playing that I could choose low/medium/high. I had it on high and didn't have any audio or video issues.

      Some Yahoo videos just have a problem. I'd search that Help section and if that doesn't help, contact Yahoo. You never know how the video that doesn't play is coded so that's what I think. If it won't play on any browser, then it's probably the video.

      Youtube is a good indicator and that's what I'd go by.

      Be careful roaming around without your Firewall on, too many bad guys out there! Just looking for an opening.

      Thanks,

      eidnolb

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