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Strange video problem
MSRadell:
I have a really strange problem viewing some videos on my laptop. Most videos come up just fine but on a few websites they won't come up matter what I do. I have the latest version of flash player installed as well as Java and directX 11. I have no idea what I need to get the videos to work on the websites that they don't work on. One of them that I have the problem consistently on its is one: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/347845-texas-just-suckerpunched-michelles-school-lunch-rules-bringing-back-one-students-favorite-food/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter&utm_medium=owned although there are some others. I've even tried doing a reinstall of the operating system (Windows 7x64 Pro SP1) and it didn't make any difference.
System specs are shown in the attached Speccy screen capture.
Any ideas are appreciated!
Boggin:
That video played fine for me in IE 11, although he can hardly lecture anyone on healthy eating - the size of him - probably too many Texas steaks :D
Not sure if this MS Fix it will do anything for you https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/mats/video_freezes_or_crashes but have you tried another browser ?
Resetting IE to defaults or running it without add-ons may give an improvement or try the videos in Safe Mode with Networking or in a clean boot should something on your computer be causing a conflict.
MSRadell:
--- Quote from: Boggin on June 23, 2015, 03:12:13 am ---That video played fine for me in IE 11, although he can hardly lecture anyone on healthy eating - the size of him - probably too many Texas steaks :D
Not sure if this MS Fix it will do anything for you https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/mats/video_freezes_or_crashes but have you tried another browser ?
Resetting IE to defaults or running it without add-ons may give An improvement or try the videos in Safe Mode with Networking or in a clean boot should something on your computer be causing a conflict.
--- End quote ---
They do open fine when I try them in Chrome on the same PC. They don't work in safe mode with networking or with all add-ins disabled in the IE. Something is preventing them from running in IE and since I have to use IE for a couple of other things I need to correct the problem.
Boggin:
Chrome has its own Flash Player and as it also doesn't work in Safe Mode with Networking then it isn't a 3rd party program that's causing the problem either and nails it down to IE.
When you try to view videos is there a blue No Entry symbol in the URL search box - you would get this when ActiveX Filtering is enabled which can block video content.
This can be disabled by clicking on the Tools cog/Safety and unchecking the ActiveX Filtering box.
If you don't have that, try an IE reset with all boxes checked.
MSRadell:
--- Quote from: Boggin on June 23, 2015, 09:22:28 am ---Chrome has its own Flash Player and as it also doesn't work in Safe Mode with Networking then it isn't a 3rd party program that's causing the problem either and nails it down to IE.
When you try to view videos is there a blue No Entry symbol in the URL search box - you would get this when ActiveX Filtering is enabled which can block video content.
This can be disabled by clicking on the Tools cog/Safety and unchecking the ActiveX Filtering box.
If you don't have that, try an IE reset with all boxes checked.
--- End quote ---
I don't get anything where a video should be on the websites that I can't see on. I've reset everything several times in IE and have even gone so far as uninstalling IE 11 and reverting back to IE 8 that is part of windows 7. It has to be something strange that's missing from the installation that I can't find. Videos work fine on some websites including YouTube.
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