On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 08:25 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:41 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > > Lately I've had troubles watching the clips on cnn.com. It's very > > strange, when I select a video from the main cnn page, the clip starts, > > plays a few frames (sometimes more sometimes less), then it stops and the > > image goes blank. > > > I have the same behavior with cnn. But the same video plays froom one of > the other places on the web site with current videos. No idea why. > > Also, on www.dbfx.com there is a flash window that should display some > > information (currency prices) in real time, but it doesn't, its all blank > > to begin with. > > > > Does anybody have any clue what the problem might be? Other sites with > > flash media work ok (e.g. youtube, google video). This is what I have: > > As several other posters have remarked, I see the currency prices, no prob. I am running Sun's java. It does take some hoop jumping through to install it, but I no longer have any problems with sites that are java scripted. You may wish to consider going that route. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================