Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

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On 03/31/2010 10:24 AM, john wendel wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos 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>
>>
>> Here is the embedding URL I used:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>> src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=249";></script><noscript>Watch
>> the latest news video at<a
>> href="http://video.foxnews.com/";>video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
>>
>> And now: here is what that script embed.js contains:
>>
>> if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')<   0) { document.write(''); }
>>
>> And that's it.
>>
>>      
> [snip]
>
> Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2,
>
>    
>> Shockwave Flash
>>
>>      File: libflashplayer.so
>>      Version:
>>      Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51
>>      
> Time to update your browser.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
>    

Then you recommend abandoning the Fedora build and going directly to 
Mozilla for their latest RPM?

And the same with Flash? I'm using "R45"; you have "D51."

Temlakos
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