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Flash videos won't play on certain sites
I have IE9 on my desktop. Today I went to a site I have used many times (local news website) and the videos would not play. They show the thumbnail but when play is pressed it goes black. No video or audio, nothing.
I checked another local news site site and the videos there would not play. But videos play fine on other sites such as Youtube, Yahoo News etc. So it is not a complete failure of Flash Player.
I also have a Win 7 laptop with the same version of IE9 and the sites that won't play videos on my desktop work just fine there. So is it something unique to the desktop as opposed to the browser?
Here is what I did to troubleshoot, note Flash Player is up to date, v12.0.0.77:
1. Installed IE10 - No difference, videos still won't play. Reverted back to IE9 since that is what the laptop has.
2. Ran IE10 with no add-ons. Vides would not play.
3. Installed Firefox - Videos would not play --- very concerning as this means the problem is not unique to IE.
4. Installed Chrome - Videos play fine --- Now I'm really confused. It seems as if Chrome may use a different program to render (if that is the right term) as it says "upLynk version 14021902" when you right click on the video. Still Flash Player though.
Stumped at this point. Looking for suggestions/help in getting this resolved. Thank you
Last edited by bru; 15 Mar 2014 at 11:23.