ie11 Not Showing Embedded Videos

[JohnM40]

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 with latest MS updates 64 bit

Dell XPS 410 desktop.

Embedded videos in IE11 do not how up. In Firefox not a problem. Uninstalled and re- installed Adobe Flash Player. Still not working.

Shut down Windows Firewall no change.

suggestions?

 

[Tookeri]

Are you sure it's Flash videos? You can test the plugin here: Adobe - Flash Player

Also note that it's separate Adobe Flash installs for Firefox and IE. IE's is the ActiveX one, and Plugin is the Firefox one if you check your installed programs.

 

[JohnM40]

Interesting that looking in Manage Add-ons it shows Adobe Flash Player enabled yet when going to Adobe website per your link an checking to see if Adobe installed it says it is Not installed. So I downloaded and installed again with the same result "not installed".

The plug-in for Firefox is installed and working.

 

[Tookeri]

Do you perhaps have ActiveX-filtering enabled in IE? ActiveX Filtering

 

[JohnM40]

It is enabled

 

[JohnM40]

Okay unchecked ActiveX filtering and Adobe says I have Flash Player installed , but the embedded video still does not show up on website

 

[Tookeri]

ActiveX-filtering means you need to turn that off on EVERY site you want ActiveX objects to be allowed.

 

[Tookeri]

Sorry, did you disable ActiveX-filtering totally or just disabled it on the adobe site?

This is how you turn if off on only a web site, in this example it's for the site MSN.com

 

[JohnM40]

Got it. So with ActiveX filtering shut off for all websites I need to find solutions to problem that the embedded video on the ebsite will not show up on the web page.

 

[Tookeri]

Yes. Just to be clear, to turn it off completely you uncheck it from: Tools

> Safety > ActiveX Filtering

You should also note that not all videos on web sites are Flash Videos. Silverlight by Microsoft is also common. Here's a test page: Microsoft Silverlight

If you give me an example of a video site that doesn't work for you I can check what type it is.

 

[JohnM40]

I uncheck it from: Tools > Safety > ActiveX Filtering.

Checked MS installed updates and it shows last update of Silverlight installed Oct 1 and Manage Add-ons shows enabled.

Here is link Long Long Honeymoon | #Loloho » Blog Archive » VIDEO: How to Back Up a Travel Trailer

 

[Tookeri]

I see two videos: the first is from YouTube and uses Flash Player. The second is from Vimeo and doesn't require Flash or Silverlight. It's a HTML5 video. What videos can you watch?

 

[JohnM40]

The video I cannot see is the first Video: How to backup Your Travel Trailer. Interesting that I can go to Youtube and watch the video using IE11

 

[Tookeri]

Can you watch it from YouTube embedded? www.youtube.com/embed/lzlOfBGr1i4

And normally from YouTube? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlOfBGr1i4

 

[JohnM40]

I can watch from both links.

 

[Tookeri]

Ok. Then it's not a Flash problem, but more likely a site problem or perhaps restriction. Do you use the concept of "Trusted Sites"? If so, have you enabled different security settings for the Internet Zone and the "Trusted Sites" Zone?

JavaScript is required to view Flash videos, and if you don't allow it globally this might explain the problem.

 

[JohnM40]

Do not use concept of "Trusted Sites". I have everything set to default

 

[Tookeri]

Then hopefully it's only a rare site specific problem.

For YouTube you can always try to switch to the HTML5 player instead of Flash. Go to www.youtube.com/html5 and click "Request the HTML5 player". To change back to Flash you click the "Use the default player" button.

 

[JohnM40]

Thanks for all your great help

 

[Tookeri]

You're welcome!

One last tip:
Most videos work with HTML5 player, but not all. If you set the HTML5 player as default on YouTube and you find a video that won't work with the HTML5 player, there's a trick so you can play it with Flash without changing your default player:

change youtube.com/watch?v=lzlOfBGr1i4 to youtube.com/v/lzlOfBGr1i4

Remove watch?v= from the URL and replace it with v/
This will force the use of Flash Player

So if you have set the HTML5 player as default you should be able to choose:
HTML5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlOfBGr1i4
Flash: www.youtube.com/v/lzlOfBGr1i4

You can right-click a video to show a pop-up menu that will show what player is used(at the bottom of the menu), example:
"About the HTML5 Player" or "About Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.189"

Now I think I've covered everything