Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play

On 03/31/2010 07:37 AM, Temlakos wrote:
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

Well, I see from other replies that the Fedora build will play these
videos properly, so, NO I would not recommend going directly to Mozilla
for their browser. I'm not sure where the Flash came from, probably
Adobe's website.

I enjoy "breaking" my system, so I often run non-fedora releases of
stuff. The Mozilla version of Firefox didn't run correctly
out-of-the-box on my (F11) system. To make it work I had to set the
environment with "export CANBERRA_DRIVER=null" before running Firefox.

I installed Firefox in my home directory (/home/john/firefox) and kept
the Fedora version.

Regards,

John
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