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18 April 2008

Ask MeCha: (UK version) Is anyone else having problems viewing embedded media on the BBC News website?[More:]

The BBC recently moved to an embedded Adobe Flash media player on its news website. I'm finding that when I click on a link in Firefox, I get the 'end screen', as if I've already watched the video. Clicking the 'play' button, or anywhere else in the player for that matter, does nothing.

Googling tells me that this is the same media player that CNN uses. Embedded video on the CNN site plays perfectly in Firefox.

I can also play the embedded media from the BBC if I use IE. But in Firefox it just will not work. Reporting the problem to the BBC gets no response.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Adobe Flash plugin. I have javascript, cookies, and Flashblock all granting permission to this site.

Any ideas?
Works for me. Do you have the most recent Firefox version (2.0.0.14)?
posted by matthewr 18 April | 16:26
Yes I do.
posted by essexjan 18 April | 16:34
I don't have a problem, but I'm getting really annoyed with the amount of video they're posting. A great deal of the time, it's completely unnecessary and slows down the page load. If it carries on at this rate, I'll be going elsewhere for my news.
posted by TheDonF 18 April | 16:52
The short-term solution would be to set up Firefox's IE Tab extension to always view BBC pages with IE's rendering engine inside Firefox. This is more-or-less transparent to you as a user.

Could you Flashblock or Adblock it, TheDonF?
posted by matthewr 18 April | 17:05
Gah! I give up. I'll just have to right-click and select the 'IE view' option.
posted by essexjan 18 April | 18:10
I think it is pixies. Or possibly invisible magic gremlins.
posted by terrapin 18 April | 22:05
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