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Fixit7

10-19-2015 01:27 PM

This browser does not support video playback.

When I go here and try to play the videos, I get "This browser does not support video playback'.

Anyone know why or if there is a fix ?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/entert...eat/index.html

John VV

10-19-2015 06:46 PM

have you installed a video player ?
and the codec's ?
what browser are you using ?
firefox?
chrome ?
what ?

have you installed flash -- if needed ?

and so on with the 20 questions

Fixit7

10-19-2015 07:28 PM

vlc

seamonkey

I have flash.

How do I determine what codecs I have ?

frankbell

10-19-2015 09:30 PM

I was able to duplicate the problem in Seamonkey v. 2.38 on Slackware --Current. I have User Agent Switcher and changed the user agent to the default and to IE (it was set to Slackware), still with no luck.

I am normally able to play embedded videos on this combination. I also could not play the CNN videos on Firefox v. 41 on this same computer.

Fixit7

10-20-2015 08:12 AM

Thanks for your feedback.

kerrymanbren

10-21-2015 03:18 AM

Hi all,
I'm also having this problem on some sites. My browser is FF 41.02 running on Debian 8.2 with relevant extensions installed. The problem seems to be HTML 5 related. The latest version of Flash is also installed which I would have thought the browser would default to if HTML 5 doesn't work. When videos do play the actions of Play and Pause are reversed. All very strange behaviour.

I have searched extensively, without any luck, for a solution. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Kb.

Fixit7

10-21-2015 01:35 PM

If it is Html 5 related, then that would indicate an error in the code for the site.

It is very rare, so I think it will become even more rare in the future.

In my case, it was a Force Awakens video.

I was able to view it successfully on another site.

kerrymanbren

10-21-2015 06:16 PM

Thanks Andy,
Oh, the joys of being at the forefront of technology ;-)
Cheers
Kb

ardvark71

10-21-2015 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kerrymanbren (Post 5438238)

Thanks Andy,
Oh, the joys of being at the forefront of technology ;-)
Cheers

Hi...

Welcome to the forum, by the way. :)

Regards...

Timothy Miller

10-21-2015 07:55 PM

Yup, just tried on Debian Stretch, Chrome has no issues, Firefox gets a black screen and doesn't play. :(

rokytnji

10-21-2015 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fixit7 (Post 5437017)

When I go here and try to play the videos, I get "This browser does not support video playback'.

Anyone know why or if there is a fix ?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/entert...eat/index.html

Quote:

for old puppy distro, i have uploaded chromium-37.0.2062.94.sfs flash version 17.0.0.188, i have test, lina-1.3 precise-5.7.1 slacko-5.5.0 slacko-5.7.0 maybe you need extra libs lib6+libstdc6-4.9.2.pet nspr_nss.pet see here the libs nspr_nss.txt
Note:Maybe to need upgrade in the last version the mozilla firefox.
Last edited by kost@s on Fri 10 Jul 2015, 07:33; edited 28 times in total

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90983

As usual. Unistall through PPM if not successful.
CNN embedded twitter site video link is Linux 11.2 adobe flash player unfriendly. Friendly with pepperflash.
Up to you.

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