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This browser does not support video playback

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  • 06-10-2015 5:13pm
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    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭


    Using latest Firefox 41.0.1. Trying to play the Twitter videos on this page, for example, I get the message "This browser does not support video playback". No problems on youtube.com.


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    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭eman66


    Anyone play these videos in Firefox?


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    Ant695
    Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Ant695


    eman66 wrote: »
    Using latest Firefox 41.0.1. Trying to play the Twitter videos on this page, for example, I get the message "This browser does not support video playback". No problems on youtube.com.

    Is it a work pc or a personal pc? If it's work could be that twitter, facebook etc are blocked.


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    jsa112
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    I got the same problem, has something to do with outdated flash. I cant fix it as my mac is old and flash no longer has updates for it, but can still get to see the videos with chrome

    So, try update flash


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    eman66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭eman66


    It's my home PC. Have the latest Firefox and the latest Flash. You would think two of the biggest internet technologies would work together. Doesn't work on breakingnews.ie either.

    The flash test page works fine:

    http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/


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    [Deleted User]
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    Check your Firefox add-ons, could you have something that spoofs the user agent and tricks websites into thinking it's a different browser?


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    mordeith
    Registered Users Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    eman66 wrote: »
    It's my home PC. Have the latest Firefox and the latest Flash. You would think two of the biggest internet technologies would work together. Doesn't work on breakingnews.ie either.

    The flash test page works fine:

    http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

    It might be something to do with your browser defaulting to using HTML5 instead of Flash.


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    J0nney
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    The video codec is not supported by the operating system and the browser.

    If you have Windows XP and firefox you will get this problem trying to play twitter videos and others.

    One solution is to install Google Chrome, another would be to upgrade your Windows. Firefox plugins or 3rd party codecs will not fix the problem.


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    Install chrome it,ll have the latest version of flash .


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    J0nney
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭J0nney


    The problem has nothing to do with the version of Flash being used. The problem is the missing codec h264. Google Chrome has codec h264 which is required to play most of Twitter videos. Flash is not the problem, the problem is that Windows XP and Firefox do not have this codec built in and will not play h264 videos over the internet even if you have the latest Flash.

    If you have Windows XP then install Chrome to support playing these h264 videos over the internet or install a Windows that supports h264.

    Basically Firefox is the problem, but they would not agree. They are not going to directly support h264 just because the unsupported old Windows XP doesnt have it.


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