computer people. i cannot get the CNN videos. i alway played them

[seabeyond]

and then i couldnt, nada. they wont play.

has anyone experienced this and know what i can do. i didnt do anything to my computer that i know about. it just was and then wasnt.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Yes.

It's hit and miss for me. It's like that with a lot of embedded video.

I've never figured out why, but I'm assuming it's my crappy computer.

[seabeyond]

4. i dont have a crappy computer.... i know what you mean, but that isnt the case

and they use to work just fine, whatever whenever

[life_long_dem]

2. Could you post a link to one of the videos? I'll see if it works for me.

[seabeyond]

5. none of the video works. it goes to the page and just sits there, never totally fills in

odd

[life_long_dem]

8. Try deleting your temporary internet files, cookies and browsing history.

I do that when videos on you tube aren't working. It sux to lose your browsing history.

[seabeyond]

11. thanks

all i know is browsing history. but i will save this for hubby when he gets home. one of the bummers last decade having someone who knows computers. i dont know or havent learned anything about the computer

[life_long_dem]

22. This may help you also. From CNN's help page.

http://www.cnn.com/help/live.html#5

[HereSince1628]

3. I've had the same problem. The new video players ask Vista for persmission

As I am stuck with Vista I've got to go in and alter the Vista settings.

I haven't done it, but I've looked at the instructions. They include rather intimidating warnings.

So....I've just decided to wait and live without many videos until after the Spring semester when I can seriously spend time on understanding the re-configurations.

The odd thing about my circumstance is that YouTubes run fine if they are placed on DU, but if they aren't the video player balks.

[seabeyond]

6. i do maddow videos, tyt, youtube. all videos. the only ones i am seeing i dont get anymore

is cnn.

i will let hubby read your post. he is a computer guy, and worked on it a bit, but didnt find it. had to go watch a boxing match.

if he can find an easy way, i will tell you

[HereSince1628]

7. I found directions (who knows if they work?) at a site for the Adobe player

In general, it looks like a lot of messing around inside Vista and I'm not very familiar with it.

My video started crapping out in late March when the first version 10 player got downloaded onto my machine.
The SO downloaded new versions everytime there was a failure. I must have about 10 updated versions which undoubtedly makes things worse.

[seabeyond]

9. that is one thing i did do to computer different. hubby put on vista. i didnt download

for the longest time. when i did finally download it was around this time.

i cant do it either. but i am gathering info for when he gets home. i dont know nada about computers

and i dont want to either, lol

thanks

[life_long_dem]

13. I think you are supposed to remove previous versions of Flash Player

before installing the latest version.

[HereSince1628]

23. Yes, I think that is correct

Unfortunately, I'm not the only person using the computer.

[blogslut]

10. You may need to upgrade your Flash player

or CNN's Octoshape plugin

[seabeyond]

15. thanks blogslut. i know he worked on flashplayer. he thought that was the

problem. but i dont know about octoshape. i will let him know

appreciate

it got coooooooold. and of course, i planted flowers last weekend

[blogslut]

17. Yes, I hope we get some rain

As for the Octoshape plugin, I think CNN will give you a prompt to download it. Then again, I'm on XP and have no idea what goes on when viewing CNN videos on Vista.

EDIT ADD: Found the plugin page:http://www.octoshape.com/plugin/get.asp

[seabeyond]

21. excellent. thank you blogslut. n/t

[wroberts189]

12. Try firefox and IE ...also shutdown and restart. nt

[wroberts189]

14. dupe -self delete

[footinmouth]

16. You are not alone

I've had issues with the Flash Player for quite a while on this Vista machine. The machine running XP is just fine. I just upgraded some other Adobe software the other day and now the Flash Player is completely broken.

Try downloading the Firefox browser, install the Flash Player from there and see if it works. Mine works in Firefox, not in IE7. Good luck. I feel your pain.

[seabeyond]

20. vista.... rollin eyes. lol lol. XP did me just fine.

just hope hubby doesnt see this when he reads the thread, lol lol. tired of people bitchin about vista.

[Jackeens]

18. CNN live streaming/videos won't play for me in Firefox (since last update), but do play in Safari.

Not sure if that's your issue, seabeyond?

PS I should mention I use a Mac - I didn't update Firefox on my MacBook and CNN videos work fine, but I did update it on my iMac and they won't play at all, only work on Safari.

[seabeyond]

19. betcha it is. like i told another player, didnt update forever. when i did

it was about the time cnn stopped.