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Wednesday, 2 July 2008

From Capt Craig....

'For some reason all your video clips stop after only a few seconds. The load bar shows that the clip loads to completion but the damn thing will not play. Every one of the other sites I visit give me no problem. Wazzup? This has only happened since I had to get a new puter and was forced to use Vista. Might there be a connection, old chap? I am getting frustrated as I really do get off on some of your aviation stuff because I am a sulphurous old retired fighter pilot.'


Anyone know the solution to this problem?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most likely it is a Firefox problem and Flash animation. Google "video stops after 2 seconds" to see numerous problems with this.

It happened to me after upgrading to Firefox 3. For me, installing the Firefox add-on Flashblock did the trick.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433)

Cheers,

Russ

Anonymous said...

Must be something else. They work for me, and I've had Vista from the start. Try googling your problem.

Anonymous said...

I have the same problem on my PC which runs XP when I view the site with Firefox, but it works ok if I use IE.

On my laptop which has Vista, the site works ok with Firefox. I think it may be a security setting on Vista because iPlayer doesn't work.

Go figure...

Anonymous said...

Same problem with me when I use any other browser other than IE. I will try the flash block on firefox and see if that works.

Anonymous said...

I am the 0826 poster. Just d/l and installed the flashblock the 1st post suggested, works fine now.

Thanks

Anonymous said...

I had the same problem with XP and Firefox. I updated Flash and it's all good now.

Anonymous said...

Fear & loathing of Bill Gates (without whom probably nothing would work)& Windows is usually the problem...the thought that ANY alternative is better. Get a life.
Contrary to wishful thinking, WinXP is (relatively) problem-free & if you do your maintenance regularly you'll encounter no cardiac arrest.

Lord Nazh said...

Happens to me (XP and Vista) if the comps have been on a long time; restarting (to clear out leaked memory) fixes it up (or if I'd shut the @%@#% down at night I'd have no worries :)

Anonymous said...

By golly, the Firefox add-on Flashblock did the trick for me too. Jeez, what a great blog. Not only do I agree with its political and military views, but I now have solved the video freeze-up I have been experiencing since installing Firefox 3.

Like I said - what a GREAT blog.

William Gruff said...

Problem sorted. Many thanks Russtovich.

Capt.Craig said...

Bingo! Thanks Russ. Works like a charm.