Flash in the Pan.

July 23, 2009 6:08 PM

How come I can't view the baseball video clips on MLB.com linked in this MeFi thread?

I don't have a problem viewing other flash sites. Running Vista / Firefox / NoScript / allowed cookies. Downloaded latest Flash player. I get a quick line saying "loading related content", and it stays blank.

posted by weapons-grade pandemonium to computers & internet (18 comments total)

Did you allow an exception for the page in noscript?
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 6:17 PM on July 23

Do you have an adblocker installed?
posted by smackfu at 6:18 PM on July 23

Yes. Scripts allowed.
I have Adblock Plus, but it shows 0 items out of 109 blocked.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 6:26 PM on July 23

This isn't one of those "Only viewable in USA" things, is it?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 6:27 PM on July 23

I always have trouble with these clips too. The only solution I've found so far is to disable Adblock altogether.
posted by kjackelen05 at 6:38 PM on July 23

It didn't work for me in Safari on a Mac, and I'm in the US.
posted by Pants! at 6:39 PM on July 23

This isn't one of those "Only viewable in USA" things, is it?

Data point: Visible from Australia (XP, FF3.5.1)
posted by Suspicious Ninja at 7:02 PM on July 23

No luck here, either - in the US - on Safari or FF, with AdBlock disabled (though not uninstalled). I saw a herky-jerky version over RDC to my work box (Windows) on IE. Guess I'll wait for the sports news later.
posted by rtha at 7:29 PM on July 23

Yep. Disabling AdBlock worked.
posted by rtha at 7:32 PM on July 23

Data point: Visible from Australia (Ubuntu Hardy, Firefox 3.0.11, Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4, NoScript 1.3.2)
posted by flabdablet at 7:35 PM on July 23

I've always had the same problem on my Mac. It used to work in Safari but not FF, now it works in neither.
posted by Venadium at 8:31 PM on July 23

Anything weird or bad in the Error Console (Ctrl-Shift-J)?
posted by Fraxas at 8:53 PM on July 23

(Ctrl-Shift-J) gives me downloads. Empty.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:33 PM on July 23

Are you using a modified hosts file?

Specifically, do you see a 404 page at http://mlbcom.112.2o7.net/ and a placeholder page at http://ad.doubleclick.net/? Both of those need to work before you could see video, otherwise you'd get stuck at "loading related content".
posted by aiko at 12:23 AM on July 24

Actually, it looks like Omniture (2o7) isn't necessary, only doubleclick. Do you see a cross-domain-policy when you click on http://ad.doubleclick.net/crossdomain.xml? I double-checked, and not being able to retrieve that file definitely results in a "loading related content" message followed by a blank screen.
posted by aiko at 1:18 AM on July 24

I do see the cross-domain policy. You may have it, aiko. I haven't modified my hosts file on this computer. I deleted doubleclick entries from my adblocker. Still won't load. Where is it blocked?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:36 AM on July 24

w-gp, have you actually disabled Adblock entirely? Not just for the site that's trying to load the mlb clips, but gone to tools/add-ons/manage and clicked the "disable" button? That's what made it work for me.
posted by rtha at 9:11 AM on July 24

Disabled Ad Block. Restarted FireFox. Enabled cookies and third party cookies. Set NoScript to "temporarily allow all of this page". Still nothing.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:36 AM on July 24