Ooooh my mooovies!!

February 6, 2008 6:46 PM

Why does youtube, dailymotion, myspace and other medias work on some websites but not on others?

I'm not sure if this is a problem I'm having with firefox or not but I can't watch online videos. It's a weird problem that just appeared. Blogs that I've been watching videos on for a while just started acting up so I'm thinking it's a problem with my computer.

Problems include: Color substituted for a grey scale and looking very "digitalized", lack of audio, pausing at the 2 second mark.

thoughts?

posted by Wanderlust88 to technology (3 comments total)

Did you install an ad blocker plugin?
posted by gjc at 6:50 PM on February 6

I did not install a 3rd party plug-in adblocker, but firefox comes with a built in ad-blocker.
posted by Wanderlust88 at 7:28 PM on February 6

I had this problem a few days ago -- videos would pause at two seconds, and other forms of embedded media lacked sound. This happened with Firefox only, and restarting the browser did nothing (rebooting fixed it temporarily, though). The problem turned out to be with Flash, and from what I read, it's looking like a widespread issue. Downgrading to an earlier version of Flash fixed it for me.
posted by Rhaomi at 8:30 PM on February 6