Firefox and Flash?
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For some reason today I cannot play flash on Firefox on my C5 site (specifically using the Media Library addon) Can't even get video to play in filemanager to assign a thumbnail. Seems to work on IE, Chrome and Safari. Has something changed with Firefox or Adobe recently or have I screwed up my site somehow? I'm using the Miser script (concrete on steroids) but that should affect all browsers, correct?
Its not working in my version of firefox either? Im running 3.6
I attempted with and without the flash update but neither worked.
It appears to get stuck Transferring data from the site.
And apart from the validatation errors I can see no real cause?
hmm ok after a couple of refreshes the content now plays
and subsequent page loads now load the videos almost instantly.
Ill suggest it now although no idea if its a cause or problem? but could it be a cache issue?
The initial page load for me was very long.
I attempted with and without the flash update but neither worked.
It appears to get stuck Transferring data from the site.
And apart from the validatation errors I can see no real cause?
hmm ok after a couple of refreshes the content now plays
and subsequent page loads now load the videos almost instantly.
Ill suggest it now although no idea if its a cause or problem? but could it be a cache issue?
The initial page load for me was very long.
Thought I'd post again as this is driving me crazy. using the Media Library addon... and all was working fine before, I think. Now I can't play mp4s on firefox. Chrome, Safari, heck, even IE plays mp4s. But no go in Firefox. Tried hacking the script so it plays mp4s via quicktime only to see that Chrome doesn't handle quicktime very well.
So I'm stumped. I swear it was working at one time. Only thing that changed is my site got migrated to a new server by the host. Is there some sort of setting that might be different? maybe a MIME setting firefox needs? At this point all I can do is load the videos from vimeo (or render them all as flv files, but there goes my iphone!)
you can see the test page athttp://theriverchurch.us/mediatest...
any insights on how to handle this is appreciated. I can't even view the mp4s through the file manager via firefox. Is this a my settings thing, a C5 thing, server? browser? codec? I'm befuddled!
So I'm stumped. I swear it was working at one time. Only thing that changed is my site got migrated to a new server by the host. Is there some sort of setting that might be different? maybe a MIME setting firefox needs? At this point all I can do is load the videos from vimeo (or render them all as flv files, but there goes my iphone!)
you can see the test page athttp://theriverchurch.us/mediatest...
any insights on how to handle this is appreciated. I can't even view the mp4s through the file manager via firefox. Is this a my settings thing, a C5 thing, server? browser? codec? I'm befuddled!
try adding
to you .htaccess
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
to you .htaccess
Okay, so I think I figured it out... either I'm a genius (hardly!) or you all are gonna lol at my stupidity - either way I'm just glad I can start posting media again.
Using YSLOW on Firefox, I kept getting an "F" for not compressing my components with gzip. So I went to my hosting cpanel and enabled compression for all file types. Evidently that was causing the problem with my mp4s in Firefox. When I went to the cpanel and enabled compression only on text/css/xml/javascript elements all is working again. Was throwing me off that every browser but Firefox played the videos, but oh well... if it works!
Of course, if anyone has any insights into optimizing compression I'd appreciate it!
Using YSLOW on Firefox, I kept getting an "F" for not compressing my components with gzip. So I went to my hosting cpanel and enabled compression for all file types. Evidently that was causing the problem with my mp4s in Firefox. When I went to the cpanel and enabled compression only on text/css/xml/javascript elements all is working again. Was throwing me off that every browser but Firefox played the videos, but oh well... if it works!
Of course, if anyone has any insights into optimizing compression I'd appreciate it!
http://beta.theriverchurch.us/current-ly/media/...
work in my firefox 3.6.15 (and chrome)
There was a windows push last night that caused a new update of adobe flash on my machine. But your videos look and play fine.