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From: Pete Finn on 2 Jul 2010 02:54
About two weeks ago the in-page vids on my BBC news site
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/> stopped functioning.
It only seems to affect the BBC,- the Guardian and others work OK.
It affects all my browsers, Firefox, Safari, iCab.
Is there something special about the way the BBC encodes these video
clips?
Any suggestions?

Peter
Mac G5 PPC 10.5.8


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From: Peter Ceresole on 2 Jul 2010 03:09
Pete Finn <petefinn(a)SP|KEntlworld.com> wrote:

> Is there something special about the way the BBC encodes these video
> clips?
> Any suggestions?

Not as far as I know. They have continued to work here, on Firefox 3.6
in OS 10.5.8 on a MBP, and on an iG5 running 10.4.11.
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From: D.M. Procida on 2 Jul 2010 03:19
Pete Finn <petefinn(a)SP|KEntlworld.com> wrote:

> About two weeks ago the in-page vids on my BBC news site
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/> stopped functioning.
> It only seems to affect the BBC,- the Guardian and others work OK.
> It affects all my browsers, Firefox, Safari, iCab.
> Is there something special about the way the BBC encodes these video
> clips?
> Any suggestions?

I don't think there is anything special about the BBC, but I'd guess
that something has gone wrong with your Flash installation. Why it
should only affect the BBC I have no idea.

The other possibility is that your ISP's caching servers are fouling up
BBC video content.

Do you get any error messages or additional information?

Daniele
From: Jim on 2 Jul 2010 03:26
On 2010-07-02, Pete Finn <petefinn(a)SP|KEntlworld.com> wrote:
> About two weeks ago the in-page vids on my BBC news site
><http://news.bbc.co.uk/> stopped functioning.
> It only seems to affect the BBC,- the Guardian and others work OK.
> It affects all my browsers, Firefox, Safari, iCab.
> Is there something special about the way the BBC encodes these video
> clips?
> Any suggestions?

So far as I'm aware they're just Flash, so it may be worth downloading the
latest Flash and see if that cures it.

Ive just tried the video here:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/front_page/newsid_10480000/
newsid_10483900/10483958.stm>

and it seemed to play fine - Safari 5, XP.

Jim
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From: Bob Wardrope on 2 Jul 2010 15:55
Pete Finn wrote:
> About two weeks ago the in-page vids on my BBC news site
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/> stopped functioning.
> It only seems to affect the BBC,- the Guardian and others work OK.
> It affects all my browsers, Firefox, Safari, iCab.
> Is there something special about the way the BBC encodes these video
> clips?
> Any suggestions?
>
Could the topic discussed here -

<https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ejnb44kuumgct7v4f1ia46cer3&topic=2892.0>

be the cause?

Bob W
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