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From: Nobody on 30 Nov 2009 19:42
>Nobody wrote:
>>> Nobody wrote:
>>>>> Peter P. may have an answer or suggestion about this: I've spent a few
>>>>> hours testing Firefox 3.5.5 against SeaMonkey 2.0 and I'm puzzled
>>>>> about embedded video playback quality loss.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Nightline/tabid/368/articleID/131517/cat/64/Default.aspx#video
>>>>>
>>>>> The above is one of many clips I've tried that obviously have much
>>>>> poorer quality playback using FF, even though I can see that my
>>>>> setting in Adobe Flasplayer 10 is set at "high".
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running Win XP Home SP3 for information's sake.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I go and look at cache in SM 2.0 after viewing the newsclip in
>>>>> better quality, I see the file size is ~4500kb.
>>>>>
>>>>> In FF, it's only ~1800kb.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something I've not got set correctly in FF?
>>>>>
>>>>> Disabling/enabling AdBlock doesn't make any difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now if AdBlock Plus 1.1.1 worked with SM 2.0 I might not be looking at
>>>>> FF!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Uh-oh! A variety of Murphy's Law just set in... you can call off the
>>>> hounds.
>>>>
>>>> I've found the culprit: never realised there are TWO places to set
>>>> quality in Flash, one by right-clicking in the video, the other the
>>>> word "quality" at the bottom right of the Flash screen.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, FF was picking up a conflicted "poor" in one --
>>>> "high" in the other -- though SM was showing both as "high".
>>>>
>>>> Go figure.
>>> you can also get more display info from here:
>>> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html
>>> and there is also a global setting manager that will
>>> give you access to more [hidden] setting
>>
>> Thanks, Peter.
>>
>> I thought I had it figured out, but AdBlock Plus 1.1.1 somehow
>> overrides FlashPlayer's settings. It (AdBlock) doesn't allow the
>> "quality" setting to appear to the bottom right of the video, and
>> defaults the playback to "medium".
>>
>> Most strange. I guess I'll have to disable ABP whenever visiting that
>> site with FF for video, and also have to put up with the pre-clip paid
>> advertising.
>
>well, you have two choices:
>
>either seek advice from the adblock people:
>https://adblockplus.org/forum/
>
>or invest in a good hosts file:
>http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm or
>http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
>
>my money is on the hosts file. I've never had a
>problem with it.

Interestingly, I've already gone the "hosts" file route without
success.

Ah, I'm beginning to wonder whether the site (TV3 in NZ) can "fish"
for broadband/high-speed download requests that are blocking ads, and
the site is saying, yeah we'll forego the ads -- but you're not gonna
get 330k video.

Oh well.

Again, thanks for the help.
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