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Lars-Erik Østerud - 26 Jun 2008 01:59 GMT

I can't get Flash videos/applets to work all places.
Like on YouTube the videos on the help page works.
But all other say I need a newer version of Flash, but reinstalling
does not help.
Have tried all other hints on the net (registry permissions etc).
For Firefox, Opera and Safari the behaviour is the same all places.
Some Flash applets work, others not.

But, on my one computer this happens in IE8 as well, on the other IE8
works. All of this started after the lastes automatic Flash update.

Have tried uninstalling, cleaning etc, no help.
And the player DOES work, but only on some pages :-(
Adobes own test page does not work :-(

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM - 26 Jun 2008 02:27 GMT

>I can't get Flash videos/applets to work all places.
> Like on YouTube the videos on the help page works.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> And the player DOES work, but only on some pages :-(
> Adobes own test page does not work :-(

Try uninstalling / reinstalling Flash Player. Use the uninstaller at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157
Flash player download:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
If there are still problems see
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

Error message when you try to open an ActiveX control-based MIME handler in
Windows Internet Explorer 7: "Invalid character"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934366

Download SubInACL from Microsoft to fix permission issues that prevent the
Flash Player Installation.
See
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

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Lars-Erik Østerud - 26 Jun 2008 02:37 GMT

> Try uninstalling / reinstalling Flash Player. Use the uninstaller at
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157
> Flash player download:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
> If there are still problems see
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

Tried them all :-( That's why I'm asking.
I've even cleaned the registry myself.
The Flash player must be installed since some applets work.
And SWF files can be draggen to the browser and played.
Still some sites says that I need to install a newer version.

> Download SubInACL from Microsoft to fix permission issues that prevent the
> Flash Player Installation.
> See
> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

Tried that one too :-(

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Donald Anadell - 26 Jun 2008 16:02 GMT

>> Try uninstalling / reinstalling Flash Player. Use the uninstaller at
>> http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157
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>
> Tried them all :-( That's why I'm asking.

If you've tried all of Frank's suggestions to not avail, and all the
suggestions here:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=56115&src=top5&lev=
Including the "Windows Vista users" instructions, to no avail.

Then you might try opening a Web Case with Adobe about your issues with the
Flash Player. I believe they offer free Flash Player installation support
through the means of a "Web Case" available through the Adobe Support
Portal.

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/
http://www.adobe.com/support/

Good luck,

Donald Anadell

> I've even cleaned the registry myself.
> The Flash player must be installed since some applets work.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Tried that one too :-(

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Lars-Erik Østerud - 26 Jun 2008 18:10 GMT

> If you've tried all of Frank's suggestions to not avail, and all the
> suggestions here:
> http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=56115&src=top5&lev=
> Including the "Windows Vista users" instructions, to no avail.

The strange thing is that the video on that help page WORKS.
But not the videoes in the Youtube archive (or the Adobe test page).

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Lars-Erik Østerud - 28 Jun 2008 20:02 GMT

Noticed something very strange.

While the YouTube videoes doesn not work (only the "you either have
JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player")

IF I cut out the code to embed the video in my page (like "<object
width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwgCmkA9wcU&hl=en"></param><embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwgCmkA9wcU&hl=en"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"
height="344"></embed></object>")

THEN save that as a HTML-page

THEN open that

THEN IT WORKS !!!

So it is not Flash not working, it's something with the page code
that makes it think you don't have Flash (even if you really do).

Otherwise the emmedded link shouldn't have worked either, right?

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