Dave,
Not sure if this is the problem to which you are referring, but...
Lately, when I've clicked on my link to the movie sample of the day for Granny Island, the embedded Windows Media Player begins playing the movie, then the picture freezes after a couple of seconds. The audio, however, continues. Today, after reading your post here, I went to my site to check the link again (the location of the link to which I refer is
here )
and the player had "closed" in it's status bar.
I surf with SlimBrowser, which runs on the IE engine, and generally seems to be perceived as IE by the sites/pages I'm viewing.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with browser compatibility, or if there's a problem with the video stream itself, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention here.