Trying out JW Player. Does this movie play for everyone?

Simon · 2008-10-06, 07:25 AM

Strange, that didn't work well for me in Safari or Firefox. In both cases the movie did begin to play but was more like a jerky slideshow, and when I paused it to let the progress bar fill up before playing it again, the movie showed in the progress bar that it was playing but the image wasn't moving at all. Same thing in both browsers on the Mac.

To be sure, I downloaded the latest Flash player from Adobe and reinstalled for both browsers and tried again. No difference at all (and I already had the latest version of Flash installed anyway).

Most Flash videos play just fine here, but this one didn't work for me.

Useless · 2008-10-06, 08:43 AM

Worked fine in FF, but I had to update Flash player in IE to get it to play. Before the update, it acted like it was loading, but wouldn't play (in IE). Fine in both now.

Cleo · 2008-10-06, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Worked fine in FF, but I had to update Flash player in IE to get it to play. Before the update, it acted like it was loading, but wouldn't play (in IE). Fine in both now.

It needs Flash version 9 or greater to play because in Flash 9 the ability to play h.264 movies was added. This Flash movie is actually just a mp4 movie being played inside of the Flash player.

I thought the player was suppose to prompt you to download the current version of Flash if the installed version was older then version 9 but it seems that it doesn't.

2008-10-06, 07:25 AM	#1
Simon That which does not kill us, will try, try again. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Conch Republic Posts: 5,150	Strange, that didn't work well for me in Safari or Firefox. In both cases the movie did begin to play but was more like a jerky slideshow, and when I paused it to let the progress bar fill up before playing it again, the movie showed in the progress bar that it was playing but the image wasn't moving at all. Same thing in both browsers on the Mac. To be sure, I downloaded the latest Flash player from Adobe and reinstalled for both browsers and tried again. No difference at all (and I already had the latest version of Flash installed anyway). Most Flash videos play just fine here, but this one didn't work for me. __________________ "If you're happy and you know it, think again." -- Guru Pitka

2008-10-06, 08:43 AM	#2
Useless Certified Nice Person Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dirty Undies, NY Posts: 11,268	Worked fine in FF, but I had to update Flash player in IE to get it to play. Before the update, it acted like it was loading, but wouldn't play (in IE). Fine in both now. __________________ Click here to purchase a bridge I'm selling.