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dwsmith

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Registered: 2015-04-07

Posts: 18

playing flash videos on CNN

I am using google-chrome-stable version 41.0.2272.118 (64-bit) and have pepper flash installed. I can play YouTube and CNBC videos without a problem. However, I cannot play any videos on CNN. I also updated everything as well with sudo pacman -Suu and sudo pacman -Syu so nothing should be out of date. I am using the gnome-desktop if that matters. I have set the plugin to work as well in chrome://plugins as well.

Unfortunately, I am not sure what other information would be needed to trouble shoot this issue so ask away.

Last edited by dwsmith (2015-04-14 16:17:06)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

I can play videos on CNN w/o flash. I'm using firefox and html5 for YT.

dwsmith

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Registered: 2015-04-07

Posts: 18

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

I can play videos on CNN w/o flash. I'm using firefox and html5 for YT.

I have html5 installed as well but the videos still don't play.

teateawhy

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From: GER

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: playing flash videos on CNN

That site works for me in firefox without flash.
Maybe you need the codec packages:
gst-plugins-good 1.4.5-1
gst-libav 1.4.5-1
I'm not sure if they are used on that particular site though.
EDIT: The first video i found on that site uses mp4, so you need at least gst-plugins-good to watch that.

Last edited by teateawhy (2015-04-14 20:00:52)

dwsmith

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Registered: 2015-04-07

Posts: 18

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

That site works for me in firefox without flash.
Maybe you need the codec packages:
gst-plugins-good 1.4.5-1
gst-libav 1.4.5-1
I'm not sure if they are used on that particular site though.
EDIT: The first video i found on that site uses mp4, so you need at least gst-plugins-good to watch that.

Installed plugins and rebooted but still nothing.

bnb2235

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Registered: 2011-02-13

Posts: 119

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

Are you running adblock? Disable it, and refresh the page. For me, the videos also wont play if adblock is enabled. Disable adblock and all is well for me.

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,371

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

Are you running adblock? Disable it, and refresh the page. For me, the videos also wont play if adblock is enabled. Disable adblock and all is well for me.

You can set adblock to "Don't run on pages on this domain" once you are on the cnn videos page, and then click exclude - that way adblock will run without change on other sites but will not be active on the edition.cnn.com/* domain - and it will then play cnn video. That is better than simply disabling adblock completely.

By the way chrome stable has just been updated to version 42.0.2311.90-1 this evening.

Last edited by mcloaked (2015-04-14 20:56:03)

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bnb2235

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Registered: 2011-02-13

Posts: 119

Re: playing flash videos on CNN

I just uncheck the "enabled on this site" and it automatically adds cnn.com to the whitelist. Adblock is still enabled on other sites.

I am running adblock plus.