Safari can't see World Cup Yahoo videos

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Safari can't see World Cup Yahoo videos

I have Safari 1.3.1 operating in MacOS 10.3.9, and the latest Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and Real Player for the Mac. However, almost every time I try to watch 2006 World Cup videos from Yahoo's website (fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en), I get an error message (Cannot find file. Verify the filename and path and try again). I obviously cannot verify anything, as it's Yahoo who names the video files (not me). Can anyone help me to view these videos? Is there a trick with Safari's settings? Thanks.

eMac, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jun 16, 2006 9:47 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 16, 2006 10:17 AM in response to scrosati

Many videos on Yahoo! are only viewable using Windows and Internet Explorer. I'm afraid this may be the case with the World Cup page. I can't view them either.

Jim

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Answer 2

Jun 17, 2006 9:09 AM in response to scrosati

Hi,

I have the same problem.
In their support they say that you need real player 7 or 8. I don't have that. I also have the latest version of every thing OS, quickTime, Real Player and WMP.
Any one had luck viewing those videos?

www.fifaworldcup.com is the link.

Thanks

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Answer 3

Jun 18, 2006 12:12 AM in response to scrosati

Same problem here as well. Safari version 2.0.3, everything updated.

Jtsastre

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Answer 4

Jun 18, 2006 5:46 AM in response to scrosati

Safari won't play (at least not yet) Yahoo video. I'd stay away from IE given Microsoft no longer supports it.

Video will play on Firefox. If not on your system you can download a copy (v 1.5) here.

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Answer 5

Jun 18, 2006 7:31 AM in response to scrosati

I got it to work by turning of flip4mac off from the sys pref panel

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Answer 6

Jun 24, 2006 2:12 AM in response to Waleed(y)

flip4mac? Can you please explain?

yeah i got the same problem as everyone else. I couldn't view the match highlights. What ***** also is that ESPN 360 which broadcasts the World Cup live for US viewers is only available for PC users.

www.espn360.com

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Answer 7

Jun 24, 2006 4:56 AM in response to Vinyl4bpm

flip4mac is an application / plug in which runs Windows media format. I had that installed. I went to the sys pref panel and switched the plug in off. Once I did that everything worked fine.
If you don't have flip4mac installed, try to disable your windows media plug in .. this - I think- will force your browser to use Quicktime to run the movies ..
One more thing .. it takes a long time for the movies to start running .. like 30 sec or more .. so what ever change you make .. be patient when you test it ..

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Answer 8

Jul 2, 2006 2:21 PM in response to Waleed(y)

I don't even have a windows media plug in. I deleted it.

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