Safari complaining when trying to view WWDC videos

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Safari complaining when trying to view WWDC videos

Despite running Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Safari 6.0.5, whenever I attempt to play a video from Apple's Developer WWDC site, I receive the following error:

System Requirements

To watch the streaming version of this video, use the latest version of Safari on a Mac running OS X Lion or later. Alternatively, you can watch this video in the WWDC app or download the video when available.

I instead force to download the video.

Any suggestions?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 27" Intel Core I5 - 4GB ram

Posted on Oct 9, 2013 9:13 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Oct 9, 2013 12:51 PM in response to zinc1oxide1

From the Safari menu bar, select

Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Security

and check the box marked Allow other plug-ins.

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Answer 2

andyBall_uk

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Oct 9, 2013 1:11 PM in response to zinc1oxide1

It's the same here with Safari or Firefox. Ctrl-clicking the play icon & opening in a new tab/window gives a similar result initially... but starts playing the video within a few seconds.

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Answer 3

zinc1oxide1 Author

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Oct 9, 2013 1:18 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, this isn't the resolution. I did check my Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Security and the Allow other plug-ins was already checked.

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Answer 4

zinc1oxide1 Author

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Oct 9, 2013 1:35 PM in response to andyBall_uk

Thanks.

Your suggestion did result exactly how you described. Although not perfect, it did allow an easy workaround so I don't have to download everytime. It would be nice to understand what Safari is checking to initially echo that nonsensical error.

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