Can't play Yahoo news videos

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Can't play Yahoo news videos

I can't seem to play any of the Yahoo news video clips. I click on a link, a new window opens which plays the commercial spot okay but then a QT error message pops up saying "URL is not valid". Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Intel core duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 24, 2007 7:13 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 24, 2007 7:32 AM in response to GJ545i

The player uses Flash video in the case of the ABC News, and QuickTime for the CNN Sports. There's a slight glitch when playing QuickTime in that you have to pause and play the video for it to start updating correctly. I can't easily tell what codec they're using, the video is save disabled, but I suspect you have a QuickTime that is recent enough to play the video.

For the ABC News clips, QuickTime shouldn't be involved at all. Make sure you haven't set QuickTime to play SWF content in your browser, because whether it's Sorenson Spark or On2 VP6 video, QuickTime won't cope with playing Flash movies that contain those.

Having said that, if the video is really FLV you might be able to play it using QuickTime by installing the Perian component ( http://perian.org/). But I think that it would be much safer to just let Flash play Flash content.

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Feb 24, 2007 7:43 AM in response to Colin Holgate

Thanks. I am using the latest version of QT on Firefox and have the latest version of the Flash player installed (with the Flash media option toggled off in the QT preferences) and also have the lastes Flip4Mac installed for WMV. Here's one of the videos that I can't play as an example. Can anyone else with a Mac play these?

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/free?cn=&mid=1948869','playerWindow','width=793,height=608,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,s tatus=no,menubar=no'

Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Intel core duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Intel core duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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