embedded flash won't play, but over at youtube, no problem.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Kaj Haulrich wrote:

> On 2010-05-18 11:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    i'm not sure if this is related to the flash issues discussed
> > earlier, but on a number of sites i browse to, if someone has
> > embedded a youtube video, if i click on "play", the play button
> > clearly dims slightly so that i can see it's being recognized, but
> > the video doesn't play.  on the rare occasion that it *does* play,
> > it's almost impossible to stop after that (again, it's clear the
> > stop button is being pressed, it's just not being processed).
> >
> >    on the other hand, for embedded videos like that, if i *right*
> > click and select "play at youtube", it will take me to the youtube
> > page and play perfectly fine.  so it's apparently something about
> > the embedding.  thoughts?
> >
> > p.s.  when the embedded video is non-responsive, that typically
> > includes the X to make the google ad go away as well.
>
> I had the same problem in Firefox and Opera, but not in Chrome.
> After disabling 'visual effect" (setting it to 'none') the problem
> went away. As an added benefit the whole system became a lot more
> responsive.

  huh ... that seems to have cured it (if you accept evidence
consisting of a data point of precisely one).  is this a known
bug/issue/feature/annoyance?

rday

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