Video Will Not Play In Pale Moon. Topic is solved

[snertev]

badnick, the video in your link posted immediately above plays in Firefox but not in Pale Moon. Unfortunatley, getting nowhere with this problem in Pale Moon.

Running out of ideas as I`ve tried to sort it out myself.

I'm on Windows 10 Windows Fall Creators Update and that video plays just fine.

There should be a problem in your specific PM setup or combination of hardware/codecs and that setup.

[getarealhaircut]

I am running W10 Home and have the same issue

[troypulk]

I'm on Linux and have the same issue as the OP, no video's on MSN and Yahoo, Flash on and off.

[Morten79]

Videos starts but after a very long delay (over 10-15 seconds)

I tried too clear all cookies from msn.com domain and the videos now starts instantly both with and without uBlock enabled.

[troypulk]

I tried too clear all cookies from msn.com domain and the videos now starts instantly both with and without uBlock enabled.

This didn't work for me.

[Morten79]

I think the video playback issue on msn.com is caused by uBlock Origin which I use myself. In uBlock allow 3rd-party scripts like here:

This will allow 3rd-party scripts, but only on msn.com domain.
Remember too click the little padlock too make this dynamic rule permanent. Hopefully that will work better than clearing the cookies. With this little setting I was able too play the videos with only a very small delay.

[pmBill]

I also get the "We're sorry, but your browser does not support this video. Please install Adobe Flash version 10 or later." message. I have Adobe Flash 27...

(here: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/jenny-mccarthy-details-alleged-casting-couch-experience-with-steven-seagal-%E2%80%98it-just-so-grossed-me-out%E2%80%99/ar-BBEMGfF?li=BBoPJKU )

Windows 10 Pro and PM 27.6.0 (x86).

Also, animated GIFs (or MP4 videos?) are not playing in Facebook or on Giphy: (or elsewhere, I think)

https://media2.giphy.com/media/3o85xGocUH8RYoDKKs/giphy.gif

This has occurred with the latest update.

(both linked pages work in ALL of the current "top" 5 major browsers)

[badnick]

I(both linked pages work in ALL of the current "top" 5 major browsers)

Both (video and GIF) work for me
Win 10/64
PM 27.6.0/64

[illiad]

tried
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment ... vi-BBEQHUp

I dunno about the latency - I am not sure whether the screen that come up is *meant* to play, but when I click the top Item in the playlist, it starts in a few secs... I t may have been loading in back ground??

In london, england on Win7 SP1, VM 150MBPS, on core I7 3GHz PC!

I have the 'Toggle animated GIFS' addon, to stop the mania, but Giphy may see this.. - Right click, you will find a 'play' item to move the gif! it!

I find flash plays on 'normal' websites... youtube and others use tons of JS, etc that does not help it 'get through'...

the normal flash downloader quite often crashes, so try this help, that includes a PROPER link to get flash (no guarantees, its quite old! )

[rogpmu]

Many thanks to those who have posted. It`s heartening to know I`m not the only one with this problem as I had began to think I had caused theproblem by some unkown reason.

@ Morten 79 I disabled uBlock Origin all to no avail - videos would still not play.

I clicked on "I am an advanced user" and changed a few settings -including Allow 3rd-party scripts but still videos did not work so changed them back to where they were.

Any guidance on what to tick/change in uBlockOrigin would be very much appreciated.

[Pallid Planetoid]

The URL is https://www.msn.com/en-gb/ and none of the videos to be found will play. Going elsewhere is the same....

Video plays for me immediately:

without delay - just as soon as I click on the play (arrow) button:

I use uBo, but did not need to make any changes, these are the 3rd-party filters I use in uBo:

If that helps.

[badnick]

What I noticed here is that videos seems to don't start untill the buffer is complete (for the entire video).

[coffeebreak]

You might try turning autoplay on, if it isn't already.
These MSN vids play for me, but I found it necessary to enable that first.

In about:config set

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media.autoplay.enabled = true
media.autoplay.allowscripted = true

[pmBill]

I restarted in Safe Mode with no addons and it didn't make a difference.

Operating system:
Name: Windows 10 (build 15063), 64-bit edition
Version: 10.0
Platform: 64-bit system
CPU features: sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 sse4.1 sse4.2 avx avx2 aes pclmulqdq rdrnd bmi2 bmi2 adx
RAM: 8 GB

Everything worked fine in the previous version.

PM 27.6.0 (32-bit)

I use 32-bit so I can use addons that don't work in 64-bit. (I think)

[troypulk]

You might try turning autoplay on, if it isn't already.
These MSN vids play for me, but I found it necessary to enable that first.

In about:config set

Code: Select all

media.autoplay.enabled = true
media.autoplay.allowscripted = true

This worked for me, I just need to disable Adblock Latitude.

[pmBill]

You might try turning autoplay on, if it isn't already.
These MSN vids play for me, but I found it necessary to enable that first.

In about:config set

Code: Select all

media.autoplay.enabled = true
media.autoplay.allowscripted = true

This worked for me, I just need to disable Adblock Latitude.

Mine were already set to TRUE by DEFAULT.

Still doesn't work.

[pmBill]

Also, the drop-down notifications in Facebook don't work anymore.
It just shows an animated "working" image and never fills the drop-down.

[Pallid Planetoid]

Also, the drop-down notifications in Facebook don't work anymore.
It just shows an animated "working" image and never fills the drop-down.

pmfbndd.jpg

You mean like this:

Apparently I do not have any problem if you are talking about the FB list drop-down illustrated in this screen-shot (using Pale Moon 27.6.0 [32-bit] in Windows 7)

It looks like perhaps the blocking of scripts is causing your problem. Make sure you do not have an add-on that might be interfering.

[Pallid Planetoid]

You might try turning autoplay on, if it isn't already.
These MSN vids play for me, but I found it necessary to enable that first.
In about:config set

Code: Select all

media.autoplay.enabled = true
media.autoplay.allowscripted = true

This worked for me, I just need to disable Adblock Latitude.

Mine were already set to TRUE by DEFAULT.
Still doesn't work.

I take it you've tested MSN videos using safe mode (based on past post).... Have you tried clearing cache and/or cookies for MSN? (I've retained the full conversation string to provide context but compressed it to save space).

[illiad]

looks like I forgot the link to 'full download' of flash' (the standard one just downloads a 'loader' that often fails!! ) Full downloader and help here..

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb ... ars_header

It looks like it may be poor bandwidth / slow pc with low memory?? Have you got at least 2Gb??
do you have a friend with a laptop running win7 sp1 etc to come to your home and see if it works on your ISP???