On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 19:04, Richard Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Hi
>
> > BBC News articles these days often included embedded video,
> > playable via Flash[0]. When I try to play any of them, all I get is
> > a
> > continuously-rotating spinner.
> >
> > This is the same regardless of Web browser, and I am definitely
> > using the Adobe Flash plug-in (and not an alternative like Gnash).
> > Does anyone know how to get it working?
>
> Yes.  We've just about had a stand up row over this here in England.
> I've had problems with it as well but I eventually realised that this
> was to do with 64-bit web browsers in Debian Etch/Ubuntu/OpenSuSE.
>
> Later releases have fixed this problem.

Except in my case I'm using a 32-bit system.

I should also add that Flash works great for everything else. I get the same 
results on both Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 8.04.


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