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. -- "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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