| [Snow] Fox News Video issues with Mac My problem spontaneously started one week ago. I spend many hours a day on the Internet doing among other things research and review of both current event news and all types research and fact gathering in other areas from many sites.
One of my many sources is Fox News. However, as mentioned starting about one week ago and only with Fox News their videos all have video pause or delays throughout the entire video but the audio remains steady.
The problem is only with Fox videos.
Also, the problem is on Chrome, FireFox and Safari--same issue all browsers. All are up to date and no major add-ons or changes have been made to them. ISP Internet connection is fast and clean.
The extra twist is that on my PC the Fox News videos work fine on all browsers.
So what's the deal?
ADDENDUM: Please no Fox politico-socio cracks. Lets just stick to the technical issue! Thanks!  |
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 BellBoySteven Paul Jobs 1955-2011Premium
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Los Angeles, CA | said by Insight:ADDENDUM: Please no Fox politico-socio cracks. Lets just stick to the technical issue! Thanks!
Oh and I was going to help too...but I was going to make a 'crack', so...
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 Black_MageMy backup spell is WarpPremium
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I'm playing a video on Fox News right now. No problems. |
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said by Insight: My problem spontaneously started one week ago. I spend many hours a day on the Internet doing among other things research and review of both current event news and all types research and fact gathering in other areas from many sites.
One of my many sources is Fox News. However, as mentioned starting about one week ago and only with Fox News their videos all have video pause or delays throughout the entire video but the audio remains steady.
The problem is only with Fox videos.
Also, the problem is on Chrome, FireFox and Safari--same issue all browsers. All are up to date and no major add-ons or changes have been made to them. ISP Internet connection is fast and clean.
The extra twist is that on my PC the Fox News videos work fine on all browsers.
So what's the deal?
ADDENDUM: Please no Fox politico-socio cracks. Lets just stick to the technical issue! Thanks!
Come on, 111 views and not one single constructive serious answer or speculation for a serious question?
Don't make me sink to going to the MS forum*--even though Fox flash videos plays fine on Windows. 
Or worse, the "General Questions" forums where everyone thinks they know everything about everything--a theory I don't share. 
ADDENDUM: I contacted the Fox web site and advised them of my issue and got the predicable no response. |
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Clearly there is some issue with the mac.
Since FOX uses flash player, I'd look at your flash settings on your mac, and see what if anything you can do there. Doesn't matter what the container is (Chrome, FireFox and Safari) it's all on adobe flash.
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| All though I use my Mac far more than my PC I understand Windows OS much better, as I only started using the Mac a year and a half or so back and have just learned by doing.
So where would I find those flash settings you are talking about?
Also, why do you say it's obviously the Mac since Fox uses Flash Player. I would think, just speculating or brainstorming, not trying to argue, that the problem is the Fox web site flash player videos with OS X as my Mac plays ALL other flash videos from all other sites all of the time without any problem. Just sayin!
And where are those "Mac flash setting you are referencing? Thanks. |
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
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kudos:6 | System Preferences > Flash Player
But there really aren't any settings there that would cause an issue as your describe. Sorry if it's been mentioned before, but have you tried upgrading to the latest flash player and Chrome?
FYI: Chrome uses it's own, built-in version of Flash that is separate from the version installed in the OS. So it's possible something flash-based may work in Chrome and not in Firefox/Safari and vice versa.
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said by Insight:Also, why do you say it's obviously the Mac since Fox uses Flash Player. FOX's video FAQ says they use flash for live streaming. Your mac isn't handling that well, vs any of the other possible live streaming methods that you say are working, so I'd suspect the handling of flash video.
System Preferences (as Thinkdiff pointed out) are where all your settings for everything is, on the mac.
I've never subjected myself to Fox, streaming or otherwise, but I do stream other flash content on a number of Macs without issue. So it's not a general flash+mac issue. You have eliminated the FOX flash + your internet connection, since you say you can stream FOX to other PCs in your home. I assume you've checked the mac doesn't have some odd networking issue, so that leaves... flash, on that mac.
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Yes, I have the latest browsers of all types on both the Mac and PC. The problem is everywhere.
A side note that I just thought about that may be key: On the Fox videos that are preceded by a commercial the video commercial, which I assume uses flash, plays, fine. It is only on the OS X that the subsequent fox news video has the problem. |
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San Jose, CA | can you post a link to something that doesn't play well?
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| John, EVERY SINGLE FOX NEWS VIDEO at www.foxnews.com all the time every time! Take your pick. Click on ANY of the linked or posted videos. You can't make a "wrong" choice. BUT...they all play fine on the PC. |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
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kudos:6 | Can you post the specs of your Mac? Processor? RAM? GPU?
Yes, I know you said you can play other videos fine, but I'm just curious.
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said by Insight:John, EVERY SINGLE FOX NEWS VIDEO at www.foxnews.com all the time every time! Take your pick. Click on ANY of the linked or posted videos. You can't make a "wrong" choice. BUT...they all play fine on the PC.
Ok... I CAREFULLY selected from among the choices the story on turkey / Syria - it streamed fine to my ancient 2006 mac mini running lion, in firefox. I think we can rule out something with Macs in general and FOX News.
What mac (hardware, osx version) are you using? What else is going on on that mac? What's Activity Monitor telling you about free memory, CPU usage? Did you change something significant last week? New software? Update?
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said by Thinkdiff:Can you post the specs of your Mac? Processor? RAM? GPU?
Yes, I know you said you can play other videos fine, but I'm just curious.
CPU: 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 6 GB
Video: ATI RADEON 5770 with 1 GB video memory.
Latest browsers AND flashplayer. Pretty strange too that the lead in commercials play flawlessly but the news videos have a problem. |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
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kudos:6 | Is this a Hackintosh? What model of Mac came with 3GHz Core 2 Duo and the 5770?
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| said by Thinkdiff:Is this a Hackintosh? What model of Mac came with 3GHz Core 2 Duo and the 5770?
"Hackintosh?" What "model of Mac." Sorry, I honestly have no idea what you are asking or referring to.
It seems clear that there is no answer to be found at this time.
I laid out the all the hardware specs and version of OS X, answered all the questions asked by everyone trying to help about all the versions of flash, browsers, and described the exact circumstances of this spontaneous relatively new development.
The only thing that possibly changed was the latest version of flash came out. The problem started ABOUT that time but I simply do not remember if the problem started before the flash update or after--Only that they were in close in time--BUT, all other sites using Flash work fine and this is the same machine I have for a long time--about a year and a half.
I have people telling me they don't have my problem--like that helps anything while I have others telling me they too are experiencing the same thing--that's not much help either.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate your time. I suspect the problem will eventually spontaneously clear up. Maybe when I upgrade to Mountain Lion--if I ever get around to it.
The best mystery for me is why does the lead in commercial play fine preceding the video. That's flash is it not and it is coming from the or through the Fox News site as the news video immediately is segued in. |
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 genxrPremium
join:2004-08-11
Arlington, TX | TD was just wanting to determine what mac we're dealing with (iMac, Macbook, etc.)
My only suggestion would be to reset safari and clean out/delete the site information in the "Local Storage Settings" part of the Flash settings. |
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| said by genxr:My only suggestion would be to reset safari and clean out/delete the site information in the "Local Storage Settings" part of the Flash settings.
Did it. No effect. Thanks. |
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DodgePremium
join:2002-11-27 | reply to Insight
Windows version of flash has an option to enable hardware acceleration of video which in rare instances may cause issues, does mac version have anything similar? If it does I'd try it both ways, with and without the acceleration to see if it improves. |
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1 edit | Been there done that on the iMac--no effect. So far it looks like it is permanent or will clear up spontaneously, (eventually.) When I get around to upgrading to ML maybe that will change.
Thanks for the suggestion.
ADDENDUM: I've noticed that contrary to previous statements not all lead in commercials on Fox Videos plays correctly. Some do and some have the same problem as the Fox Video that follows.
The key thing is Flash Player works on ALL other sites perfectly. However, I also have noticed by right clicking on a Fox Video player that besides making reference to the Flash Player is mentions a Fox Video Player. Unclear what the relevancy of that is! |
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