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bbc videos don't work

Hi

If I go to the bbc website and click on a video from say the news section I just get the twirly circle thing going round and round and that's it - no video....yet I can get youtube etc...any idea whats going on here?

Cheers

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  • Try clearing your cache and cookies. I sometimes get a terrible problem with them thinking im outside the UK when i have used a proxy to view something and I have to clear them out to restart watching..

    Mind you I get told by random things im not where I am - especially twitter who seems to bounce me round the whole of the south sometimes. Which is fun.

    Even speedtest likes to think im somewhere else.
    "If you no longer go for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver" - Ayrton Senna
  • netdumdum
    netdumdum Posts: 392 Forumite
    Have you tried switching your router/modem on and off??
    You can't con an honest man!
  • Try clearing your cache and cookies. I sometimes get a terrible problem with them thinking im outside the UK when i have used a proxy to view something and I have to clear them out to restart watching..

    Mind you I get told by random things im not where I am - especially twitter who seems to bounce me round the whole of the south sometimes. Which is fun.

    Even speedtest likes to think im somewhere else.

    cheers...I do a clean every so often and its still like it
  • netdumdum wrote: »
    Have you tried switching your router/modem on and off??

    I'll try that!

    It's our IT departments stock answer..turn it off and back on again...funny thing is, it seems to always work :D
  • netdumdum
    netdumdum Posts: 392 Forumite
    Good luck, I have got the same IT department, they even said that when I phoned them to say my PC wouldnt switch on, they asked me to try switching on and off again, I said I would love to me able to!!!
    You can't con an honest man!
  • Hi

    If I go to the bbc website and click on a video from say the news section I just get the twirly circle thing going round and round and that's it - no video....yet I can get youtube etc...any idea whats going on here?

    Cheers

    First go to this web address:

    http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

    Here you'll find the flash settings in use on your PC. Select the second tab from the left 'global storage settings' and move the slider to the right until you have 1MB of space allocated. Then make sure the bottom two boxes are ticked (allow third party..... and store common flash...). Then give it a try ;)
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