BBC and Flash Player

Cardew

I can no longer play BBC TV programmes and short videos on the BBC home page - PC is running WIN7 and IE11. and it worked until 2 days ago. I phoned a friend who has identical problems.


It tells me I have to run Flash Player (which I have had for years)


Prompted to download Flash Player it eventually informs me it has been successfully downloaded(I have to close IE and Skype) however it doesn't improve matters - still no video.


Any ideas please?

Fightsback

Use another browser such as Chrome (built in flash) or Firefox with the Npapi flash plugin

Cardew

Fightsback wrote: »

Use another browser such as Chrome (built in flash) or Firefox with the Npapi flash plugin

Thanks,


Likewise I could use my IPad; but I want to use the same set up as I have had for years - I particularly don't want Chrome!

JJ_Egan

Its IE11 problem for some reason flash player is not starting .
Same flash player working on Firefox and Chrome .

Nilrem

I'm not sure if it's still the case but from memory Flash used to have two versions, one used for things like IE, and one for things like FF.

If it's working in FF/Chrome but not IE it may be worth trying to update the flash version in IE (go to the Adobe flash install/check page and see what it says).

It completely threw me for a while when I ran into issues with an "outdated" flash player on one of our machines that was stopping MSN from working as I knew that FF had the latest Adobe flash stuff, it was only when I tried IE that it showed up.

Fightsback

Nilrem wrote: »

I'm not sure if it's still the case but from memory Flash used to have two versions, one used for things like IE, and one for things like FF.

If it's working in FF/Chrome but not IE it may be worth trying to update the flash version in IE (go to the Adobe flash install/check page and see what it says).

It completely threw me for a while when I ran into issues with an "outdated" flash player on one of our machines that was stopping MSN from working as I knew that FF had the latest Adobe flash stuff, it was only when I tried IE that it showed up.

There are actually 3 versions of flash - NPAPI (firefox/netscape), Pepper PPAPI (Google) and ActiveX (Microsoft). The sooner that bug ridden security hell hole is depreciated for HTML5 the better.

[Deleted User]

In Internet Explorer 11 go to 'Tools' and make sure that 'ActiveX' Filtering' isn't ticked.

Cardew

North_Of_Utopia wrote: »

In Internet Explorer 11 go to 'Tools' and make sure that 'ActiveX' Filtering' isn't ticked.

Thanks, it was ticked and un-ticking the box solved the problem.