On 03/09/11 20:30, Stan Goodman wrote:
This website is my source for foreign news, and I use both the US and International editions. There are problems with both, but they are different.
The International edition is still using the video display format that has been standard for a few years. Example:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/02/damon-libya- tripoli-security.cnn?&hpt=hp_c2
although there is nothing specific about this one. It displays well, and the only trouble with it is that it needs a larger buffer than it has, because it is interrupted every few seconds while it catches up. This is not a new problem, and has been annoying for a long time. I am still able to use this site. Is there a way for me to enlarge the video buffer? How?
The US edition has two video display modes, a) the same as that described above (with the same problem), and b) a newer and niftier, apparently still experimental mode, which occupies more of the main Firefox window, does not have the buffer problem, and until a day or two ago was a pleasure to use.
Now, however, no clips function in either mode on the US edition. Clicking on any link to a clip causes FF to put up a large error-message frame announcing that "The connection was reset.....", and the tab to say "Problem loading page". Pressing the Back key returns me to the previous (non-video) page. Presumably not every viewer of the site encounters this problem, so I would like to find a way to diagnose what is happening, and hopefully to work around it. Here is an example of a problematic clip, but again, any other on the site would do as well (or as poorly):
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/topvideos/2011/09/02/nr-suspect- urinates-in-court-trash.cnn?hpt=hp_t2
Firefox identifies itself thus: 5.0 Firefox for openSUSE openSUSE 11.4
My response may be of no satisfaction to you but I can view the above videos you mention without any problems. The first thing which comes to my mind is: when was the last time you did an upgrade/update to your system? For example, flash was upgraded a day or so ago. Also, I am using Firefox #9 (Nightly) [although I think that the official FF version now available for oS 11.4 is #6] on a 32-bit os 11.4 KDE 4.7 system with 1.5GB of RAM and have never 'fiddled' with any buffering settings (didn't even know that such a thing exists - does it?) BC -- Bob Hope's wife: "Where would like to be buried when you die?" Bob Hope : "Why don't you surprise me!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org