I attached this in a post and it wouldn't play. So, I uploaded it to Youtube and posted it that way, it still wouldn't play. It plays on YouTube, it plays on my computer, why won't it play here?
I'm using the current version of Firefox.
2025-02-13 at 20:02, reposted from Youtube since it works elsewhere.
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John the video plays for me!!!
Me also John.
Working fine here too ..... 
And all the way "down-under" here in Australia.....plays perfectly!
Peter.......Buco Australia
Plays perfectly well
Well darn, when I made the comment about ad blocker being on, found out it won't play here either. Mine were on, turned them off and still no play. When I checked properties of the picture, it says it is a .jpeg on my computer, no video format.
It doesn’t play on my iPad
Plays fine here!
I got 6 seconds worth!
Odd, it's an MP4 file right from my phone. I've uploaded dozens of these in the past, but this is a new phone, I wonder if it's obscure setting Firefox doesn't like. FWIW, it plays for me in Chrome as it turns out.
Doesn’t play on my iPad using Safari or Firefox browser or in Firefox on Win11 PC. However, it does play using Edge browser on Win11 PC.
Must be something about Firefox, it plays in Edge and Chrome. I think it's about time I think of dropping Firefox, too many of these oddities happening lately.
John, Same for me... yours and other videos play in Chrome, but not in Firefox. I started noticing videos here on OGR and YouTube not playing on Firefox about a week or so ago. Hopefully Mozilla will sort it out soon.
Yep, I've had just about enough of the niggling little issues with Firefox lately! 
I have dropped Firefox on my home computer and use the dreaded Edge. With Malwarebytes installed I feel like the security online is about as good as it can get (i.e. still not secure, but a better illusion thereof). One my phone I still use Firefox though. It is unfortunate as I have been a Firefox advocate for many years.
It plays fine for me on:
Doesn't run for me on Firefox.
Works fine on my iPad with Safari!
Interesting. It works for me with Chrome, but when I go to FireFox, all I get is a black screen. And both are up to date.
Chris
P&O
Will not play for me using iPad Safari.
Nothing!
Works for me using Safari, Firefox or Duck Duck Go on my iPad and also works using Firefox on my iMac.
Looks good here. Safari and Firefox.
It doesn't play for me ... using Safari on a MacBook Air.
It plays for me using safari with iPad Air 4 and latest software 18.3.1. It doesn’t work with my old iPad mini 4 with maxed out software update 15.8.3.
Gene
Does not play for me on:
Win11 Hone 23H2, 22631.4890/Firefox 135.0
Wow, talk about a varied mix! Half the people it works in Firefox, the other half it doesn't. I still have no idea why it doesn't play just in Firefox for me, Chrome and Edge it works fine.
FWIW, I get the same indications as several others, it looks fine when I look at the post, when I click on it, after a moment it just goes all black and hangs.
Well, I forgot to say it works on Firefox running under LinuxMint 22.1.
I'm not sure what's going on here, but it is not limited to just John's video. CLICK HERE for an example posted by another forum member in another thread, that exhibits the same issue.
I'm going to get Crowdstack Tech Support involved in this.
Not on my ipad.
@Rich Melvin posted:I'm not sure what's going on here, but it is not limited to just John's video. CLICK HERE for an example posted by another forum member in another thread, that exhibits the same issue.
I'm going to get Crowdstack Tech Support involved in this.
Yep, does the same thing for me Rich, glad to know it's not just my videos. 
FWIW, a different video posted the previous post in that same thread also does it on my machine.
https://ogrforum.com/topic/760...3#188804206529105423
Both videos run fine with Chrome on my machine.
Played for me but I'm running MS Edge.
@feet posted:Played for me but I'm running MS Edge.
Chrome and MS Edge appear to both work with the problem videos. It would be nice if there was some hint as to why they don't play...
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Wow, talk about a varied mix! Half the people it works in Firefox, the other half it doesn't. I still have no idea why it doesn't play just in Firefox for me, Chrome and Edge it works fine.
FWIW, I get the same indications as several others, it looks fine when I look at the post, when I click on it, after a moment it just goes all black and hangs.
Here it is when I just view the post.
So, I click on the play arrow and I get this.
If move the cursor off the window, I get a plain black screen.
John- I often have the same issue with FF. Chrome usually works fine. I'm ready to jump ship too.
Bob
From Crowdstack Tech Support:
I see similar issues with that video in Firefox on Windows but it plays in Firefox on Mac. I do not see any errors in the logs. I will keep looking to see if I can figure anything out. I see that Firefox 135.0 was released on February 4th.
It appears this is due to the Firefox 135 update which was released on February 4. HERE is a page for troubleshooting this.
@Rich Melvin posted:From Crowdstack Tech Support:
I see similar issues with that video in Firefox on Windows but it plays in Firefox on Mac. I do not see any errors in the logs. I will keep looking to see if I can figure anything out. I see that Firefox 135.0 was released on February 4th.
It appears this is due to the Firefox 135 update which was released on February 4. HERE is a page for troubleshooting this.
I'd believe them except that when I first noticed this, I was running Firefox 133. I noticed an update pending so I updated Firefox to "fix" it, and it has the same problem with 135. I think Crowdstack is just trying to pass the buck. 
The odd thing with me is, John's plays as a black screen. Both Chrome and Firefox.
But the train video (I watched it when it first posted) plays fine...yep, I would not want to live in that house either.
I attributed my problem to old browsers on an computer just shy of being as old as I am. To me, this is nothing new, it is a several times a day experience! And I have a 2.5 mbps DSL.
Greg
@cngw posted:The odd thing with me is, John's plays as a black screen. Both Chrome and Firefox.
But the train video (I watched it when it first posted) plays fine...yep, I would not want to live in that house either.
I attributed my problem to old browsers on an computer just shy of being as old as I am. To me, this is nothing new, it is a several times a day experience! And I have a 2.5 mbps DSL.
Greg
That's a new wrinkle, none of the videos fail in Chrome for me, they all play just fine.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:That's a new wrinkle, none of the videos fail in Chrome for me, they all play just fine.
Key word.......OLD computer and browser. I am not a good example!
Of anything.
More from Crowdstack Tech Support:
I downloaded the video file and tried playing it in Firefox right off my hard drive, removing Crowdstack from the equation, and I see the same issue. On Windows 10 it won't play in Firefox but it does in Chrome. On my Mac it plays in Firefox and Chrome. So it seems I like it is a browser issue.
I don't know if it was the 135.0 Firefox release that caused the problem but ask your users to see if they still have problems with Firefox when trying to play videos straight off disk.
There ya go. It’s a Firefox/Windows problem.
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