Can't play videos/Flash - Tried everything!
Hello, as I said I have tried several solutions here. I am on my schools website and it has videos I need to watch and I what I think are flash videos/HTML5 videos. The flash interactive activities seem to be working fine, but not the videos (flash/html5). The other videos which are in i think .mp4 format were just giving me the VLC cone and no options when right clicked/clicked at all. The windows media player is not supported on my 64-bit firefox browser and in quicktime it gives me the quicktime logo, then the first frame of the video but nothing else. My silverlight is up to date. I tried realplayer but couldn't get the app installed on firefox add-ons and I don't think switching players will solve this problem now anyway.
On the flash/html5 videos that im trying to get to work it says "a plugin is needed to play this content" so I have reinstalled java and flash several times with it not working still.
I have also tried various "always activate" and "never activate" schemes.
this link: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-video-audio-problems-firefox-windows under my OS which is 64-bit windows 7 says that it's not applicable to my version of windows, but they only have 1 form of windows 7 update available.
Really not sure what else I can try!
Thanks in advance.
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I have Win 7 and had no problem with that page.
Fix video and audio playback problems on Firefox for Windows Some versions of Windows are missing Windows Media Player and other media-related technologies needed to decode and play videos and music properly. Microsoft offers a Windows Media Feature Pack (for versions designated as Windows N and KN editions) and a Platform Update Supplement (for Windows Vista and Server 2008) that you can download to add this functionality.
Solution To resolve this, please download and install the Media Feature Pack or Platform Update Supplement that's appropriate for your version of Windows:
Windows 7:
Windows 7: N and KN editions<web Link> (Microsoft Support article KB968211<web link>)
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Sorry I must have confused you. I could open the link I referred to, I just couldn't do what it suggested. I downloaded and tried them both even though i only needed the x64 one. Both say "not applicable to your computer". Any further suggestions?
It might be because I already have windows media player, but that brings me back to what can I do about this?
Perform a System File Check to fix corrupted system files Win 7, 8, 10, Vista: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833 Win XP: https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/system_file_checker.mspx?mfr=true
See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration