I wanted to view an older “Cody’s Office” episode because it had a segment I wanted to review. However, I didn’t get the video “window”. Just some text, and a link to “video FAQ’s” that seems to bring me to a generic Kalmbach landing page.
Thinking that maybe the older episode had aged off or whatever, I thought I’d try the latest episode just to see if it worked. But no-go on the current one, either. Same symptoms as above.
Tried it on both Firefox 3.6.8 and IE 8, same results on both. Tried some other videos on the site and get the same results on those, too. Yes, I’m logged in.
The only thing I can think of is that I’ve got my Flash player locked down pretty tight. But it usually throws an error when that causes an issue with Flash content. Is the video content here using Flash, and just not throwing up an error?
Well, I figured out that to get the videos to play I had to allow my Flash player to store 3rd party content.
From a security standpoint, globally allowing that really isn’t a good idea, but I suppose I can turn it on for this Web site when I want to view the videos here, and then turn it back off.
That worked for me too. I agree that this is a security hole and really [D)] for MR to require lowering our security settings to view a video. Maybe someone on the staff will read this thread and fix the site.
In the mean time, if anyone else needs to know how to open this hole feel free to PM me. you are responsible for the security of your own system.
Begin with a right click on the (area of) missing video, open global settings, click on global storage panel. It’s easy from there.
Karl
Edit: I tried setting the “amount of space for storage …” to zero and it still worked. This should eliminate some of the flash cookies.