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Thanks Rollo. I wondered if it was that.

Firefox / Mozilla has taken upon itself to make open warfare on Flash video. The result is that with the latest updates you may get "video not supported" message. This can even extend to BBC iPlayer and some YouTube channels. fwiw it also extends to a lot of pron and gambling sites but that is another story lol.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/14/mozilla-blocks-all-versions-of-adobe-flash-in-firefox/

pain

Mozilla claim to be doing this because of a vulnerability in Flash which might allow a flash video to take over yr machine. The reality is more to do with money and license fees since they decided to forego Google funding. The vulnerability has never been detected in "the wild". Blocking Flash also blocks a vast amount of legacy video and apps most of which will never be converted to H264. fwiw the old ITV version of GU depended on Flash!

Additionally they are pulling support for plugins inc some popular ones which allowed ez download of videos.

If you don't fancy sorting out Firefox Flash blocking the alternatives are

(a) PaleMoon (free) which uses the Mozilla engine, allows more custimisation and doesn't block anything.

(b) Mozilla developer version - has same limitations but much easier to override back to "normal"

(c) Opera, Chrome don't do this BUT Chrome will disappear as an option for XP users real soon now

(d) Android only use Dolphin or Chrome

For web developers the whole video standards war has been an expensive and time consuming pain in the whatsit.

good luck

Rollo, What reason could there be for the video not being supported by my browser. I have had a few things happening on here recently and wonder if something has got deleted in error. I am on Firefox.

http://goo.gl/glVRYx