Adobe FP and MySpace vids : a bug story ?

Question

Hi, there,
First of all, please forgive me if my english is not brilliant, or if explanations are not clear. If you don't understand, just ask, I'll do my best. Thks.
Since a month, more or less, I cannot see anymore MySpace videos. I don't know why, and have been asking to the help team (but maybe... there's "no" help team in MS... ...) so many times without any answer. Asked and looked for, many places. Here is my last chance ! ^^
Here are the.. "symptoms" :
° I cannot read MS videos. (only these, I can see all other, as youtube, etc). There is a centered logo, turning as a wheel, and nothing starts :
or, recently :
° when I right -click on the video space, a little window for FP parameters appears, but it is frozen, I cannot change anything :
..impossible to clik on other little icons, nor close.
° I'm on a MAC (Macbook Core2Duo, Leo 10.5.7, using usually Firefox 3.5.2, no viruses detected, all apps & plugins uptaded, regularly cleaned, anti-spyware, enough available space (32 Go), etc...).
° This bug appears also if I use Safari (4.0.2), or Opera (10.00). This is why I think it might be a problem with my configuration, not with the browser itself.
° I have checked in my Internet plugins, thinking there could be an incompatibility ; here are they :
(in "Disabled", there is "NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave" ; why there, I don't know).
° I have checked in the system preferences / security : there is no blocking in the firewall for MySpace (cookies also accepted, etc). Checked also authorizations... Well, I sought nearly everywhere, but... I'm not informatician. v_v
Please, help me, if you think you can. I'll give all further informations you should need. Thank you. Have a good day..
Chris

Answer 1

Hello Tafu and BWolfe,
In the meantime I did some other things. But nothing worked realy.
-I destalled completley from the adobe flashplayer and adobe shockwave player.
-Reinstalled Flash 10 but not the shockwave player, don't know if or whenever I will need that. Checked, but nothing helped.
-I saw in the adobe flashplayer 10 that I needed at least 2.33 Mhz Pentium 4 for that.
Somewhere else in the Adobe specs. 0.45 Mhz was demanded....  No need to follow that trail.
-I changed the codex to K-Lite complete edition. Nothing changed but left it that way.
-I changed my IE8 security settings for mediaplaying, a tip from a Myspace user. Did not help but I left it that way.
-I installed Chrome, the Google browser and got a message at playing time that Java was not running and flash was not loaded.
I was sure both were loaded and active. Chrome offered me an option to display the java script whitch showed 2 errors for
direct adressing url's. I learned from the script statements that the flashplayer was installed and ready. It was waiting
for content or the stream, confirmed by what I saw on my screen on Myspace.
At this moment I started thinking of my hardware and drivers. Because I had a YouTube full screen display problem 2 years ago.
-I looked for the Intel Graphics Express 965 Chipset driver and downloaded latest version.
Windows updates my system, but not this time.
Than I logged in for myspace and YES! There were the video's.
I logged in for an other site with suspected display problems, surrounding text suggested video's there, but not even a player showed.
Nothing had changed there yet... I unloaded the browsers and started IE8 again and the players showed there and video's started!
The graphics driver for my system I downloaded from:
http://http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17407&ProdId=2800&la ng=eng
Thanks for your questions and suggestions you helped me to get courage to digg in this for an other time.