Safari behaviour with BBC website

Question

Since installing Leopard on my MacBook the BBC website is misbehaving. I solved the video problem by downloading RealPlayer 10 (thanks for the postings on this). BUT ...
The banner at the top of the BBC News opening page flickers. Parts of the page do not show until I move the cursor around.
Can't say I have seen this problem on other websites - is this a BBC-Leopard specific problem or some other more general problem?Any known solution?

Answer 1

This is a University machine and hence uses Sophos antivirus.
That could possibly be a problem. Is it the latest Leopard compatible version?
http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/endpoint/security-and-control/mac/
My Home Library Safari
That should be fine.
The higher level Internet Plugins appear to include some from my 1.8GHz Power PC G5 since I used Firewire to move files and applications to the new Macbook but before installing Leopard. Do I just move these to the Disabled folder and then add them back one by one?
They may not all be Intel compatible, so should probably not be moved willy-nilly from the G5! Check on the manufacturers' websites to see if they are in Universal Binary (will work with either) or PPC (won't work with your Macbook) or Intel (OK).
As this is a fresh install you could do worse than read the following and adapt it to your needs:
These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!
It is known to work in the great majority of cases with Safari 3.0.4, QT 7.3 and OS 10.4.11.
Assuming you already run Tiger versions OS 10.4.9 or above (this has not yet been verified with Leopard) and have Quicktime 7.2 or above, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install (or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:
RealPlayer 10 for Mac from http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?platform2=Mac%20OS%20X&product= RealPlayer%2010&proc=g3&lang=&show_list=0&src=macjack
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from http://perian.org/
Adobe FlashPlayer from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.)
In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).
See also the very informative post from QuickTimeKirk dated Dec 3, 2007 in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1268489&tstart=0
In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).
Now go to Safari Preferences/Security, and tick the boxes under Web Content (all 4 of them).
Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz.
Important: Now repair permissions and restart.
The world should now be your oyster!
You should also consider having the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.