Some webcams will not play

I have 2 laptops runing Firefox 30 in a Linux/Ubuntu setup.
In one, all live streaming from webcams functions perfectly. In the other many webcams are grey'd out with the meassage "Video format or MIME not supported" or there is simply a blank area on the page.
I have read info on the forums abouit refreshing the screen/page but this either does not or happen or has no effect..!?
Baffled as to why the behaviour of two near identicalmachines should be different.

Cor-el many thanks for these suggestions.
I have been in and out of the sites and have discovered (stumbled on) a solution to the initial problem -- although I do not understand why it works.
The problem now on both laptops appears to only occur on the RSPB sites when I/we log into them along a set of particular clicks, or use a bookmark saved from yesterday.
Starting from a differnt RSPB link in google, and loging into the identical webcam site it now works on both computers !!!! ?
However, they do fail to hold the link after rebuffering a couple of times.
Not a great problem because relaunching the link restores the stream.
So I have a partial solution, but no real idea why it works.....
Thanks everybody for your time and suggestions
Mike P (aka KnottyPine)
P.S. I'm still curious as to what is actually going on, if anyone has any thoughts.........

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