Win 7 IE11 BBC embeded videos not working

a1ex2001 · 18 Oct 2016 at 15:21

Noticed today/yesterday that BBC embedded videos ie those in sports articles have stopped working on my PC instead I get a message saying 'Media playback is not supported on this device' I have re-installed flash and checked windows update and everything appears fine. I installed google chrome and the videos work there.

Anyone got any ideas other than stop using ie

marc2003 · 18 Oct 2016 at 15:34

I think they're trying to get rid of flash by using html5 video. According to this page, it only works in IE11 on windows 10.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

a1ex2001 · 18 Oct 2016 at 16:18

marc2003 said:
I think they're trying to get rid of flash by using html5 video. According to this page, it only works in IE11 on windows 10.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5

Thanks I had feared something like that oh well looks like chrome for bbc browsing now then. Not sure why I use IE anyway I was a big firefox fan for a long time but then drifted back.

KIA · 18 Oct 2016 at 19:17

The BBC news site doesn't support HTML5. :/

My Win7 VM has the same issue.