This is something that just started happening after upgrading Drupal, so I don't know if there's some errant javascript somewhere that is getting stored in the page cache, however what has started happening is that videos try to come up in IE and the spinner just spins and the video never plays. I have the "devel" module enabled, and if I do a "clear cache" for the drupal cache tables, then the video will play. So something that is messing up IE flash is getting stored in the cache. This isn't an issue for Firefox or Safari.

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attheshow commented

I haven't heard of this issue before and I'm not sure how to duplicate it. I will say that the FlashVideo module does not include any javascript.

marita93’s picture

marita93 commented

I got the videos working by going to the database and clearing out by hand all the cache tables. Not sure why "clear cache" wasn't taking care of this, I reported this on the wrong module! Sorry to bother you, you can close it.

attheshow’s picture

attheshow commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Alrighty then. Thanks for letting me know. :)

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marita93 commented

Here's another update in case anybody else sees this..... I found that IE hangs playing videos when a user addresses mywebsite as follows: http://www.mywebsite.com - and I have to clear the cache to get it to play. However, if the user comes to the website with this address http://mywebsite.com - IE doesn't hang at all! I have no idea why this would occur, but I changed my .htaccess to always use the http://mywebsite.com .... and it seems to have done the trick. This is true for both IE 6 and 7, haven't tested 8 yet.