im having problems viewing videos on here it comes up with error media cannot be played any idea why ?

which type of error do you have ?

it's not clear what's happened,please explain! :-S

keeps coming up error loading media file cannot be played

Glad I'm not the only one!

Weirdly, I've been having the same problem with videos I've put up myself!!

I find if you keep perservering and try skipping ahead a few seconds they will eventually play!

Turning off the chat module seems to help. I think it may be a bandwidth issue.

I get that same error.
It's because I refuse to install Flash player on this computer. (Makes every browser unstable)

The only videos that work without Flash Player are ones from Youtube that work on the HTML5 codec instead of Adobe's Flash Rubbish.

IE Does not properly support HTML5. (Or any web standards)
Firefox Does support HTML5 Video, in a limited form (It's what I use)

You should be able to play the videos in Chrome though, as it has it's own inbuilt Flash compatibility. but Chrome is rubbish on RAM usage, and crashes constantly on low ram machines with more than a few tabs open. (Low is 6GiB or less)

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Looks like recently the Video Player on here was changed from JWPlayer (Which required Flash) to some other HTML5 compliant Video player (Or was Updated to a new version of JWPlayer) (As i can actually see previews for once!)

Try Firefox or Chrome. see if that makes any difference.

not had this issue till recently so i dunno whats caused it

this is the error im getting hopefully pic shows

I'm seeing the same error on the trailers of videos I've just released.

In Firefox, that error comes up.
In Chrome, the video appears to load but you then get just the soundtrack - the video itself is black.