streaming video

Tried searching this forum as I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem but since updating to IE7, I can't play streaming video such as from a TV news website. I'm pretty sure it's a security setting but don't want to lower below medium. Using IE& along with xp home. Tried with and without Zonealarm. I uninstalled ie7 once before and had no trouble with ie6. Thanks for any help. Ted

 

Are you behind a router? Dialup, DSL, Cable, Satellite or what?

 

I'm hardwired to a linksys router, as I mentioned had no trouble with IE6. Shutting down Zonealarm made no difference. Shutting down Avast made no difference either. Thanks for the response

 

http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/tweaks.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support/default.mspx +
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/tour/fre/interface/index.html +
http://www.ie-vista.com/toolbar.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/community/ie/default.mspx
http://www.updatexp.com/cd-index.html
http://www.ie-vista.com



VLC Media Player
http://mail.vnunet.com/cgi-bin1/flo/y/eocq0Hd7VN0QEE0C8eI0Ez
VLC media player = http://www.videolan.org/vlc

 

Any error message come up? If you right click on where the Video is supposed to be, what does it say? Flash, WMP or what?

 

I open fox news and click on video, another window opens and in left corner there is a screen, says free video player but nothing happens, I think there is a security issue blocking it. Someone else posted a bunch of links, will go through them and see if I can find an answer, thanks all. Oh, there is no error message, just nothing happens.

 

For some reason, I always have better luck playing those when I use
= http://www.opera.com/index.html + http://www.opera.com/download/

 

not ready to change browsers yet, although, I'm close, might just go back to ie6 again.

 

What I meant was that while Opera is one of the 8 browsers I have on my pc, it is not my regular browser, but I usualy just open it when I want to play some embetted vids. Of course, I'm sure the other browsers would play them ok if I fiddled arounf and made some adjustments in the settings, but I figure why bother when I know Opera will play them, as is.

 

Well, does that mean Opera is less secure then? I don't know what IE is blocking that I can't play in 7 what I could play in 6.

 

Details on Internet Explorer 7's security improvements = http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6128517.html

How to stop an ActiveX control from running in Internet Explorer = http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797

Understanding Protected Mode: Protected Mode is an important step forward in security for Internet Explorer =
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ry/en-us/IETechCol/dnwebgen/ProtectedMode.asp