Been enjoying the NTS videos. Don't think I will go next year, but just sit home an wait for the interviews to appear on here.  Great job you three have done.

Bob Hayes

Un-able to view any of the videos. Try as I may I get the same error message as Jappa.  Running XP,  latest Flash player from today (updated to see if fixed issue). The Flasplayer test runs, It is not a blocked pop-up. I see the window open but error is indicated at bottom of screen and that is it.  Any suggestions before I just give up on this site.  Suggesting to view it on another computer is not a solution.

Marc

Jappe's issue was security-related. Jappe, can you pass on the exact fix that got the videos playing for you?

It sounds like a firewall protection issue of some sort. You probably have your machine locked down rather tight, temporarily lifting the security restrictions for the domain model-railroad-hobbyist.com may help.

Marc, if you'll work with us, we'll get it working for you - but some issues may take a day or two to get worked out, if you can hang in there, we'll get the videos playing.

See this Microsoft knowledgebase article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934366

You have a couple of choices to fix the issue. One is to hack the registry to allow the flash video to play. The other is to add our streaming video site:

vps880.inmotionhosting.com

As a trusted zone.

You also have a third option - move to the Firefox browser instead of IE. Browsers are free, and Firefox will import all your favorites. Most internet-savvy people I know have at least two browsers they use regularly, and if a site won't work in one, they'll just try the other. Having two different browsers in your "bag of tricks" will get you around most site issues easily.

Let me know how it goes. One of these methods should get the videos to play for you. We've had thousands of views of the video content here now with only Jappe and your problems being reported so far. And it appears the cause of your problem is Microsoft's attempt to make your box "more secure" with their latest browser updates.

To all involved in the video productions - great job! They ran very well on my old Athlon 1900 with an almost-as-old nvidia graphics card. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of them - hurry up and post them, OK?!

(Where's the font color button, by the way?)

One thought about the intro to each video comes to mind - watching several videos, it got a tad old seeing it time after time. Would it be too out of line to suggest an abbreviated version?

Once again, great job on the videos, and also thanks a bunch for spending the time and effort to do this!

Mark:

What can I say, the intro is the cost of getting free video. People can link to these videos from anywhere on the internet so we want people to know about MRH when they watch the video. We tried to make it quick and painless, and even a little fun - the total intro run time is 26 seconds ... small price to pay for free, don't you think?

We'd be happy to drop the 26 seconds if you'd be willing to pay for the magazine and videos ... <wink>

Joe, I'd say keep the into. Even though it can seem like forever to go by, I think its needed for free content.

Joe,

I had tried the Microsoft fix 934366,  there is no such  entry in my IE 7 register regarding method 1. So much for that. 

I had all ready tried to adding VPS880.inmotionhosting.com  as per  method 2.  It  gets truncated to inmotionhosting.com for some reason only Microsoft can answer and does not resolve the issue.

I'll wait and see if Jappa can provide insight on his solution. His post was rather vague on his fix.  I perused the "security" and did not find anything special.

I have FIREFOX ( hate it ) on another  machine,  of course other machine does not have the speakers. These  videos are the first I encounter problems viewing with my setup.

I can browse thru all of the magazine demos without issue, Just the videos i'd like to see and hear.

Great initiative by the way. Best of luck

Marc

OK.. Go it going now...

It was in Internet Options, Advance, Security : Remove the tick mark from  " Allow active content to run in files on my computer ".   Once I re-read the Microsoft tip again and tried working backwards (ok the bug happens with this on, let's put this off) .

* Mental note;  remembre to reload the application when you make changes to it !...

I had a good laugh on that sequence,  someone at MS has quite the sense of humour... Realistic, I hope not.  What in blazes do they do on long runs.  I found it interesting but then I asked myself, how do they stay awake.

Marc