LiveLeak Player no longer Works

OK, So I have noticed lately, I'm discarding quite a few posts because I'm not getting any votes on them.
As it turns out, No one can vote if they can't watch the video.

The videos work just fine on LiveLeak but won't play in video sift.
Having a look on LiveLeak's site, I noticed a link at the top of each video that reads "Change Flash Player (If you experience problems)"
It looks like they have updated their video player. Clicking the link allows you to switch to V.4 instead of using the new V.5

They have obviously been experiencing problems with the player or they wouldn't have the link.
Clicking the link does nothing for fixing the Videosift posts but, I'm guessing, it's the reasons their videos aren't working here lately.

A few of my current posts that don't seem to be working on the sift but are working on Liveleak are:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Agreement
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Brokaw-Explains-Canada-To-Americans
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obama-is-a-Liar-This-guy-Hates-Obama

This LiveLeak video works but seems to be using the old player:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Business-Steals-Land
geo321 says...

I've been noticing the same thing. Some liveleak videos embed perfectly to VS and others end up with a grey buffering that will only play if you click on it and go to liveleak. People at liveleak can upload a lot of different video formats. I'm thinking one of the newer formats doesn't jive with videosift.

burdturgler says...

There is some difference between the way liveleak is embedding it at their site and the way it gets embedded here, and it has something to do with longtailvideo.com providing a way to monetize the views. All I know is that I can view something at liveleak but the embed from that exact same video I can not view here.
link

burdturgler says...

edit .. well I promoted this because I saw someone else was still having problems with liveleak vids but, I see now that all the links for them are suddenly working for me.
I'm still using the latest firefox and flash (didn't do a re-install or anything). Maybe liveleak got their player sorted out?
errm *unpromote?

RadHazG says...

I can get no liveleak vids to work here at all, I get nothing. Not a grey loading bar, not a window that wont work, just pure nothing. Anything with liveleak just gets a big blank space and zippady do dah there. I can right click and click on settings to see the flash player options, but other than that I can never see anything.

Not sure what fixed for you Burd, mines still all busted. I'm using Vista and Firefox atm, but it started back when I was still using XP so /shrug.

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