Videos will not play while logged in to my account

None of the videos on Giant Bomb will play unless I choose to download them. Once I do so, the video plays in my browser (Firefox 34, Win 7, 64-bit). Strangely enough, logging out of my account lets me play any video on the site. Once the ad roll lets me skip, the video plays in the video player. This happens when using Chrome or IE as well.

Seems like the video player defaults to HTML5 for me. Before hitting play, if I switch to progressive or streaming, the videos play fine. If I would have read further in the forum, I would have seen that HTML5 is having issues right now for people.

Looks like, for the moment, you'll have to go with the "right click and choose play from the menu" workaround if you want to play HTML5 videos on the site rather than downloading them.

@andyboy: @wacomole: Are you guys both having the same issue? Trying replicate, might be relegated to a windows / FF issue? Can you guys try on a different browser? Curious if this is related to something else or not.

@jslack: Looks like it works fine with Chrome and IE when logged in or out with HTML5. Weird that it didn't before I posted. Could be user error on my part.

@andyboy: Nah, we've isolated it. Issue with Windows & Firefox. Looks like something changed in the player recently, and it had an adverse affect. Sorry about that. Can you use Chrome for the time being? (or, throw away your windows machine, j/k, not j/k).

If you're on Firefox and have HTML5 selected then you're going to be sad. Firefox is protesting the mp4 standard and refuses to support it and that's what we serve. We shouldn't be allowing you to have the HTML5 option selected. That's our fault and we'll fix that. We can't publish the format that Firefox wants because its greatly inferior to mp4 and takes up too much space.

Please yell at Firefox telling them to get off their "standards" soapbox...

@edgework: Maybe it's time I switch to a new browser on my Windows machine.

@edgework: @jslack: Hmmm. OK. The only browser I have on my PC is Firefox.

On videos where it's available, if I want to get me some 60fps goodness does it have to be the HTML5 option or are the Progressive and Streaming ones now coming in 60fps flavours?

@wacomole: If/when 60Fps is available, will be available in all streaming options.