What's happened to Iplayer

[Cath RJ]

I use Firefox and untill the other day could watch BBC iplayer through it. Suddenly I can't and have to go through IE. Can anyone suggest why and offer a solution?

Thanks

[lorry53]

Hi Cath, I use Firefox (v3.6.8) and can watch iPlayer without any problem. Do you get an error message?

[Cath RJ]

I get through to iplayer right up to the "play" arrow and then it says that it can't play just now, try later. It's been like this for several days now.

[lorry53]

How odd. Is it with any programme or a specific one? If you can use IE it doesn't indicate a problem with iPlayer. It could be that your version of Flash is out of date. Go here and click on the "Test your Adobe Flash Player installation." It will show which version you have and if you then scroll down, it will show which version is the most current. There's also a link to the Player Download Centre. If you have the current version, you might want to see if the BBC help pages have any advice.

[margaretmarch]

I imagine that IE has made itself the default browser for Iplayer so you need to reset that. Perhaps there was an automatic update of IE which made the change or maybe even Iplayer.
Margaret

[borobabs]

I have the same proplem but with windows media player opens but nothing happens even if I press play are replay etc , does my head in

[lorry53]

I have the same proplem but with windows media player opens but nothing happens even if I press play are replay etc , does my head in

WMP probably doesn't have the codec required to play the files. I always use Videolan's VLC media player for all of my video files and it's never failed me yet. Of course, it won't resolve the iPlayer problem, but it will work with any video files you have on your PC.