# What do you have to do to get a video to play on CNN.com?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557 "2007-07-12T22:36:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557/1 "2007-07-12T22:36:56Z")

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In their new format. All I get is that promo for “Voyeur” over and over and over and over and over. I’ve tried putting the videos I want to see in my playlist, but I don’t know how to enable the playlist.

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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557/2 "2007-07-13T02:55:33Z")

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I just watched the “toddler gets kicked off of the plane video”. I clicked on the link off of the main page. It played the Voyeur video and then went straight into the toddler one. I’ve had problems using Firefox in the past but it works just fine with IE7.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557/3 "2007-07-13T03:08:59Z")

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I enabled Javascript from [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) and [cnn.net](http://cnn.net), then it worked. FF 2.0.0.7 on Mac OS 10.4.10.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-to-do-to-get-a-video-to-play-on-cnn-com/411557/4 "2007-07-13T03:17:46Z")

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Yes, that’s the ticket. It works on my IE, but not on Mr. Rilch’s Firefox. He has the better sound system, but so be it.