Some of the people I follow on Twitter post short videos which play with something called Vine. Or I should say, they used to play. Now they don’t. There’s an option to “View on web” but the videos don’t play in that new window either. There is a green “Download App” button which takes me to a page where I can BUY the app from iTunes or Google. Is it correct that Vine videos used to play at Twitter without one buying the app but this has changed so that now the app must be purchased in order to view the videos?
If you’re using Google Chrome, you have to do this:
Enter “Chrome://flags” in the address bar.
Find an entry that says “Disable hardware-accelerated video decode.”
Click “Enable”
I’m not an IT person so I don’t know exactly why this fixes it, but it does.
I use Firefox. Is there anyway for Firefox users to continue to view Vine videos without buying the app?
Nevermind. Figured it out. I have DownloadHelper and it downloads the Vine videos which I can watch with VLC Player.
Vine videos still play embedded in the Twitter web client for me. You need to click on the tweet to expand it.
I don’t know what the Twitter web client is.
Ditto here. I know “works for me” isn’t a very satisfactory answer but… works for me.
Twitter did turn off Instagram images though. But that’s different.
Edit: Randwill brings up a good point, what Twitter client are you using? If you’re not using an official Twitter client, all bets are off on what media it can display other than plain tweets. (I’ve seen some that can’t even display images in-line.)
I don’t know what a Twitter client is. I have a Twitter account, I go to it and there are the Tweets of the people I follow.
Ok, well let’s start from step one: do you use Twitter on a PC or a phone?
When you say you “go to your Twitter account”, do you do that by opening an application (desktop icon) or going to a web page?
I go to https://twitter.com/ using Mozilla Firefox on a Windows 7 PC.
Ok then you are using the Twitter web client. Just FYI, Twitter is kind of like email in that there are dozens of different client applications capable of sending and receiving tweets.
In that case, you might be blocking Flash? Blocking Flash would also stop Vine movies.
Flash is what YouTube uses, correct? Vids play fine there and at other sites. Unless there is some Twitter-specific Flash blocking going on. I haven’t (knowingly) made any changes in my Firefox configuration. It was just that they always played before and then one day they didn’t play anymore. There’s just the one frame displayed in the box and no amount of clicking on it will get it to start the movie.
There are Firefox plugins (for example) that can block Flash only for specific sites, so it’s possible to have Flash blocked on Twitter.com and not YouTube.com. But if you haven’t set that up yourself, it’s unlikely.
Frankly, I don’t know the solution.