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I am also having a similar (same?) problem. I uploaded a video using Firefox 2.0.0.9 and used the embedding code supplied by Vimeo while using Firefox to embed the video here: tinyxl.com (you have to scroll down to see it). When you look at tinyxl.com in Internet Explorer 6.0.2, the video shows up as a white box, whereas it works perfectly in Firefox. Any ideas on how to make it work in IE?

We are having similar problems.

Embedded videos not working in IE 6.0 or 7.0. IE requires the tag.

Oops, my mistake. I forgot to include the word "embed" as in "IE requires the embed tag."

I have this issue in WordPress / IE7. I found embed-code here vimeo.com/forums/topic:2009 but that doesn't work either.

yes using IE & here and embedding using Windows Live writter, xanga, blogger, myspace, all don't work. Thats one reason I havent been able to use vimeo for a long time, but you tuibe sucks, and if vimeo could fix, this I would soo use it more often!

Both codes (embed & object) work fine. Problem was with my software setup.

Sorry but I'm experiencing the same bug. What exactly do you mean with "your software setup".

My Embedded Vimeo-Videos are not playing in Internet-Explorer either.

Example:

gwegner.de/allgemein/chapada-diamantina-multimedia-diashow/#top3

I can view videos but cant log in to add a contact

Well, I can only see a white box. Tried it on two different computers with xp/ie 6. Flashplugin is working.

I just recently added Vimeo widget to my site guerrillafitness.co.nz and it works great on Firefox but on IE there's a box saying 'Guerrilla Fitness has not uploaded any videos yet'

Any suggestions? Would love to use this feature, but will have to take it off if not universal.

'Guerrilla Fitness has not uploaded any videos yet'
Same thing happeneds to us, when we try to watch it in IE i one computer. But in another computer with IE, we can watch it.
Strang. Why does this problem appere?

We're having the same problem. We uploaded videos to our site and they play fine in IE6 and Firefox, but anyone with Vista and IE7 are not able to view the videos. Any solutions yet? We love VIMEO, with a capital "L", but this issue is forcing us to look for an alternative like Brightcove, which we'd rather not do. Please help. thanks.

I am getting complaints from IE users that Vimeo video placed on my site is not working and showing up as white boxes. The videos are located at: tns-us.com/greenlife/

I looked at them in IE and they were fine. Not sure if this is Flash issue, browser issue, Vimeo issue? Is there a different embed code I should try?

I'm having really big problems with embedded videos on my site and IE users. It works fine in other browsers, and I think it's an issue with flash versions. I think it also may only happen when the widescreen player is used. See this URL:

thingelstad.com/great-music-greg-merkle/

If you go there with IE (and dozens of visitors have told me this) you get an error on page load that is very cryptic, some object error. Then the page reverts to the IE "network connection reset" page. If you hit the "Back" button the page that you originally requested will show. Perhaps the onLoad events aren't triggered then?

Anyway, this ONLY happens if a Vimeo video is embedded. Help?!?!?! It's 100% reproducible for me. If you need screenshots, let me know and I'll go get some.

So you can see this behavior, here is a video of the page loading and the error being thrown.

vimeo.com/1092751

Alright -- you guys suggested I had broken HTML on my page so I went digging. In fact, I did have one broken HTML tag on my page and I removed it from the page. However, this doesn't make the problem go away.

I went and looked further and indeed confirmed that on the exact same browser, this page with Vimeo embedded video works great

thingelstad.com/flashback-bigcharts-on-cnbc/

while this page causes the "Internet Explorer cannot open (URL). Operation aborted." bug.

thingelstad.com/great-music-greg-merkle

Both of these URL's are from the same site, with the same theme, and same surrounding HTML. The 4:3 one works fine, no issues. The 16:9 one throws that bug, everytime.

Several visitors to my site are still reporting these issues... my only fix for now is to move the Vimeo embeds to a single page view only as it completely hoses things up.

I really don't see how this can be an issue with my site given that the 4:3 player works, and the 16:9 player doesn't.

Help?

This is with Flash Player WIN 9,0,124,0 on Win XP SP3 using IE 7.0.5730.11.

Just to be really whacky and try yet another alternative -- I switched WordPress themes completely and still have the same issue as above.

Yup, I'm getting people still complain about just white boxes coming up. Every user that complains is a IE user. That's not to say ALL IE users are complaining, but many are.

All Vimeo videos are showing as white boxes for me, on both IE6 and IE7, on two separate computers. Not only on the site I'm working on ( akselmorisse.se/ ), but also on any page on vimeo.com.

If I right-click on the box, the contextual menu says "Movie not loaded... - About Flash Player 9..."

In Firefox and Safari, everything is fine.

Ok, I seem to have fixed the problem by removing the extra linebreaks I had added to the embed code for clarity. Stupid bloody Internet Exploder.

Ah, no; that only fixed it for IE7. IE6 is still not playing nice.

Flash Player 9 is installed, I've cleared the cache and cookies etc, and no Vimeo videos are loading.

Baffled.

any news on this? I am seeing similar issues in ie7/ie6. firefox is fine

I have the same issue. I'm using tumblr, and when I post and embed I use firefox to do so, but the videos are showing up as white boxes in both versions of IE xplorer (6 an 7)

hello,

got the ~same problem.

videos are not showing in IE nut working fine in FF.

it must be an issue between flash content and IE in general (same problem yith youtube). i found sites that work but mine does not.
tried a lot . i changed the code added js by dreamweaver... no results...

heres the link to the page: visuals.martinlorenz.at/

i cant ignore this, as there are still people out there using IE (why?!?)
anyway, i am very glad for any help or advice!!!!!!

yes true. but before i installed this script (dreamweaver put it in automatically) i couldnt even load the page in IE...
the first time an error message popup showed up. but if i reloaded it (just hit enter another time) it worked.... (but without showing the vids...
i figured it is better to leave in the js so the site can be showen in IE and i can write to use firefox...

anyway i had the same problem testing it without the script. something must be rotten with my code. but what?
maybe its not even the embeded code...

have you experienced indifferences between lightbox and vimeo (or other vids ) if used at the same page?

by the way, thanks for your super rapid support!
and i have to say i will use vimeo from now on and ditch my youtube account. you guys are really sympatic!

greetings from vienna! .mrt

i have a similar issue that i tried looking for but to no avail, when i try to put my channels url in Internet Explorer 6 it wont work, untill you go to the page where it says, you may click this link, and its the SAME link i just posted in the address bar, but then and only then does it it work. i know its not a problem with this particular site, but any site that uses extensionless urls, meaning a url that doesnt have a / marking a folder or any type of html, php, any other extension. does anyone know what what should go at the end to work around this? i dont wanna have to explain to the major ie6 users what to do. thanks.

Jamie Thingelstads solution worked for me. Check out his link: wiki.thingelstad.com/Main/VimeoEmbedDebugging
Find the first piece of code, the 'object tag' he identifies as being a problem for IE. Modify it so that it looks like the next line of code in his post.

Thanks Jamie.

I am getting the following error in IE6 - BTW where do i go to edit the HTML for the factory pages that Vimeo gives you? I simply uploaded a video and sometimes it works in IE and sometimes it does not. I have the error here and I will put a link to the video. If I come back in like 2 hours it will work - maybe for a day or so then all the sudden it does not. When it does not work in IE - I go to FF and it works fine.
Here is the error:

Line: 266
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
Code:0
URL: vimeo.com/1623090

In IE 7 I get an extra message saying “moogaloop” is undefined

I saw some fix in this thread to add additional data but where do I do that for my video I simply posted here?
Again all I did was upload write a few comments then saved it. No other tweaks or changes made.
Ok I have tested this on IE 6 and 7 with Vista, XP Pro as the OS
I had to get on Firefox to even post a message no matter what machine I use out of 3 PCs.
I think there must be something on vimeo that cycles through or cleans up then I can see if I wait a few hours.

Let me also add that I can not view any videos anywhere on vimeo when this happens. No matter who put it up there and what format it is. Thats why I am leaning towards something the server is trying to dish up across all videos.

thanks for any help on this.

Everything´s been working fine for months...

until I uploaded my last video 10 hours ago.

Now, Internet Explorer won´t show any videos.
(Ready with errors)

I´ve already installed IE´s lasta version, still won´t work.

Thanks for any help on this.

P.S. Windows XP.

Currently can't play any videos in IE7. Just a blank white box/placeholder where the video should be. I think this occurred on or around the time I uploaded a video. I too had to use FF to post this comment.

i just tried playing a vimeo video on IE7, XP SP3 and it worked. I embedded the video using FF3. No problems at all. just a heads up, vimeo works on google chrome too.

Have the same problem today (can't see any video on vimeo.com in my IE7)
Even can't post comments in IE7 (posting this using FF)
Happens after WinXP SP3 upgrade tonight.
Help pls!!! Lot of people have same bug!!!

IT WORKS TRUST ME!!
Ok here is the fix in detail! I've created a picture

Click Link:
i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/tonyworship/codespace.jpg
or
tinyurl.com/6gvvzo

make the change in your website where you are embeding - upload the change to your FTP and whallla

CODE is funny, if you even have "one"little space off, it wont work.

alrights, will try that fix tony. thx for the share.

I think the point has been missed. Videos within IE and overall page function such as posting comments to this blog ect are not working --ON VIMEO-- Im using Chrome to post this comment. In IE I had major problems though and cannot view or get anything to work properly on Vimeo. This is verified on the 5 systems that we have in our house and two more at our office. Chrome and Firefox work fine. Have not tested anything other browsers.

The IE bug has been destroyed. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.

yep it does. thanks for the quick fix casey.

What was the solution to this? I'm getting this white box problem in IE7 right now! billhartdistrict.org

Odd, its working now. Thanks anyway

i am also having the problem where the videos appear (in IE only) as white boxes (when embedded). However, it is also ONLY an issue with more recent videos of mine. Older embedded videos work fine.
anything?

I really need to get my videos on internet explorer but I cant.

My website is jeffreyivy.com

It is a portfolio website, so I really need it to work.

Please help

Hi

Had problems with wordpress videos etc - but I've just taken out the Object tags and it works fine!

Hi,

I'm running into the same problem. I originally had Dreamweaver insert some javascript (it told me to!), which I then removed after reading some comments here. I also tried removing the object tags, but that doesn't seem to help either.

buildingamoderncampus.com
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Stefan

I am running into the same problem. I tested in on Safari, Opera, FF and IE. IE is displaying a white box and small red 'x' where the video should be. I had some others test it from their home PC's and they got the same result.

The site is ryanspeaks.com and there is the same video on all pages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all,

Have a problem on IE 7 .. it works on firefox but video isn't working in Internet Explorer. I have been trying to find information for hours now..

The page is here : lecocqcyril.com/
You'll have an error message with IE

Help would be appreciated. Thank u :)

Having same problem as everyone else.
eaglepointe.org/eaglepointe/guest/about.html

videos not playing in IE ...works fine in every other browser

thanks for the help!

Does someone can help us ? in fact seems we could do a windows onload. My research : blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx

I'm not developer so if someone could help us ;)

I have the same problem. Embedded videos can't be viewed in Internet Explorer. Fine on all other browsers.

Any ideas?

It's more than a pain, it means that we can't use vimeo, except if we are on Vimeo.com. It means that I can't embed my vimeo video on my site to encourge viewers to look at more of my vimeo videos. As much as I'm loth to do this I might have to go back to youtube if there isn't a solution.

Vimeo seems so smart, they MUST have tested their embed on all the most popular browsers. They MUST know it will make people leave if it doesn't work. We MUST be missing something. I just wonder what it is?

No admin ?

The "white video box" seems to be a problem bigger than Vimeo.

At least when it affects ALL Flash video, not just the embedded Moogaloop.

No Flash videos at all are showing with IE7 and IE8 (Vista-32). This is on vimeo.com, YouTube etc..
Firefox, Safari are fine.

Can't figure out what's wrong, but it could be a security problem with Flash player and IE. Maybe a 3rd party program is interfering or my PC has Spyware that remains undetected.

Can you guys download files without issues?
Another bad IE symptom is the message "IE can't download... etc... The requested site is either unavailable or can't be found".

FYI, after a lot of extreme frustration figuring out why embeds would not play on IE but would on Firefox, I found I missed a "/" on my closing tag. I added it and IE started working. Check your code. Hopefully it will be as simple as this.

I cannot even open Vimeo in IE to browse, have to use Firefox. It's like either Internet Explorer or Vimeo disallow it purposely.

From the looks of the thread, it doesn't seem this issue has been resolved yet.

I am seeing my embeds in FireFox, but not in IE versions 6.0 & 7.0.

However, I AM seeing the embeds in IE that some other users have posted above:

THESE WORK IN IE: eaglepointe.org/eaglepointe/guest/about.html

buildingamoderncampus.com

THIS DOES NOT WORK IN IE: camerashymedia.com/newsite/

The ONLY differences in the embed code between theirs and mine are video dimensions, colors, and video IDs.

So what am I missing?

Would it matter WHERE the web page is being hosted, even though the Vimeo code all comes from the same place?

Thanks for any insight!

Hmn. Seems this has been an issue for over a year now.

I am having the same problem. I am viewing my website (lettersoflove.net) in IE 7 and the Vimeo embedded video shows up as if it were an image that doesn't exist (ie, transparent box with red X in the upper left corner). I am using WordPress as my site's CMS, but the video is not embedded in a WP page; it's embedded on the site's WP index.php.

I can see my video in Firefox, Safari, and Opera. I have tried removing the embed tags. I've tried just refreshing.

I went with Vimeo because other video uploading sites have too much down time and other issues. Most users on the web still use IE, so this should be fixed.

I cannot believe this is an issue ... Didn't even know it existed until people started asking why they couldn't see my videos.

Shocking that after a YEAR no one has fixed this bug.

As a new Plus member and a long-time advocate of Vimeo, this is really crap.

Is this a Vimeo Fail? Hmmm

Common, do something about it.
~G~

Thanks for the reply.

Ok, I get it. You're right. Lots of issues but not all the same. Fair enough. :-)

I've uploaded a bunch of videos in the past week or so, and none of them play on IE/Vista. Not on Vimeo. Not as an embed. Nothing. ... Or, at least I cannot see them in IE from this machine and I don't have a second machine running Vista from which I can check it.

To clarify: I can see the video player. The bar loads. The custom image is there. But nothing happens. They don't play.

Examples:
vimeo.com/3669361
vimeo.com/3573580
vimeo.com/3567433

Please help.

Thanks,
~G~

Antivirus? Really? Well, yes, I use one. Sophos. Popup blocker is disabled. Why would an antivirus program or a popup blocker stop videos from playing? Can you explain?

I can play videos from plenty of other places/sites/player. So I have touble understanding why the issue is with my machine. Maybe you can help me understand?

Thanks and lemme know any info you need.

~G~

I'm seeing the same problem. Bar loads with the custom image, but the movie won't play.....

Hope you all had a nice weekend.

Any news on this issue?

Thanks!

Another week ... Still no fix and no word. As a Pro (paying member of Vimeo) I find this most upsetting. Given HD on YouTube, you have to start asking yourself .............

Common, please. A bit of help here.

I didn't think I was the only one given some of the other feedback. I'll have access to a few other machines when I'm back at work and will try there ....