Why do the Learn NI Labview Basic Tutorial Videos not work?

[RavensFan]

The video linked to in message 3 works just fine for me.

[chall]

The videos at http://www.ni.com/diadem/what_is.htm#visualization do not work for me.  The problems match the author's description, I would think there would be some kind of work around.  It would be nice if these videos were put on youtube so that they would be more accessible.

[chall]

Also the video linked in post 3 does not work for me.  The screen darkens, no video shows.  I've tried Firefox, IE8 (64 bit and 32 bit), and Google Chrome. 

[RavensFan]

Your other link works for me also.  Do you have Flash installed?  Right clicking on the thumbnail video brings up a shortcut menu that has "About Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.233 ..." on it.

[chall]

I do have Flash Player installed.  Right clicking on the video gives me "About Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.235"

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't have any problems either. I would suggest talking to your IT department to see if there is something that they are not allowing.

[AKA_TG]

IF there is a fix I have not seen it yet.

I too have no access to the videos from any machine I use at work.

Obviously certain streaming ports are blocked by my IT department for security reasons.

[Ian-S]

I am an I.T. systems support tech at a company in Iowa. I am not having an issue with the NI Labview but I am getting these exact same symptoms on the NI Veristand videos. I have tried IE x32, x64, Opera, Chrome, Firefox, on Windows 7, Ubuntu, and Windows XP machines, all have given the same result.

I have full administrator rights on these computers, I have tried numerous versions of flash on the machines but they all give the same result. 

There is something I believe going on with the script on how these videos pull down.

The FLV videos are apparently pulled dynamically from this JS file - http://www.ni.com/javascript/multimedia/flvplayer.js

We have a Watch Guard firewall implace that I think may be blocking this file while the browser loads the page, on the firewall I have opened port 1935 to my machine but it made no difference.

Trying the videos on an external machine off of our domain they work just fine.

I called out to NI support to see if there was any way to get them uploaded to Youtube, they said they would see if that's possible if not they would attempt to get me downloads for the videos.

Hmph.

[Ian-S]

Update: We added a broader area of effect for port 1935 on our Watch guard firewall and it allowed for the videos to play successfully instead of the blank white box or non loading player.

The policy was for Any source host to Any destination host access to TCP: 1935 and UDP: 1935.

It had nothing at all to do with flash as other flash videos were fine.