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I'm here specifically because I got so tired of all the "pop culture" and "hot topics" bullshit that surrounds games now-a-days. I appreciated the fact this website was about a group of guys hanging out, playing games, and not bothering with all the drama. So long as they keep with that they will keep my subscription.

So I've looked further into it. And by further I mean I refreshed firefox, found the video worked (after installing all my default add-ons), and then went through my firefox profile folder file by file figuring out where things broke.

Turns out the issue has to do with cookies and/or the sessionstore.js file in your firefox profiles folder (they accomplish around the same purpose). You can try deleting all your cookies and then going back to the page and see if that fixes it. If not, go to your profile folder (Can be accessed by going clicking: firefox menu -> (?) -> Troubleshooting Information and then click on the "Show Folder" button next to Profile folder) and from there just delete the 'sessionstore.js' file and the folder called 'sessionstore-backups'. That should do it, if not "Refreshing Firefox" might do the trick for you like it did for me.

Sadly, I have no advice for you gravytrain.

So why can the html5 player not work in firefox? Firefox now supports it through OpenH264 and I can run video's from literally everywhere else just fine except here on giantbomb. Which is a shame since I can get video's working here just fine if I edit the html. Just messing around with the following and...

<div id="js-vid-html5-player20641386">

<video id="uvpHi5" width="100%" height="100%" poster="/bundles/phoenixsite/images/core/loose/clear.gif">

<source src="http://vidtech.cbsinteractive.com/h5/blanks/uvp_blank.mp4"></source>

</video>

</div>

So basically after I hit play the source just goes to this blank looping video. Furthermore, I can replace the src to a proper video (i.e. http://v.giantbomb.com/2015/07/31/vf_tembothebadasselephant_ql_07312015_4000.mp4) and it will still not work for me. BUT if I remove the poster from the video line I can then see the video, show controls and play the video just fine (I assume the poster is just an overlay on top of the video?).

I would also like to note that it seems even w/o a premium subscription I can still find the links to the videos in the html and play them just fine???

So I've investigated a little further and it seems the issue might be around this part of the html:

<div id="js-vid-html5-player20641386">

<video id="uvpHi5" width="100%" height="100%" poster="/bundles/phoenixsite/images/core/loose/clear.gif">

<source src="http://vidtech.cbsinteractive.com/h5/blanks/uvp_blank.mp4"></source>

</video>

</div>

</div>

So basically after I hit play the source just goes to this blank looping video. Furthermore, I can replace the src to a proper video (i.e. http://v.giantbomb.com/2015/07/31/vf_tembothebadasselephant_ql_07312015_4000.mp4) and it will still not work for me. BUT if I remove the poster from the video line I can then see the video, show controls and play the video just fine. So it seems mozilla works just fine with html5 and your videos, granted the player is given the right video to play.

edit: I should also note that the pause/play, and quality buttons don't work after I do this (quality turns to the "can't select right now" image).

So I've read that the giantbomb videos have an issue with firefox and h264 codecs with html5 or something of the like; but I was wondering if any of you had a work around to get the videos working on giantbomb in firefox with html5.