Problem viewing embedded youtube videos on web-sites other than youtube.com

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

I am not sure if this is a video or a browser question. So, if I am in the wrong help site, forgive me.

I have no trouble viewing YouTube videos on youtube.com, or viewing other videos on their websites.

When I try to view an embeded video, I get the folowing:

• A black area when the video is supposed to play with the Apple Quick Time logo in the middle.
• After a few seconds, the black area becomes white and the Logo is repalced by one of a torn movie strip with the Quick Time Logo.

I have tried turning off the firewall and setting my brower at "accept everthing"

What might be the problem? My Windows 98?

Don't I have the correct add-on, application, slow internet, or the wrong browser (IE6)?

Or can the problem be on the other end?

Any help would be greatful

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

I think QT also tries to do Flash (SWF, at least. The last version that worked with Win98 is probably too old for someone to have added the FLV filetype).

Go into the Quicktime Control Panel applet, and look for the MIME settings and filetype extension settings, then uncheck any instances of 'Flash,' if they're there. Then, uninstall and reinstall Flash, if necessary (only if the browsers don't pick up Flash
properly after disabling Flash support in Quicktime).