lighttpd forum lighty > Problems playing flash videos in IE

I am seeing a recurring error in internet explorer (Ie 6 and 7 i have
tested).
You can recreate the error on redtube.com or my site (youjizz).  To
recreate the error:  leave www.redtube.com open and click one of the
videos...scrub the video a bit (ie, fast forward in the clip to another
point in the video), close that browser.  Open another video and repeat
the scrubbing, close that window.  Eventually (usually after 3 windows
in my case, sometimes it takes many more but it happens EVERY time,
eventually....) the player will completely stop working.  I am able to
recreate this error on ANY PC running IE 6 and 7 (haven't tried other IE
versions), regardless of what operating system is used.  This error
does NOT occur in
firefox, ONLY IE.

I tried this 'fix' : http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/72358  but it did
NOT work

Once the player freezes up in IE...it does not matter how long you wait,
it will not restart NOR will a new player page (if opened from the same
window as the original player page that froze) work.  You actually have
to start a new IE browser ( from the task bar, or start > programs > IE
) and reload the page and the video will work, until a subsequent video
/ videos freeze up (and it will).  Rinse and repeat.  Huge headache if
you want to surf in IE, makes it nearly impossible.  Youtube is the only
site i have seen that seems to have solved this issue.  Anyone have any
ideas?  I am completely stumped, i've even tried multiple flash
players...it seems that it's a problem with lighttpd?  Is there a way to 
stream flv video with apache or ngnix?

anybody got a fix for this? :(

John Vroom wrote:
> anybody got a fix for this? :(

i've got exactly the same problem with lighty!! and only in IE 6 and 7! 
Firefox is blazing fast... every .flv in IE freezes in the beginning..

i've not yet tried the  http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/7235 fix!

Are you sure that you're sending correct headers?
I loaded up an IE session sniffer (Fiddler2) and saw that Youtube is 
transmitting with "Content-Type: video/flv", which is what that other 
thread mentioned.

I wouldn't be able to visit your site at work ;) so I wouldn't be able 
to crosscheck, but you may want to verify that you are indeed sending 
the correct Content-Type..

I'll try later this evening if you haven't responded by now, in exchange 
for filming some content for your site :P jk.

Let us know what you've found out, if you have a chance to use Fiddler.

John Vroom wrote:

> I tried this 'fix' : http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/72358  but it did
> NOT work

Make sure you place the fix above your existing mime-type definitions. 
I'm not completely familiar with lighttpd and stumbled with this 
initially.

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