Video not view-able

[Carmel]

I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content
was not view-able.

Example:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false 

There is a video there that displays perfectly in MS Windows in either
IE8 or 9 and Firefox. However, under FreeBSD-8.3 with the latest
version of Firefox all I get is a black box. No controls to click,
etcetera. This sort of thing happens way to frequently on way to many
sites. It cannot be a simple "blame Microsoft" thing since these sites
work under Firefox when used in MS Windows.

Does anyone have a possible solution?

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