[thelist] embed wmv movies firefox

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

For what it's worth... where you use the "URL" parameter, I have a parameter called "filename".

 From: "Jeroen Wijers" info at internetvraagbaak.nl

> Jeroen Wijers wrote:
>
>> I have this on my website: www.chatbots.biz/English/index.htm
>> But it won;t play in firefox..on win xp.
>> On the other pages it does not even display a player screen.... so i 
>> "solved" that...
>> But now what i wrong?
>>  >> classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
>> height="260"
>> width="320">
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >> pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
>> id="MyWMPLayer"
>> name="www.aiml.nl/English/english_wmv/welcome.wmv"
>> width="320"
>> height="260"
>> autostart="true">
>>  
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> I've no way of checking, but why not try this:
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Some kind of alternate content.
> 

I tried this

But with no result really. the movie screen will show on both Ie en Firefox 
but not play in one of them.
Tried it too with the extra embed tags but with no luck...

>
> The reasoning behind this is the same as the Flash Satay[1] article. COM
> CLSIDs are Windows-specific: even when Firefox's running on Windows, it
> doesn't necessarily know about these. However, MIME types (the
> "video/x-ms-wmv" above) are supposed to be internet standards (although
> the one above isn't, hence the "x-"), and ought to be recognised
> everywhere where there's a player or viewer for that type.
>
> K.
>
> [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
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