[thelist] embed wmv movies firefox

Jeroen Wijers info at internetvraagbaak.nl
Wed Apr 27 07:46:43 CDT 2005



> 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?
>>  <object id="MyWMPlayer"
>>                  classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
>>                  height="260"
>>                  width="320">
>>          <param name="uiMode" value="full" />
>>          <param name="autoStart" value="true" />
>>          <param name="URL" value="english_wmv/welcome.wmv" />
>>    <embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
>> pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
>> id="MyWMPLayer"
>> name="www.aiml.nl/English/english_wmv/welcome.wmv"
>> width="320"
>> height="260"
>> autostart="true">
>> </embed>         </object>
>
> I've no way of checking, but why not try this:
>
> <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" id="MyWMPPlayer" width="320" height="260">
>     <param name="uiMode" value="full" />
>     <param name="autoStart" value="true" />
>     <param name="URL" value="english_wmv/welcome.wmv" />
>
>     <p>Some kind of alternate content.</p>
> </object>

I tried this
   <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" id="MyWMPPlayer" width="320" height="260">
                  <param name="uiMode" value="full" />
          <param name="autoStart" value="true" />
          <param name="URL" value="english_wmv/welcome.wmv" />
  </object>

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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