#1 2006-08-07 02:32:47
netscape doesn't load wmv file
When my site view in IE the link to the video in the pop-up works fine, i netscape it just shows you a bunch of jiberish. any suggestions.
I have the page onLoad on an image in the menus which is in a javascript comand, does this have anything to do with it? I'm a newbie at best and just started doing this site so any help is greatly appreciated. 
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#2 2006-08-08 02:25:00
Re: netscape doesn't load wmv file
Not true at all. Doesn't work for me in IE and may not work for others either. Why? Because you are merely linking to the WMV file itself and that causes the movie to either not play at all, play in whatever local media player is designated to play that file-type on the end-user's system, or "possibly" play within a browser window (no guarantees).
Instead of using what you have now, use Windows Media Player object and embed controls (for cross-browser compatability), to allow the video to play and work perfectly in all major browsers (eg: MSIE, Netscape/Mozilla, and Opera browsers). I use this technique at my Wacky Videos page at my site.
First thing you do is create a new page with this content...
Code::
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>play</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
padding-top:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-left:0;
padding-right:0;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:0;
background-color: #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<object id="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/ en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256">
<param name="fileName" value="http://yourdomain.com/play.wmv">
<param name="animationatStart" value="true">
<param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
<param name="autoStart" value="true">
<param name="showControls" value="true">
<param name="Volume" value="-20">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="http://yourdomain.com/play.wmv" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-20>
</object>
</body>
</html>Name the above new page to play.htm.
Next, you need to change/modify a line within your page where from youn want to load.
Code::
<a href="http://yourdomain.com/play.htm" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out');" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','Jackpoppic_r2_c2','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f2.jpg','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f4.jpg',1);" onClick="window.open(this.href,'play','top=50,left=50,width=280,height=257,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no');return false;">Offline
#3 2007-04-17 02:37:27
Re: netscape doesn't load wmv file
Code::
<a href="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.htm" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out');" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','Jackpoppic_r2_c2','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f2 .jpg','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f4.jpg',1);" onClick="window.open(this.href,'JMFINAL','top=50,left=50,width=280,hei ght=257,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no');return false;">You can try this instead.
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