Firefox and Windows Media Player 11

Sticks · #1 (**permalink**) 10-December-2006, 04:14 PM

Yesterday Windows Media player decided it wanted to go up to WMP 11

Now, in fire fox it will not play on the BBC News site

Also on wmv files I have put on the web embedded in html files, and on CD ROMS, the WMP height now has compressed up by one third making the video distorted

Has anyone else had this problem

Is there a fix in CSS or the embed function

This is an example of how I do the embed
Quote:

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embed src="filename.wmv" align="baseline" border="2" width="525" height="440" autostart="True" type="application/x-mplayer2"

I have also tried with the object tag and still no joy

I have Firefox 2.0

It has been suggested I go back to WMP10, but all that will happen is I will forever beasked to go back to WMP11

Is this the new way to make people use IE?

Blob · #2 (**permalink**) 10-December-2006, 05:07 PM

Hum,
its a bit hit and miss with FF2 & MP11

Code:

<OBJECT ID="playerNSF" width="350" height="270"
	classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
	codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902"
	standby="Loading Microsoft� Windows� Media Player components..." 
  type="application/x-oleobject">

  <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="http://www.youRURL.com/video/playlist.asp">
  <PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="false">
  <PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="false">
  <PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
  <PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
  <PARAM name="uiMode" value="mini">
	<PARAM name="playcount" value="9999">
	<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
	<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">

	<PARAM NAME="showStatusBar" VALUE="false">
	<PARAM name="volume" value="-2000">
	<param name="mute" value="1"> 
	<PARAM name="stretchToFit" value="true">
	
  <EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" 
	pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
	SRC="http://www.youRURL.com/video/playlist.asp"
	name="Try itunes"
	width="350"
	height="270"
	AutoStart="false" mute="1" volume="-2000">
  </EMBED>
	</OBJECT>

This is how i use it on my website

Code:

 <object classid="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=8,5,0,0" align="left" height="360" width="350">

                        <param name="src" value="http://MY WEBSITE/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/madonna/hungup/HungUp_lo.asx">
                        <embed src="http://MY WEBSITE/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/madonna/hungup/HungUp_lo.asx" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" align="left" height="360" width="350">
                      </object>

Sticks · #3 (**permalink**) 10-December-2006, 07:13 PM

Thanks for that, unfortunately one of the lines requiires the user to be online, and one of the things I do is produce CD-ROMS to run on people's machines, who may not be online.

I did try params with the height specified but that did not work.

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