Video file not appearing in Firefox?

[EdwardMartinIII]

I should be smarter than this. Really, I should.

I have been unable to see an embedded video when using Firefox. My code should be really barebones, but it just isn't happening.

The test URL is

http://www.protomat.com/S62_Site_Dev/PM_Specifications_08.html

and if you go there using IE, you'll probably see a short bit of lovely video. What happens when you go there in Firefox? Have I done something wrong with the object code?

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"><param name="FileName" value="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" /></object>

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Add this inbetween your opening and closing object tags:

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"[/URL] src="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" showcontrols="1" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="1" width="320" height="285"></embed>

Hope this helps,
Dan

[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

I mention the filename twice?

Do you mean

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"[/URL] src="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" showcontrols="1" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="1" width="320" height="285"></embed>
<param name="FileName" value="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" />
</object>

I understand EMBED has ben deprecated in favor of OBJECT.

Cheers,


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Oh, like this example:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20041119/#embed

The EMBED tag is used for backward compatibility.

Cheers,

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Yes. That's what I mean. The object and param elements are for IE, the embed element for FF.

object and embed elements are not something that I'm immediately familiar with the current standards for - I just found the answer on Google ;o)

Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

I ended up using

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
  <param name="FileName" value="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" />
  <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"[/URL] src="Video/PM_ToolCollet_Video.wmv" showcontrols="1" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="1" width="320" height="285">
  </embed>
</object>

I am amused at the difference in viewing the video such that I have to specify a height of 285 when the original file (as I understand it) is 240 high.

But it looks great.

Thanks!


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door