We are using WMV videos on an internal site, and we are embedding them into web sites. This works quite well on Internet Explorer, but not on Firefox. I've found ways to make it work in Firefox, but then it stops working in Internet Explorer.
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We do not want to use Silverlight just yet, especially since we cannot be sure that all clients will be running Windows XP with Windows Media Player installed.
Is there some sort of Universal Code that embeds WMP into both Internet Explorer and Firefox, or do we need to implement some user-agent-detection and deliver different HTML for different browsers?
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This thing is driving me crazy. I have Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 installed. I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it. But when I trey to play in streaming something like a Web Radio, in WMA, I see 'Missing Plugin' on the page. How To Install Windows Media Player Plugin on Chrome. There will be a yellow bar appear under the address asked for installing the WMP plugin. Click 'install plugin'. Drag this file to.
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I'm not too familiar with where Windows stores Internet Plugins but the plugin installer you ran earlier should have placed a 'np-mswmp.dll' file somewhere. Have a search on your hard drive for it and assuming you find it, move it to this folder: C: Program Files Safari Plugins Quit Safari if it's running and relaunch it to pick up the plugin. Jul 15, 2006 Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the.
Feb 01, 2011 Chrome using 'mplayer2.exe' (legacy windows media player 6.4.09.1130) instead of WMP11 (most current release). This site loads the correct plugin on IE, Firefox and Chrome on a different PC. Why is Chrome (specific to this PC) loading the legacy plugin for Windows Media files? Application/asx. Yes video/x-ms-asf-plugin. Yes application. Windows Media Player plugin Showing 1-35 of 35 messages. So the new 36 Beta update doesn't let me use extensions that are not loaded from the Chrome Web Store.
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The following works for me in Firefox and Internet Explorer:
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GrantGrant
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May I suggest the jQuery Media Plugin? Provides embed code for all kinds of video, not just WMV and does browser detection, keeping all that messy switch/case statements out of your templates.
Jake McGrawJake McGraw
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Use the following. It works in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
And in JavaScript,
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Elizabeth Castro has an interesting article on this problem: Bye Bye Embed. Worth a read on how she attacked this problem, as well as handling QuickTime content.
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You could use conditional comments to get IE and Firefox to do different things
The browsers themselves will ignore code that isn't meant for them to read.
GrantGrant
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EDIT - March 20 2013. Interesting how these old questions resurface from time to time! How different the world is today and how dated this all seems. I would not recommend a Flash only route today by any means - best practice these days would probably be to use HTML 5 to embed H264 encoded video, with a Flash fallback as described here: http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html
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Encoding flash video is actually very easy with ffmpeg. You can use one command to convert from just about any video format, ffmpeg is smart enough to figure the rest out, and it'll use every processor on your machine. Invoking it is easy:
ffmpeg will guess at the bitrate you want, but if you'd like to specify one, you can use the -b option, so
-b 500000 is 500kbps for example. There's a ton of options of course, but I generally get good results without much tinkering. This is a good place to start if you're looking for more options: video options.
You don't need a special web server to show flash video. I've done just fine by simply pushing .flv files up to a standard web server, and linking to them with a good swf player, like flowplayer.
WMVs are fine if you can be sure that all of your users will always use [a recent, up to date version of] Windows only, but even then, Flash is often a better fit for the web. The player is even extremely skinnable and can be controlled with javascript.
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I found a good article about using the WMP with Firefox on MSDN.
Wii backup manager pour mac. Based on MSDN's article and after doing some trials and errors, I found using JavaScript is better than using conditional comments or nested 'EMBED/OBJECT' tags.
I made a JS function that generate WMP object based on given arguments:
Then I used that function by writing some markups and inline JS like these:
You can use jQuery.ready instead of window load event to making the codes more backward-compatible and cross-browser.
I tested the codes over IE 9-10, Chrome 27, Firefox 21, Opera 12 and Safari 5, on Windows 7/8.
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I have found something that Actually works in both FireFox and IE, on Elizabeth Castro's site (thanks to the link on this site) - I have tried all other versions here, but could not make them work in both the browsers
Check her site out: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed/ and the version with the classid in the initial object tag
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