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trying to embed video by mime type tn 07-27-2008
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Posted by tn on July 27, 2008, 8:46 am
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Hi,

I have a test page at
http://maroc.tribalnetworks.org/testmov.html

I am trying to find a way to embed the video as simply as possible
without specifying WMP or QuickTime player (or any particular plug-
in). When I used "video/quicktime", of course it called the quicktime
player, so I changed it to "video/mpeg" but this didn't seem to work
in explorer. I tried first with the quicktime plug-in, and that
worked, but when I left it with just the WMP plug-in, it didn't work,
even though WMP claims to support mpeg and h264. It didn't even show
the alt text link as it should according to spec.

Does anyone know a way to make this work without using javascript and so on?

thanks

Andy


Posted by dorayme on July 27, 2008, 7:20 pm
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In article

> Hi,
>
> I have a test page at
> http://maroc.tribalnetworks.org/testmov.html
>
> I am trying to find a way to embed the video as simply as possible
> without specifying WMP or QuickTime player (or any particular plug-
> in). When I used "video/quicktime", of course it called the quicktime
> player, so I changed it to "video/mpeg" but this didn't seem to work
> in explorer. I tried first with the quicktime plug-in, and that
> worked, but when I left it with just the WMP plug-in, it didn't work,
> even though WMP claims to support mpeg and h264. It didn't even show
> the alt text link as it should according to spec.
>
> Does anyone know a way to make this work without using javascript and so on?
>

On your page you say: "This should work, and if it doesn't a text link
should appear... theoretically at least. It doesn't in firefox3 on mac.
Does in Safari."

What doesn't in FF3? The movie or the text link?

On my Mac, on Safari, FF2 and Opera and iCab, the movie appears fine and
embedded. You need the expertise of cwdjrxyz, he is a subscriber. You
might google his posts up and they may help you.

--
dorayme

Posted by nospamatall on July 27, 2008, 8:12 pm
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dorayme wrote:
> In article
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a test page at
>> http://maroc.tribalnetworks.org/testmov.html
>>
>> I am trying to find a way to embed the video as simply as possible
>> without specifying WMP or QuickTime player (or any particular plug-
>> in). When I used "video/quicktime", of course it called the quicktime
>> player, so I changed it to "video/mpeg" but this didn't seem to work
>> in explorer. I tried first with the quicktime plug-in, and that
>> worked, but when I left it with just the WMP plug-in, it didn't work,
>> even though WMP claims to support mpeg and h264. It didn't even show
>> the alt text link as it should according to spec.
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to make this work without using javascript and so on?
>>
>
> On your page you say: "This should work, and if it doesn't a text link
> should appear... theoretically at least. It doesn't in firefox3 on mac.
> Does in Safari."
>
> What doesn't in FF3? The movie or the text link?

Sorry, the alt text link didn't show when I disabled the plug-ins. That
was on a mac. I'll change the text there, it's a bit ambiguous.

> On my Mac, on Safari, FF2 and Opera and iCab, the movie appears fine and
> embedded. You need the expertise of cwdjrxyz, he is a subscriber. You
> might google his posts up and they may help you.

Will do that, thanks. Not going to be many false results on that one!

Andy

Posted by dorayme on July 28, 2008, 1:23 am
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> > What doesn't in FF3? The movie or the text link?
>
> Sorry, the alt text link didn't show when I disabled the plug-ins. That
> was on a mac. I'll change the text there, it's a bit ambiguous.
>

It is hard to make sense of the exact behaviour of alt text over
browsers, ditto alternative text in the object element:

<http://dorayme.890m.com/alt/objectAndAlternativeText.html>

--
dorayme

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