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re: Video card anyone?

graphics card repair — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:58:05 GMT

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re: WMP FireFox Plug-in at 6.1M Downloads

bwm09 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:48:20 GMT

hi, i'm new to creating websites. i can't get html parameters to work with firefox for WMV files. specifically, i want the control bar to go away! showcontrols will not work. iumode=none does not work (maybe i'm using it wrong). autostart works fine. how do i get rid of the control bar? your help is much appreciated!!

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

nicejack79 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:33:35 GMT

Please find the code

wmpPlayStateChange(newState);

// This function will run every time the Play State changes in Windows Media Player

function wmpPlayStateChange(newState) {

// alert the play state value in plain text for convenience

//alert ( playstateValues[newState] );

var WMP9=new Object();

WMP9=document.getElementById("contentPlayer");

boxtest = document.getElementById("testBox");

boxtest.value = boxtest.value + WMP9.playstate;

if ( WMP9.playstate == 8 )

{

if(xmlHttp){

xmlHttp.abort();

}

//alert( "inside setFlashvar_WMP_status");

var xmlHttp = GetXmlHttpObject();

index = document.getElementById("hidden").value;

var url = "http://localhost:8080/Need4All/servlet/PlayList";

url = url + "?pickMethod=NU&asxFileName=sample.asx&index=" + index +"&time="+encodeURIComponent((new Date()).getTime());

//alert(url);

xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function ()

{

if (xmlHttp.readyState==4)

{

if (xmlHttp.status==200)

{

var response = xmlHttp.responseText;

document.getElementById("debug1").value = response;

var index = response.substring( 0 , response.indexOf("|]"));

//alert(index);

var url = response.substring( response.indexOf("|]") + 2);

//alert(url);

if ( url.indexOf(".wmv") == -1){

alert("does not contain wmv file");

}

//var WMP9=new Object();

//WMP9=document.getElementById("contentPlayer");

if (url != null)

{

WMP9.URL = url;

document.getElementById("hidden").value = index;

WMP9.controls.play();

}

//alert(WMP9.URL);

}

xmlHttp.send(null);

}

function OnDSPlayStateChangeEvt(NewState)

{

alert("inside state change event");

}

</script>

Unable to send playstatechangeevent in fir3efox. Please help.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

errand — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:54:48 GMT

Hey Paul,

Could you send me an email and I can help walk you through the issue you are hitting? Specifically if you have a short piece of sample code that you could send.

Thanks,

Eric

Doesnt work on Firefox!

PaulMolloy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:15:05 GMT

I don't know if this blog is still active, but I'm trying to use your plug-in and I've got problems.

I've been through the documentation here;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb614511(VS.85).aspx

but most of the parameters are ignored by firefox.

There is also no response to any attempts to manipulate it by javascript (e.g. stop and play functions).

Has something changed since the plugins release? or is there a separate list of firefox parameters?

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Rick75230 — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:23:52 GMT

I *FINALLY* got it. This page explains the details, including sample code. It is not a bug. The various video pages on the site use this techique.

www.messianicworship.com/html/faq-firefox_resize.html

Rick Reinckens

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Rick75230 — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:44:00 GMT

This does work with FireFox. However, with WinXP and WMP 10 MSIE does not recognize the application/x-ms-wmp MIME type and shows the "image missing" indicator.

You can nest the OBJECT tags and use type="application/x-ms-wmp" for one OBJECT tag and "video/x-ms-wmv" for the other. FireFox will ignore the "video" tag and work correctly. IE, of course, will show the "image missing" tag for one and then show the video for the other.

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Xbox Media Center ported to Macs

Xbox Media Center ported to Macs — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:39:46 GMT

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re: Building a playback app (DShow vs. MF vs. OCX)

errand — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:01:28 GMT

Hey Anshul,

You can use the WMP OCX object in a windowless mode that could help you do this. Depending on how much control you want to overlay graphics or other things, you may have to write your own custom EVR presenter - but for simple cases of just media playback, look at windowless mode first. There is documentation on msdn for this.

Eric