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roatan
Joined: Jun 27, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Nov-13 12:10
Hello,
A client wants an MPEG Video on his web site; I made a simple html link to the file and it works, but brings up Real Player on my computer, which for some reason does not play the audio. The Windows Media player does. Is there a code I can use with the link that looks first for Windows Media on a person's computer before defaulting to some other program?
I've never done this before and know exactly nothing about these players!
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squirrel
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2004-Nov-13 16:09
roatan, its a mime type issue you are experiencing. If you right click on the movie after you download it and select open with, scroll down to windows media player and check the box to always use this program you'll be all set. The only way to really force a specific player to open a file type is to convert it to a format that the default mime type of that program exclusively plays or is set by default to play. MPEG will pretty much play in any player out there and is a good format to have cross platform. I'd look into the audio issues and try to resolve them for Real, leave it as an MPEG and let the users pick what they want to play it in.
Another option would be to play it in flash. The newest version supports it and the number of users having flash supported browsers is extremely high. Here's some info on it if you would like to explore this option [link] I have set this up for a couple clients on both big and small files and it works very well. You could download the trial and give it a shot.
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roatan
Joined: Jun 27, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Nov-13 17:58
Squirrel, thanks for this information. I have tried to FTP this gigantic MPEG file onto the web site 4 times and it keeps crashing/quitting/erroring/stopping at 1/3 to 1/2 way through. It looks as I may not be able to use it anyway.
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