Embedded Windows Media player not launching for Macisers

#1

I have embedded a Windows Media Player on a web page to stream live radio. It
works fine for PC users, but MAC users complain that they cannot use it. It
tells them the plug-in is not supported even though they actually have the
player, then it says the host is unreachable. If they type the streaming
address into the player everything works fine. The player at one time
automatically launched for Mac users, but no more. I believe it's a flaw with
my code, but I don't know what's wrong. Here is the code:


<OBJECT CLASS="invisible" ID="mediaPlayer"
CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"

CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab
#Version=6,4,7,1112"
STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="mms://66.134.90.174:8080">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="showDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="showStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="AutoSize" VALUE="0">


<EMBED CLASS="invisible" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage =
"http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="mms://66.134.90.174:8080" name="MediaPlayer1" width=0 height=0
AutoStart=true>
</EMBED>


</OBJECT>


If you click on the radio from a mac you'll see what I mean:
http://www.kpoo.com/gallery.html?http://www.kpoo.com/stream.html

I'm in the process of revamping the site, so I'd like to unveil a fully
functioning stream. What do I do?


<OBJECT CLASS="invisible" ID="mediaPlayer"
CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"

CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab
#Version=6,4,7,1112"
STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="mms://66.134.90.174:8080">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="showDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="showStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="AutoSize" VALUE="0">


<EMBED CLASS="invisible" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage =
"http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
SRC="mms://66.134.90.174:8080" name="MediaPlayer1" width=0 height=0
AutoStart=true>
</EMBED>


</OBJECT>

#2

Is this the holy grail of embedding?

#3

I embed exactly the way you do and mine works fine in all OS/browsers. The only
thing I noticed different was that I had two additional versions added to my
codebase. Try adding 5, 715 to your exisiting:

CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#
Version=6,4,7,1112"

Not sure if that will work, but it's worth a shot. After that, I'm all out of
ideas, sorry.

Shane H

#4

Sadly this did not work, but I'm interested to understand what it's supposed to do since I don't know what the Codebase is.

#5

I had the opposite problem - making my Mac files work on Windows. I saved the
sound as an mp3 and linked to it. I didn't embed the player. That way, whatever
player the viewer has will play the sound. I type too slow to go through all
the steps, but DW generates this code in the <head> </head>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>

The text links for Mac and Windows look like this, depending on your file
folder name and sound file name.

1a. <a href="anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3" onclick="MM_checkPlugin('QuickTime
Plug-In','anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3','anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3',false);return
document.MM_returnValue">Anubia Text Link Here / QuickTime Plug-In</a><br />
1b. <a href="anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3" onclick="MM_checkPlugin('Windows Media
Player','anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3','anubiasongs/sound_1.mp3',false);return
document.MM_returnValue">Anubia Text Link Here / Windows Media Player</a><br />

#6

Since it's a live broadcast and we're streaming in real time this solution is
not an option, but I'll keep that code around for for future use.

I still don't know why it stopped working on the mac platform. What am I
missing?

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