Re: .wmv and .asf files not found by WMP 11

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:41:02 -0800, tcarp
<tcarp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


A good test would be to browse the HTML files locally, as in open the
main page by dragging the file into an open web browser window.

The page location should then start simlar to
file://C:/website/webpage.html

I hope I did the test right. I first copied the wmv file to my desktop
(perhaps an unnecessary step but it was easier to grab.) I then started FF.


I'm not sure the Desktop is an ideal place to start these files from,
I'm not sure what access zone that puts the browser in.


I dragged the wmv file to the FF window and, just like when I do the test
from within DW, WMP started but the screen was blank and the word "DONE" was
in the lower left of the window. Keep in mind that this result is different


If you were to right-click on the player, you should have a context
menu. If the words 'Error Details' are active (not greyed out) then
that error message would be a start.

However that's not an embedded player as such, so it may not be
present. I was rather intending you dragged the HTML page which
*contains* the embedding code into the browser window instead.


When I go back to the wmv file on the desktop and double click it, WMP fires
up and the file executes properly.

At that point you're not running it through the browse access controls
and loading the plugin, so I'm not sure it's a representative test.


It seems to me the problem lies somewhere in FF or the linkage between FF
and WMP.

Yup.

Also remember that at one time this all worked. The problem is that so much
time has past its not easy to point to any one change. Let me mention a
couple though.

I replaced WIN XP with WIN XP Pro. I've also kept up with new releases of
FF. The DW version I use is still the same and I don't think this has
anything to do with the problem.

Since you're also trying to make a point about path addressing (relative,
absolute) there is another change I don't see as relevant but.... I changed
the pathname to all my web sites on my local computer. The way that was done
was to simply change the main folder for all my sites from My Webs to !My
Webs. This was done so that the folder sorted to the top of the directory.
(Since doing that I've found another way I could have gone but I've gone
through all the changes that DW needed to map to the right paths and haven't
seen any problems). I can't imagine why FF and WMP would care but maybe
using an exclamation point in the path name has something confused.


Well unescaped exclamation marks are not valid in internet URLs so I'd
be surprised if they work (they might but I've not tested that
scenario)


When I get a little more time I want to go over the relative/absolute
adressing discussion in a little more detail. When I was first learning html
and web site design I remember trying to decipher the differences by reading
the WDG Reference. If I recall properly, I did some testing with relative
but found the results confusing.

There's really not a lot to do here. Just create a file with a real,
absolute file reference to the content (such as C:\media\video.wmv)
and have done with it - we're going around in circles here and it's
the only real test to find out if your HTML is broken or not.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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