Re: Unable to play .wax file using wm10 or wm11
- From: cellist <cellist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:49:00 -0800
Thanks cwd (may I call you "cwd"?) for your excellent information in both
this post and the earlier one. I'll take a look at the page you reference
regarding servers.
I noticed in re-reading the earlier one that, when you were successful in
downloading the streaming file in question, you were using Firefox. I'm using
IE when the error occurs. I'm wondering if it might be a browser
security-related issue blocking in my case.
Phil
"cwdjrxyz" wrote:
On Jan 11, 4:18 am, cwdjrxyz <spamtr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:.
On Jan 10, 7:44 pm, cellist <cell...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a follow-on to my question "C00D1197 Cannot Find the File wmp 11
Streaming..." of january 9.
I've now re-installed wm10 and I'm having the same problem I had with 11.
Sometimes the message is "cannot find the file" and sometimes it's "cannot
play the file". The page that is invoking WMP,http://streaming.osu.edu/WOSU-NPRnews-wm.htm
contains the following line,
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;
url=http://streaming.osu.edu/WOSU/leadin/wosu-am.wax";>
Is there something special that I have to do for .wax files? I've checked
and indeed that extension is associated with WMP. I've tried tweaking browser
security settings and have addedhttp://streaming.osu.eduasa trusted site.
I have no trouble playing from the htm url you give above ending
with .htm or the url ending in .wax given below that. I am using WMP
11 on a Windows XP sp3 OS and using the Firefox browser at the
moment. In either case, you can not view the source code by right
clicking since you are redirected to the video opening in WMP nearly
at once. You usually do not have to use a meta refresh when you use
a .wax redirector/playlist file, as the .wax file itself takes care of
the redirection to the .wma file.
I just wanted to add a little more for you to consider. Although
nearly all music was put on a streaming server in the last century, it
now is sufficient to use an ordinary html server in many cases. You
now usually really need a streaming server if you are broadcasting a
live stream where the listener can only get what is playing at the
time, or you have extremely high traffic, or you must be able to enter
a long piece of music at several points.Otherwise progressive download
streaming from an ordinary html server usually is sufficient.
See an example at my page at http://www.cwdjr.net/audio4/songmultipleDD.php
.. This allows a selection from many songs, each in 4 formats. Thus if
some players are not installed or not working properly, you have other
choices including flv/swf audio. If worst comes to worst and you are
on a slow isp from hell, the mp3 format is set up to download the song
selected to your computer. Most of the code is in php script on the
server. The code validates fully as xhtml 1.1 and as css on the
official W3C validators. For outdated browsers, such as all IE
browsers at least through IE7, the php script on the server rewrites
the page as html 4.01 strict. IE can not view any xhtml code if it is
served as application/xhtml+xml as required for xhtml, because the
page is then parsed as xml which is extremely strict. If the xhtml
page is wrongly served as text/html on the server, the loose-as-a-
goose html parser is used, the page may be viewable on IE; but then
you are only serving the page as html, using xhtml code has no point,
and you should use html 4.01 strict in the first place.
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