why do some WMVs play inside the browser.....

[cranki]

...and some need to be downloaded before playing externally in windows media player? What's the secret?

[greg80]

it's easy

if you just link to a wmv it will open separatly

if you use the right code it will play in browser

here is the code, you need to change that Movie.wmc part twice:

<object id="MMPlayer1" width=460 height=400
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/
mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,
1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="FileName"
value="Movie.wmv" />
<param name="ShowControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowAudioControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowPositionControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowTracker" value="1" />
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1" />
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="0" />
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="Slide" />
<param name="Autostart" value="1" />
<PARAM NAME="EnableContextMenu" VALUE="false">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/
MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
src="Movie.wmv"
name=MMPlayer1 autostart=1
showcontrols=1 showdisplay=0 showstatusbar=1 defaultframe="Slide"
width=460 height=400> </embed>
</object>

[pornguy]

Thanks greg80, I can use that.

[cranki]

it's easy

if you just link to a wmv it will open separatly

if you use the right code it will play in browser

here is the code, you need to change that Movie.wmc part twice:

<object id="MMPlayer1" width=460 height=400
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/
mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,
1,52,701" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="FileName"
value="Movie.wmv" />
<param name="ShowControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowAudioControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowPositionControls" value="1" />
<param name="ShowTracker" value="1" />
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1" />
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="0" />
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="Slide" />
<param name="Autostart" value="1" />
<PARAM NAME="EnableContextMenu" VALUE="false">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/
MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
src="Movie.wmv"
name=MMPlayer1 autostart=1
showcontrols=1 showdisplay=0 showstatusbar=1 defaultframe="Slide"
width=460 height=400> </embed>
</object>

That's not what I mean... it's when I click on a linked WMV... in most cases, it opens the download prompt, but sometimes the wmv behaves like an mpeg and streams in my browser window...

[~Ray]

when I click a .mpeg file, it opens my media player, when I click on a .mpg file, it plays it in the browser.

hate that shit.

[Diligent]

That's server side settings, You can set up whether You want streaming or downloading of different file types, I think it's Apache handlers doing it.

Also explains why AdvertisingSex gets this with .mpg, but that with .mpeg... .mpg is set up for streaming/embedding behavior.

[testpie]

That's not what I mean... it's when I click on a linked WMV... in most cases, it opens the download prompt, but sometimes the wmv behaves like an mpeg and streams in my browser window...

Basically it's because of MIME-type handlers as Diligent said, but in my experience it's usually because the WMV is a wrapper for streamed MMS content.

[cranki]

ah, now things become a little clearer