[ShyWizard]

Here is the problem-- I created a link on a webpage to the video file (movie.wmv). Here is an example www.wizard.com/movie.wmv)
but instead of playing the movie, the webbrowser show's me a weird greek language!
This only happens on an Apple....On a PC...it opens windows media player like it's suppose to and plays the movie.

So, i need the HTML to tell my mac browser to open that movie using my windows media player.....and not turn it into greek ancient writing.

How do i do this?

[derbs]

you need to create a .asx metafile and link to that from your site.

open bbedit and paste in

<ASX version="3.0">
<Entry>
<ref HREF="http://www.wizard.com/movie.wmv"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>

and save this as whatever.asx
Now point your link to this.

There's a good article on the microsoft msdn site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...t/html/asx.asp

"Windows Media™ metafiles are simply text files that act as links from Web pages to Windows Media-based content on a Windows Media server or Web server. The basic purpose of a metafile is to redirect streaming media content away from browsers, which in most cases are not capable of rendering the content, to Microsoft® Windows Media Player. Windows Media metafiles have a .wvx, .wax or .asx extension. When a browser downloads a file with one of these extensions from a Web site, it opens Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player then locates and plays the content specified in the file."

[ShyWizard]

I put in the text above and it WORKS! However, now on my friends PC, it no longer opens. I just get a blank page.

What do i do?

[derbs]

Originally posted by ShyWizard:
<STRONG>I put in the text above and it WORKS! However, now on my friends PC, it no longer opens. I just get a blank page.

What do i do?</STRONG>

doh! typical

could u post a link and i'll check it at work?