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Logic · Jul 26, 2004, 07:24 PM

Didn't know where to put this and thought I'd try here. Sometimes when I'm trying to watch video through Safari over the net I get this blue Lego thingy with a white question-mark on it. Anyone know what it is and what I need to be able to watch the video instead of the Lego thing?

thanks

Developer · Jul 26, 2004, 07:39 PM

That's not a "Lego thingy", that's a plug-in symbol. And the question mark means that a plug-in for the particular type is not installed. For video that might be Realplayer or Windows Media Player.

http://www.real.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherpr...d=windowsmedia

Don't be influenced by Real's bad reputation. Realplayer 10 for Mac is excellent. The Windows Media Player plug-in is bearable (the standalone app is crap though).

Logic · Jul 26, 2004, 08:10 PM

DL'd and installed both. Still not working. Is there some way to see what plug in Safari needs to play the video?

Danke

gorickey · Jul 26, 2004, 08:12 PM

Originally posted by Logic:
DL'd and installed both. Still not working. Is there some way to see what plug in Safari needs to play the video?

What link/video are you trying to get working?

philzilla · Jul 26, 2004, 08:13 PM

Originally posted by Logic:
DL'd and installed both. Still not working. Is there some way to see what plug in Safari needs to play the video?

Danke

it should tell you what's missing, and offer to direct you to a download page. if in doubt, check the code of the page and post a bit. someone will clue you in.

Logic · Jul 26, 2004, 08:21 PM

Here's the video-stream: http://www.stvod.com/live_video.jsp?id=9

Should be a football match(soccer for you yanks

). Unfortunately it's a chinese site I think so I don't know what it says

.

Here's the source:

Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>???</TITLE>
<script>

self.focus();

</script>
<META content="text/html; charset=GBK" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.3103.1000" name=GENERATOR>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.stvod.com/images/site.css" type="text/css">

<script language="javascript" src="clientjs/msplayer.js"></script>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#b7becc"  leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" >


<object id="player" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"  height=346 width=426>
	<param NAME="URL" VALUE="mms://ms1.stvod.com/football2.wmv?userid=guest1&token=4da97bba2724b31453d582998ca9f7b4">
	<param NAME="rate" VALUE="1">
	<param NAME="balance" VALUE="0">
	<param NAME="defaultFrame" VALUE>
	<param NAME="playCount" VALUE="1">
	<param NAME="autoStart" VALUE="1">
	<param NAME="currentMarker" VALUE="0">
	<param NAME="invokeURLs" VALUE="-1">
	<param NAME="baseURL" VALUE>
	<param NAME="volume" VALUE="50">
	<param NAME="mute" VALUE="0">
	<param NAME="stretchToFit" VALUE="1">
	<param NAME="windowlessVideo" VALUE="0">
	<param NAME="enabled" VALUE="-1">
	<param NAME="enableContextMenu" VALUE="-1">
	<param NAME="fullScreen" VALUE="0">
	<param NAME="SAMIStyle" VALUE>
	<param NAME="SAMILang" VALUE>
	<param NAME="SAMIFilename" VALUE>
	<param NAME="captioningID" VALUE>    
</object>
<div id="fullLayer"  style="position:absolute; left:296px; top:317px; width:70px; height:21px; z-index:2; background-color: #FFFFFF; layer-background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px none #000000; visibility: visible;"> 
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="????" onclick="setfullscreen()">
</div>

</body>
</html>

If I know anything about this, mms is windows media. Am I correct?

gorickey · Jul 26, 2004, 08:30 PM

Originally posted by Logic:
If I know anything about this, mms is windows media. Am I correct?

From Mactopia's Windows Media Player support page:
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When using a Web browser, you may experience problems opening Web links to content that uses the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol. You may need to manually enter the address to the content in Windows Media Player.

To play content that uses MMS, start Windows Media Player, and on the File menu, click Open URL, and then type the URL.
-------------------
I, for one, have NEVER had any luck when trying to open up mms:// files using WMP in OS X...

Logic · Jul 26, 2004, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
From Mactopia's Windows Media Player support page:
------------------
When using a Web browser, you may experience problems opening Web links to content that uses the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol. You may need to manually enter the address to the content in Windows Media Player.

To play content that uses MMS, start Windows Media Player, and on the File menu, click Open URL, and then type the URL.
-------------------
I, for one, have NEVER had any luck when trying to open up mms:// files using WMP in OS X...

Me neither. I tried that but it didn't work.

f1000 · Jul 26, 2004, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by Logic:
Me neither. I tried that but it didn't work.

Works fine for me. Type the following URL into Safari's address bar or WMP's Open URL command, or just click on the link:

http://ms1.stvod.com/football2.wmv?u...9060899e06206c