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html or windows media player?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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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?
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Nottingham, UK
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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."
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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?
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Nottingham, UK
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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?
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