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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / January 2006How to play .wmv in safari without Flip4Mac
Hello guys, i m a student working on a project in which one server is streaming a .wmv file with mms protocol, and i want to display that file in Mac OS X. I installed flip4mac first and with that safari displayed the file with quicktime componant in the web browser, but for that every user has to install the Flip4Mac which could be little difficult sometimes. so is there any other plug-in provided by the media player or anyone else so that i can direct embed media player in safari browser and then safari can play that file with media player componant instead quicktime. i m sorry. i m new in this area. i hope you all get my point. Thanks. Lace > so is there any other plug-in provided by the media player or anyone > else so that i can direct embed media player in safari browser and then > safari can play that file with media player componant instead > quicktime. WMP 9 comes with an Internet Plug-in that should work in Safari. It's buggy, but it *should* work. Have you tried it ?? I don't quite understand the problem though. Either all users will have to install FLip4Mac or they will all have to install WMP9, but in both cases, they will have to all install *something*... Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire you are right Corentin. but in the case of WMP 9, it is required by most of the applications, i mean in general use. so i m assuming that most of the users will have WMP 9 already installed. but there are many users who even dont know bout Flip4Mac. now my question is when i try to view .wmv on the browser, WMP 9 opens a separate windows and then plays that file. so is it any way that i can play the file inside safari browser, just like quicktime files can be played in the browser window. Thanks. Lace > you are right Corentin. > > but in the case of WMP 9, it is required by most of the applications, i > mean in general use. so i m assuming that most of the users will have > WMP 9 already installed. but there are many users who even dont know > bout Flip4Mac. It's not like in Windows... Most people I know don;t have WMP installed on their Mac. They usually install it when they need to sstrem some specific content that uses one of the WM formats. Most of the people live hapilly with QuickTime player for a very long time. > now my question is when i try to view .wmv on the browser, WMP 9 opens > a separate windows and then plays that file. so is it any way that i > can play the file inside safari browser, just like quicktime files can > be played in the browser window. It might be a matter of having the behavior properly set for the corresponding MIME types. The easiest way to access these settings nowadays is to go through the Internet Explorer preferences (changes there will be written back to the repository the system uses for these settings for all other browsers to use). Corentin WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire >you are right Corentin. > >but in the case of WMP 9, it is required by most of the applications, i >mean in general use. so i m assuming that most of the users will have >WMP 9 already installed. but there are many users who even dont know >bout Flip4Mac. I think here's the point : You as a webmaster need to educate your users to have this installed. In many cases that would be providing a link to the Flip4Mac download, which is independent of having media player. Since you can't script WMP in a web page on Mac, but you *can* script Quicktime on a Mac in Safari etc, you should be able to differentiate those users being able to sucessfully play a clip from those who can't I'll probably spend a while this weekend looking at a reliable detection script to determine if this link can be written into the web page at the point any installed player is loaded by the page. Check back Monday or Tuesday to see if I get anywhere with this. >now my question is when i try to view .wmv on the browser, WMP 9 opens >a separate windows and then plays that file. It shouldn't. What embedding code are you using ? > so is it any way that i >can play the file inside safari browser, just like quicktime files can [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Lace Corentin, do you have any idea how can i change the MIME types for Safari broswer? will it solve the problem? Neil, I'm using the following code: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=271 CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6, 4,7,1112"> <PARAM name="autoStart" value=1> <PARAM name="filename" value="mms://colsvr06w01m.cti.edu/LectureHigh.wmv"> <PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE=1> <PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE=1> <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="mms://colsvr06w01m.cti.edu/LectureHigh.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=271 autostart="false" showcontrols="true" showstatusbar="true"></EMBED> </OBJECT> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll check back for the script on monday or tuesday. Thanks guys. Cheers. Lace > Corentin, do you have any idea how can i change the MIME types for > Safari broswer? will it solve the problem? Sure, as I was saying: > The easiest way to access these settings > nowadays is to go through the Internet Explorer preferences (changes > there will be written back to the repository the system uses for these > settings for all other browsers to use). You can also use the freeware "RCDefaultApp" http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ which reads and writes in what used to be called the Internet Config Database. It'll let you set the default app for chosen MIME types but I'm not sure it'll let you chose whether to play the movie in the browser or in the app. WMV from Flip4Mac comes with a prefpane where you can chose whether you want the file types associated with it to play in the browser or in QT player... Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire >Corentin, do you have any idea how can i change the MIME types for >Safari broswer? will it solve the problem? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >I'll check back for the script on monday or tuesday. OK so far (9pm Sunday) I've been unable to find enough time to completely solve this. In the meantime, here's the code I'm so far considering "optimal", which will play the content the same way in Firefox (Mac and PC), IE6 (PC) and Safari : <!--[if IE]> <object classid="clsid:6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6" type="application/x-oleobject" width="320" height="320" id="MediaPlayer1"> <param name="url" value="falluja.asf" /> <param name="uimode" value="mini" /> <param name="autostart" value="true" /> <!--[if ! IE]> <object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="falluja.asf" width="320" height="320" id="QTPlayer2"> <param name="src" value="falluja.asf" /> <param name="autoplay" value="true" /> <param name="autostart" value="true" /> <param name="controller" value="true" /> <param name="qtsrcdontusebrowser" value="true" /> <param name="enablejavascript" value="true" /> </object> <![endif]--> </object> Obviously, change each instance of "falluja.asf" for your complete URL to your content. There seems to be a subtle and unexpected problem with scripting the QT player when embedding WMV content using the Flip4Mac component. I won't reproduce this report here, you can read it on their forums and watch for any follow-ups there : http://www.flip4mac.com/fusetalk/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=32&threadid=971&en terthread=y Inthe meantime, the code above ought not to cause any problems you've described with the player launching separately from the web page. There could be slight differences in the controller height between versions, that's something to take account of when sizing the controls at design time (WMP7-10 is 40 pixels high, WMP6.4 is a little more, Quicktime is 16 pixels) Ref : http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sd k/playerfullscreen.asp HTH Cheers - Neil |
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