Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / December 2005

Hello
I am trying to get an embeded WMP player to support ScriptCommand on a MAC.
I have tested under Safari as well as FireFox and IE, and can't seem to get
this to work. Has anyone out there been able to get ScriptCommands (URL
Specifically) to work under a MAC. If so please reply.

Here are the details of my implementation approach.
From what I understand, one has to use the embeded player to get browsers
under MAC to load the WMP plugin. No problems there, I can get media to play.
However the embeded WMP does not seem to handle the URL script commands. I
suspect this is because it is using the mplayer2 plugin instead of the
activeX plugin control (i can even see that the browser see's the URL,
however dosen't know what to do with it).
I have attempted using the Mozilla ActiveX plugin, however though this works
perfectly under WIN32, the plugin never loads under MAC OS X 10.3.? Is this
normal ?
So this brought me to trying to use the plugin handler as suggested by
support articles relating to cross compatibility
(NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class). Though I can get the apps to load (I can see
this at the java console), I can't get the applet to initialise properly when
calling the "loader()" function (see code below). I keep getting an error
message at the javascript console stating that the
"setByProxyDSScriptCommandObserver" is not a function.
Has anyone been able to use this plugin anymore ?

Here is the relevant sections of code if anyone can help me.

I call the loader() function off a body tag (onload="loader()").
Javascript console in Mozilla 1.0 tells me :
Error: document.appObs.setByProxyDSScriptCommandObserver is not a function

<object id="NSPlay" width=320 height=46
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
standby="Loading Microsoft Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject" align="bottom">
<param name="Filename" value="asx.asp?parser=<%=ThePage%>">
<param name="AutoStart" value="True">
<param name="ShowControls" value="True">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="False">
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="False">
<param name="AutoRewind" value="True">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/"
width="320" height="46" src="asx.asp?parser=<%=ThePage%>"
autostart="True" showcontrols="True" showstatusbar="False"
showdisplay="False" autorewind="True"
name="NSPlay">
</embed>
</object>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
   if ( navigator.appName == "Netscape" )
   {
       navigator.plugins.refresh();
       document.write("\x3C" + "applet MAYSCRIPT
Code=NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class codebase=http://cool.mcgill.ca/test/" )
       document.writeln(" width=5 height=5 name=appObs\x3E \x3C/applet\x3E")
    }
-->

function OnDSScriptCommandEvt (bstrType, bstrParam){
    alert("SEEING SCRIPT Commands");
}

function loader(){
if ( navigator.appName == "Netscape" ) {
     var plugIn = document.NSPlay;
     document.appObs.setByProxyDSScriptCommandObserver(plugIn, true);
}
}
</script>

Thanks for any information.
Sincerely
Nic Siggel