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Playing DCR Files in a Browser

Asked by pmascari in Macromedia Director Video Editing Software

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I'm an experienced web developer but have not worked much with Director files.  I've been handed a site that was built about 5 years ago.  It's got several DCR files on it that worked at one time but no longer play, however, I do hear sound out of them...just no display.

When I download the files to my desktop and try to play them...same thing: sound but nothing else.  However, when I place them on my own development server they run just fine.

The only difference I can think of is the production web server I believe is IIS while mine is Apache.  But, that leads to another question...are DCR files web server dependent?  I ask because the files won't play correctly loaded directly from my machine either.

For reference, the HTML code for one of the file in particular is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Developing Quality IEPs</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">
<object classid="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="640" height="480">
  <param name="src" value="open.dcr">
  <embed src="open.dcr" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" width="640" height="480">
  </embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>

What's going on here?

One last note...I do NOT have access to the original Director files.  All I have are the DCR files which I've found can not be opened.  *sigh*Start Free Trial
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