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Can't seem to embed WMV videos.

I was trying to EMBED a WMV video in a web page this evening and I couldn't seem to get it to work in any browser with any of the Many sample codes on the web. One WMV that used to work on one of my sites has also stopped playing in the browsers. Both WMV's play fine directly in Windows Media Player but I can't see to get any plugin in any browser to work.

Does anyone have a working example of a WMV embedded in a web page?

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andrewjamesb

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Dave Baldwin

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Interesting. That's the code I've been using and last night it wouldn't work. This morning it works fine. I'll have to check browsers on some other computers.

COBOLdinosaur

Is it possible that you had something wrong on an initial test and there was something in cache that kept causing the failure?

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Dave Baldwin

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No, it turned out that I had an old plugin for Windows Media Player. I had to download and re-install Windows Media Player to fix it. The plugin somehow was leftover from 1999.!?! Works fine now.

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Dave Baldwin

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I'm still running IE8 on my old XP computers. Downloading the current version of Windows Media Player 11 has fixed most of the problems... except for the Windows Update site acting very squirrelly for a while. And on one computer that came with Windows Media Center... I can't install WMP11 over WMP10... because, even though it is running XP SP3, it is not running Windows Media Center 2005 or newer.! But I was able to get WMP10 to run on it after a while with the browser plugins.

I had not checked for a while but IE8 and Firefox require me to 'OK' the addons/plugins before they will run. A little irritating. My Mac and Linux boxes will also run the WMVs. It's interesting having all these different computers. Even the ones that are "supposed to be the same" are not. Always some difference in the software. Especially when you find leftovers from the previous century...

Dave Baldwin

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Thanks for the help.