Biz thread: video and coder people please
 

Ok, I wanted to have a little windows media player file start playing when a page opened, and then autoloop indefinitely. Bully for me.

Autostart works fine in firefox, but no go in IE. The looping works in neither.

Any ideas or something I'm missing? I've searched and searched forums and everywhichway, but can't get it to work. Do I have to revert to Flash instead?

Might want to take a look at this page
http://www.mioplanet.com/rsc/embed_mediaplayer.htm

Thanks. That was one of the first pages I found. I will have to go over things again, I guess.

Ahhhhhhhahahahhaha

Ok, it works beautifully in IE now, complete with endless iterations and invisible controls. But Firefox calls it an error and asks me to shut down.

If you haven't seen this page yet -
Full Step-By-Step Guide: Embedded Windows Media in Firefox
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213

I've never tried it

Thank you very much! For some reason the mozillazine never even occurred to me!

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And here is the updated (2005) Mozillazine Embedding thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206216

And here's an interesting bug report:
Effects
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FireFox v1.5
Windows Media Player v10 (and 9.0)

Issue
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When creating the <embed> tags, there are a number of attributes ignored by FireFox. The most annoying one is AutoPlay. By default, FF plays all videos period. There is no option to disable a video/stream from playing when the page loads by setting this to False, 0, etc.