when you view it in IE the link to the video in the pop-up works fin
Not true at all. Doesn't work for me in IE and may not work for others either. Why? Because you are merely linking to the WMV file itself and that causes the movie to either not play at all, play in whatever local media player is designated to play that file-type on the end-user's system, or "possibly" play within a browser window (no guarantees).
Instead of using what you have now, use Windows Media Player object and embed controls (for cross-browser compatability), to allow the video to play and work perfectly in all major browsers (eg: MSIE, Netscape/Mozilla, and Opera browsers). I use this technique at my
Wacky Videos page at my site.
In your case I have created a working example (specifically for use at your site). This will open a new "pop-up" window with WMP object and embed controls, and will work in all browsers.
Working example for your site
OK. First thing you do is create a new page with this content...
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>JMFINAL</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
padding-top:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-left:0;
padding-right:0;
margin-top:0;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:0;
background-color: #000000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<object id="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/ en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256">
<param name="fileName" value="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.wmv">
<param name="animationatStart" value="true">
<param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
<param name="autoStart" value="true">
<param name="showControls" value="true">
<param name="Volume" value="-20">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.wmv" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-20>
</object>
</body>
</html>
- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
- <html>
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
- <title>JMFINAL</title>
- <style type="text/css">
- body {
- padding-top:0;
- padding-bottom:0;
- padding-left:0;
- padding-right:0;
- margin-top:0;
- margin-bottom:0;
- margin-left:0;
- margin-right:0;
- background-color: #000000;
- }
- </style>
- </head>
- <body>
- <object id="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/ en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
- standby="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="256">
- <param name="fileName" value="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.wmv">
- <param name="animationatStart" value="true">
- <param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
- <param name="autoStart" value="true">
- <param name="showControls" value="true">
- <param name="Volume" value="-20">
- <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.wmv" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=256 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-20>
- </object>
- </body>
- </html>
Name the above new page to
JMFINAL.htm.
Next, you need to change/modify a line within your
http://www.thelastlaughfl.com/dvd.htm page.
Change this exsiting line...
<a href="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.wmv" target="_blank" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out');" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','Jackpoppic_r2_c2','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f2.jpg','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f4.jpg',1);" onClick="MM_nbGroup('down','navbar1','Jackpoppic_r2_c2','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f3.jpg',1);">
to this instead...
<a href="http://thelastlaughfl.com/JMFINAL.htm" onMouseOut="MM_nbGroup('out');" onMouseOver="MM_nbGroup('over','Jackpoppic_r2_c2','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f2.jpg','Jackpoppic_r2_c2_f4.jpg',1);" onClick="window.open(this.href,'JMFINAL','top=50,left=50,width=280,height=257,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no');return false;">
Let me know when you have it all right so that I can remove the temp file I uploaded to my server.
April 7th, 2004, 9:56 pm
