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  1. 24th Jun 2010 11:31 #1
    tripwater
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    Hello, this is for a project that is a private business app that you have to have a login for so I can't give you a link but here is my problem..

    The initial solution was window.open(path to movie )

    and it loaded in a popup. I am now ( using ajax calls ) calling a php page that knows where you are in the system and calls the appropriate training video. If I alert the comm response it shows me the correct path to my movie and if I take that path and place it in the browser the movie plays, how ever if I try to load my movie like this

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    <div onclick="this.style.display='none';" style="display: block; width: 1640px; height: 947px;" id="video_overlay"><div id="for_video">
<embed width="1024" height="768" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/" autoplay="true" bgcolor="000000" src="path_to_movie.mov">
</div>
</div>
    Nothing shows. I am new to all this so I may be doing something way wrong here. To explain the divs above, I am, in my own way, re-creating the look of the lightbox technique without all the extra code. It is a much more simple solution without all the fade effects. The main div loads a transparent layer and within that layer I load the response from my ajax call which the div with the id 'for_video' and contents within.

    I assume I need something else added to the embed code to make the movie show? I looked on apple's site for the tutorial http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed2.html and my tag looks exactly like theirs so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

    Any help with this would be grand. Thanks
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  2. 24th Jun 2010 12:06 #2
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    ok I even went so far as to create a test page and remove the divs to simplify and still no dice

    Code:
    <html><head>
</head><body>
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="768" width="1024">
<param name="SRC" value="http://www.nizex.com/videos/language/1/8/mv_calendar.mov">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="false">
<embed src="http://www.nizex.com/videos/language/1/8/mv_calendar.mov" autoplay="true" controller="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" height="768" width="1024">

</object></body></html>
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  3. 24th Jun 2010 12:33 #3
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    shouldn't your code be local not referencing something at apple?
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  4. 24th Jun 2010 12:48 #4
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    not sure what you mean. My src points to my movie on my server. THe reference to apple is what is on their site as far as if they do not have the plugin installed and the object tag has that code in it that I don't fully understand
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  5. 24th Jun 2010 12:50 #5
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    one thing worth noting is my friend has tested out my test code in Linux and windows FF and it loads. I am on Mac using FF and it does not
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    and I just tested this in Safari and it works
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    Install the QT pluggin in the FF browser.
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  8. 26th Jun 2010 09:01 #8
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    It is installed. I checked. And again, I can load the movie in FF by simply pasting the full path to the video in the address bar. It will load and play fine in FF. So it is not a plugin issue.

    Thanks
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  9. 26th Jun 2010 09:52 #9
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    Your code works fine in FF on Windows, don't know why not on Mac. But problem seems isolated to the FF browser on Mac, it's NOT the coding.
    Test your code on page uploaded to my server:
    http://www.cidigitalmedia.com/tutorials/ff.html
    any difference?
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  10. 26th Jun 2010 10:07 #10
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    Thanks for taking the the time you guys to reply and work with me on this...

    Eye for video, I visited your link and I get a blank page. Same result as with my example. We have been troubleshooting over here on why it seems isolated to my machine. Not entirely sure what is going on yet. I even cleared out the cache files on my machine for QT as well as the browser. I logged in as a different user account on my mac and still nothing. Back to the drawing board.

    Thanks again.
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