Any Support for Windows Media Video(wmv) format?

[komik]

Does powweb support the Streaming Windows Media Format (wmv) or just Real (rm) format. The video files I have on my website work fine under the MS browser when I link to them directly. To the wmv not the wmx file but do not work in Netscape. I know this is not the correct way to do this. If this is not supported please let me know the formats that are.

Thanks

mark@mwsandracing.com
http://mwsandracing.com/

[Rick_E]

I believe they tell you to create and link to metafiles (just one line text files that link to your media file). You could try that. Info here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/create.asp

[komik]

Thanks for the link....I am not sure if it is actually streaming it but it does download to I.E 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 ....haven't tested on Netscape...It used to crash but with this is appears it is not...

Demo

video Demo (http://mwsandracing.com/videos_copsand_02_02.htm)

The pics aren't there yet but if anyone can check to make sure the videos are lauched in Netscape I would appriate the help.

[Ddr]

I tried streaming your vids at that link using Netscape 4.72 (yes, it is an older version) and all I got was the following text displayed:


<ASX version = "3.0">
<Entry>
<Ref href = "cop_sand_vid_02_02_002.wmv" />
</Entry>
</ASX>

I am guessing that is the content of your metafile?

If you find a solution that works cross platform, please come back and share it?

Thanks,

Dale

[komik]

What version of Media Player are you using. I believe it requires 7.0 or greater...let me know...think I will need to do a check on the version.

[Ddr]

I ran tests with both Netscape 4.72 and IE 5.5+. I have Windows Media player v. 7.01. The video streamed when attempted with IE, but got the results as reported with that version of Netscape.

Dale

[komik]

I have tried a few different attempts at getting the wmv files to stream on netscape but have not been successful. I tried the microsoft fix list aboove and some others

http://www.cvc4.org/mentorworkshop/streamingmedia/WindowsMedia_from_Netscape.htm

But still no luck.....I think it is because there is not a multi media server (mms) or because netscape just sucks...

Look like I am going to have to change the files to Real Media


Mark

[Fast351]

The problem is there is no MIME-TYPE set up for WMV on the apache servers PowWeb runs. IE uses file extensions to determine the file type of the file, whereas Netscape (correctly) uses the MIME-TYPE that the server tells it it is. However, since the server doesn't know that .WMV is a xvideo/WMV or whatever, the default mime type is sent, that being text/html. Therefore the WMV shows up as text, which is just a garbled mess.

-Mike

[Fast351]

See info here:

http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18714

[Rick_E]

The following embed tag should stream your wmv in Netscape 7 (I haven't tested others). Insert the HTML code into the HTML where you want the player to appear.

<embed src="yourmovie.wmv" width="320" height="285" align="center" style="border: 2px solid #808080; ">