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Embedded Windows Media Player problems in Internet Explorer (fine in Firefox, Chrome)

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Mar 23.2010

Hi,

I am trying to play a video from javascript using the WMP plugin in IE. It works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but not IE. Any help would be great!

— embedded player in the HTML

<embed id=”player”
type=”application/x-mplayer2″
CLASSID=”CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6″
WIDTH=”1495″ HEIGHT=”840″ ShowControls=”1″ ShowStatusBar=”0″ ShowDisplay=”0″ autostart=”1″>

— Clicking on a button on the page calls the change_channel javascript method

function change_channel(channel_address) {

document.getElementById(“player”).URL=”file://C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/WebClient/videos/ball-jump-epic-fail.mp4″;
}

— This doesn’t play the video in IE8. It works if I use the SRC parameter when I embed the player, but I need the video to change when I click on buttons.

Thank you.

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@donatelloMar 23.2010 — You've got to use the <object> tag.
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@yankiefrankieauthorMar 24.2010 — Thank you donatello. I am trying to use the object tag now. My web page is not displaying the same way with object, so I have to re-factor it a bit.

Do you know what is the the problem with embed? Cause the change_channel method (above) is called correctly when I use embed, but the URL call doesn't do anything (IE). In Chrome and Firefox it displays the video.
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@donatelloMar 25.2010 — You hit the nail right on the head.

IE

That's the problem!

LOL

We have all experienced the joy of making things work in IE... just when you got that right, you have to worry about IE6... fortunately, less people are using it... but now IE8 is making previously good sites go bad...

ahhhh Micro$oft!
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