Quicktime Embed code does not show up on FF 3.6.7
Issue
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
Description
Since the FF update to 3.6.7, my code for the quicktime embed video does not show up on my website (www.brandonleelau.com).
and this is the code i have;
and Im just wondering why my video does not show up, do i need to change something in my coding?
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
when i updated to 3.6.7
Troubleshooting information
Application Basics
Name Firefox
Version 3.6.7
Profile Directory
Show in Finder
Installed Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
StumbleUpon 3.64 true
Modified Preferences
Name
Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0
browser.history_expire_days.mirror 180
browser.places.importBookmarksHTML false
browser.places.importDefaults false
browser.places.leftPaneFolderId -1
browser.places.migratePostDataAnnotations false
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion 2
browser.places.updateRecentTagsUri false
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone rv:1.9.2.7
extensions.lastAppVersion 3.6.7
javascript.options.showInConsole true
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy 2
network.cookie.prefsMigrated true
places.last_vacuum 1279661018
print.macosx.pagesetup-2 AAAdsDw/eG1sIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMCIgZW5jb2Rpbmc9IlVURi04Ij8+CjwhRE9DVFlQRSBwbGlzdCBQVUJMSUMgIi0vL0FwcGxlIENvbXB1dGVyLy9EVEQg…
print.print_bgcolor false
print.print_bgimages false
print.print_command
print.print_downloadfonts true
print.print_evenpages true
print.print_in_color true
print.print_margin_bottom 0.5
print.print_margin_left 0.5
print.print_margin_right 0.5
print.print_margin_top 0.5
print.print_oddpages true
print.print_orientation 0
print.print_pagedelay 500
print.print_paper_data 0
print.print_paper_height 11.00
print.print_paper_size 446024960
print.print_paper_size_type 1
print.print_paper_size_unit 0
print.print_paper_width 8.50
print.print_printer
print.print_reversed false
print.print_scaling 1.00
print.print_shrink_to_fit true
print.print_to_file false
print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom 56
print.print_unwriteable_margin_left 25
print.print_unwriteable_margin_right 25
print.print_unwriteable_margin_top 25
privacy.clearOnShutdown.offlineApps true
privacy.item.cookies true
privacy.item.offlineApps true
privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage false
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs true
security.warn_viewing_mixed false
Firefox version
3.6.7
Operating system
Intel Mac OS X 10.4
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Plugins installed
- -Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- Gecko default plugin
- npmnqmp 071701000001
- http://www.facebook.com/fbplugin/
- iPhoto6
- Simplifies the uploading of photo files.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- DivX Web Player version 1.4.0.233
- NPVeohVersion plugin
- Contribute Plug-inInbrowser Editor Plug-in
- Office Live Update v1.0
- Version 1.0.20.8768
- Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
All Replies (16)
sorry, this is my code for the quicktime embed video
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="355"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="Assets/Home%3AReel/100429LauBrandonReel.mov" />
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="Assets/Home%3AReel/100429LauBrandonReel.mov" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="355" AUTOPLAY="false" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
i took out the opening tags so that they would show
(fixed code - c)
You can try to add type="video/quicktime" to the embed. It does work for me on Linux like it is now.
On this forum you need to use the HTML entity < for "<" and > for ">". Use the CODE button after you have selected the text to put the text in a CODE block
so I added the type into the coding but its still not showing up. i really have no idea what to do, any help i would greatly appreciate
I'm not seeing a type in the code on http://www.brandonleelau.com/
Try this code:
<EMBED SRC="Assets/Home%3AReel/100429LauBrandonReel.mov" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="355"
TYPE="video/quicktime" AUTOPLAY="false" CONTROLLER="true"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
Another good place to ask questions and advice about web development is at the MozillaZine Web Development/Standards Evangelism forum. The helpers at that forum are more knowledgeable about web development issues. You need to register at the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum. See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25
This same issue is happening to me with a site I am building.
http://andysapp.com/clients/willroegge/video-player.php?v=gt3-climb
(Links from this page http://andysapp.com/clients/willroegge/portfolio.php )
The video will show up in Safari okay... but Firefox just sits with the Quicktime logo and doesn't go anywhere else.
Modified by cor-el
I'm on Linux. There is no QuickTime for the Linux platform, but I see the player loading (caching) that movie. The Gecko Media Player doesn't seem to be able to play that file embedded, but does play it if I open the .mov file directly in the player.
Another good place to ask questions and advice about web development is at the MozillaZine Web Development/Standards Evangelism forum.
The helpers at that forum are more knowledgeable about web development issues.
You need to register at the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum.
Does that mean the embed code is malformed in some way? Even when I try and strip down the code of the options I still can't get it to work.
It doesn't seem that it is malformed if it is playing in Safari okay.
I am pretty much at a standstill with the build-out of this website until I can get this sorted out. I have found several instances where this has happened to other people - but no solutions.
I see PLENTY of websites with embedded QT files that work fine in Firefox. Surely there has to be some easy solution.
This doesn't even make sense. I visited the link above: www.brandonleelau.com.
Viewed source and copied the embed code (which is working for me - I can play the video fine). I pasted it into my 'video-player.php' file, and hard-coded the link to the video file (instead of passing the string via the URL).
It didn't work. I get the same Quicktime Q... and nothing more.
These videos are rendered using the H.264 codec, which is pretty standard.
I just let the window sit open, and it looks like it won't play the movie until it is completely downloaded. Once I left the window open for several minutes and the movie fully downloaded - it played.
This doesn't really help me because I need it to begin playing when launched... and download the rest of the movie as it plays.
There hasn't been any new posts on this thread for a while, but I wanted to know, Brandon, if there has been some progress with the problem you were encountering. I see that your quicktime movies still do not load in firefox.
I am a video editor and motion graphic artist and I am having the same issue with a quicktime movie on my site. By the way, I am impressed with your work!
Any solutions that you may have stumbled across?
I would suggest to use a cross-browser JavaScript library Voynex Object Embedding ( http://voynex.com/products/object-embedding ) to easily embed windows media audio/video to your HTML documents. With the help of this library you can embed audio, video and other types of objects in one line of code.