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Issue while playing video in firefox 19 using embed tag with mplayer2 plugin

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In mozilla firefox embed tag not working properly. the embed video starts playing after browser is resized. Can anyone help me out playing video in ff without resizing the browser? Below is the html code. The below code works in fine in other browser

<object id="MediaPlayer1" width="400" height="300" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-   B153-00C04F79FAA6"
standby="Loading Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
<param NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
<param name="uiMode" value="none">
<param name="PlayCount" value="9999">
<param name="url" value="C:\SR\documents\library\2013\Video\sample_1363245215320.avi" />            
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"  src='C:\SR\documents\library\2013\Video\sample_1363245215320.avi' NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" ShowControls="0" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="1">    </embed>
</object>
In mozilla firefox embed tag not working properly. the embed video starts playing after browser is resized. Can anyone help me out playing video in ff without resizing the browser? Below is the html code. The below code works in fine in other browser <pre><nowiki> <object id="MediaPlayer1" width="400" height="300" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3- B153-00C04F79FAA6" standby="Loading Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject"> <param NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True"> <param name="uiMode" value="none"> <param name="PlayCount" value="9999"> <param name="url" value="C:\SR\documents\library\2013\Video\sample_1363245215320.avi" /> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" src='C:\SR\documents\library\2013\Video\sample_1363245215320.avi' NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" ShowControls="0" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="1"> </embed> </object></nowiki></pre>

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can any one answer me? Its really urgent

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Maybe try to use the file protocol instead.

src="file:///C:/SR/documents/library/2013/Video/sample_1363245215320.avi"

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thanks for your response. I had tried putting direct web url in src but i am getting the same issue. This is the issue found in ff 18 ,19 it work fine in ff 11

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Did you try to make the width and height values larger?

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yes changing the height and width values also did'nt solved the issue