Posted by cwdjrxyz on 09/26/66 11:49

ross wrote:
> I am posting WMV files on web sites. I find that I can only use the file
> once in a site. When I try to use the file in another place.the .wmv will
> not function. Good fortune when using the file on Internet except when
> trying to duplicate it in another place in the same web site. Tried changing
> the name and making copies and storing them in another folder to fool it,
> but no dice. Any advice?. The movie file is on www.seelenexa.com Thanks for
> your attention, Dick Ross

The url is only to a frame set page, but I was able to find
http://00673d3.netsolhost.com/seelenexa/index.htm and view the source
code that gives the link to the wmv. The page is working in quirks
mode. It is html 4.01 transitional and has 29 validation errors when
you take it to the W3C validator. Thus the first step is to clean up
the page to get it to validate. After that, perhaps it will be more
easy to find out what is going on. Using a frame page might or might
not have something to do with it. The wmv is being referenced only with
an old fashioned embed code that has never been part of official html.
The modern trend is to use an ActiveX object for the WMP with an embed
path within it for those browsers that do not support ActiveX. This
works usually, but the embed within the object is still illegal html.
It is quite possible to use only objects without illegal embeds to get
a wmp to play on most modern browsers.

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