Posted by cwdjrxyz on 12/05/56 11:38

Ralph Höglund wrote:
> Neredbojias skrev:
> > With neither quill nor qualm, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ralph_H=F6glund?= quothed:
> >
> >
> >>Sorry, I was not clear enough. I want an embedded player that the
> >>visitor can choose by clicking on a label "Play music clips".
> >>
> >>I know that even Windows media player nav handle m3u.
> >>
> >>What I have that works fine is MyMP3Stream. Link:
> >>
> >>http://bohuswines.se/scripts/indexmain.html
> >>
> >>Click on: "Musik-clips". This player reads xml-playlist fine.
> >
> >
> > All that I get is a blank little window.
> >
> Try to download Macromedia Flash player.

Yes, your page does require that flash be installed on the computer. I
was able to download your file with the extension .swf which shows the
player. It of course will not work offline as it needs to be on your
site to have access to the music.

I also downloaded a free trial of a program to be put on the server for
streaming mp3s or certain video formats that you also have on the
server. What it actually does is convert your media to a flash format
and adds some player chrome and playlists. It too requires flash on a
browser to be viewed. It used awful code for the flash that included
the dual ActiveX-embed paths, so I was not interested in it.

I then looked at Google's new video service for their free videos. If
you view the video online, you must have flash installed. However
Google has a special player which you may download fairly rapidly. You
may also download the videos as a Google .gvp file. However the .gvp
file is just a link to the actual video file at Google, and the
computer must be online when you use the Google player. If you open
Opera and have it open a Google .gvp file, it gives you a short file
that includes a URL for an .avi file. If you follow this URL, you can
download the .avi. It can be huge - about 60MB for 15 minutes in one
case. There are several variations of avi files, and not all types will
play on all players. This avi could not be opened by the WMP. It could
be opened by a player that comes with Nero, but there was only video
with missing sound. However if you use Xilisoft to convert the avi to
..wmv format, the resulting .wmv would play correctly on the WMP. Of
course for the videos that Google sells, everything is highly encrypted
and you can not download the complete video in any format without
paying.

I now wonder if it is more likely that a computer would have a WMP
player installed or flash installed, as it appears the methods I
examined required at least some player be installed. For now I plan to
stick to streaming multiple files using a .wax and/or .ram file which
can contain a playlist of several songs.

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