Need help from a mac web coder

[Pirate]

I'm having hassles getting the video player script working on Mac. aparently it causes crashes. Problem is I don't have access to a mac to find the problem.

So if anyone can look into the code for me on a mac.. see if there are any specific errors pleas PM me.

[evil]

I concur about the crash. It crashes my firefox, my IE AND my safari browsers ?! At least I know what it is now ....

[locust]

Yeah I've had the same issue across all browsers.

Seems very much like a plug-in issue to me more than something in the web browser.

[lostreality]

cant you use a different popular plugin i.e. Quicktime or Real(shit)Player

[locust]

From tracing the process it seems that firefox manages to load the Windows Media plug-in okay, but then sits there stalled completely waiting for input that never arrives.

Getting rid of WMP entirely (including /Library/Internet Plugins/Windows Media Player) fixes the issue, and Quicktime takes over playing what it can (MP3s, MPEGs, etc) but of course falls over when it comes against actual Windows Media content).

Uninstalling and reinstalling WMP has no effect.

[locust]

Took another squiz over lunch - if you get rid of the type="application/x-mplayer2" then the media gets passed off to Quicktime instead (in Firefox at least). AVIs won't work, but other stuff will and Windows Media won't go and fuck over the entire browser at least.

[yobsta]

i just loaded up the mainpage and on my mac with safari and i can finally see it without it shutting down my browser...YAY !!!!

[wolfpac181]

will check later. got a few ideas what it could be

[lowededwookie]

Took another squiz over lunch - if you get rid of the type="application/x-mplayer2" then the media gets passed off to Quicktime instead (in Firefox at least). AVIs won't work, but other stuff will and Windows Media won't go and fuck over the entire browser at least.

What about maybe using VideoLan Client, as it can handle a wide variety of formats including WMV?

[Pirate]

I just got converted to video lan last night.. what a fucking awesome player.


I'll try removing the type="application/x-mplayer2" later today and post a thread in here to test.

[lostreality]

this is going to sound complicated and probably wouldnt work with a site as big as this but........

how bout if you made 2 versions of the front page, and a little script that automatically recognised which browser you was in then forwarded you to either one of the front pages.

one front page for safari etc - embedded with quicktime

and the other front page for 90% of users embedded with WMP.