It's a frustrating situation you're describing for content providers. Windows knows its own and when it hits a wmv it opens its Media Player. Netscape/Firefox seems deliberately to not understand the file format. I
create a separate link to the file when I embed web video for just this reason. Here's an example: http://www.digicorps.com/matchbox.htm View this page in IE and you will see an embedded player - press the play button and it does. View it in Firefox and you will NOT see the embedded player. You'll have to use the separate link referring to Netscape. I've spent many hours trying to get around this but either I'm not up to it or their browser isn't. I can't believe their isn't a way to show the embedded player and I would sure be grateful to anyone who can show me how. ---For many folks an embedded player is ideal because again it requires little or no user intervention in order for it to work. Some Firefox Folks (like myself) have figured out how to configure their FILE TYPES (I wonder if this is the same thing as MIME TYPES that Taky referred to?) in the PLUG INS. My Firefox browser opens a separate Windows Media Player whenever I click on a WMV or related streaming link. So again it boils down to a "power user" versus someone who "doesn't know and doesn't care, just wants it to work" type. Personally I side with the latter, because you should NOT have to be a rocket scientist or programmer in order to view media files on the internet. I dont believe in the word "blame" but I DO believe in responsibility and I hold Microsoft responsible for a goodly portion of this mess....They virtually destroy any business that gets in the way of their monopolistic practices and expect everyone to use THEIR BROWSER, and indeed most users view their browser the same way your grandparents regarded the dial tone on their telephones. It just doesn't occur to someone that they might want a different browser until the day comes when pop ups, trojans and all manner of malicious code renders their seven hundred dollar investment useless. Well, sorry to say, but it's precisely because Microsoft's Internet Exploder is such a bullet riddled piece of swiss cheese that people have started running to the Firefox camp, but they didn't pick up a degree in PC engineering when they went there....they just heard it on CNN or the local morning news "computer corner". Microsoft has worked feverishly to make their operating system and its associated components as much an integral part of the PC as the old Ma Bell Telephone Company did theirs, and that's all well and good IF IT WORKS FIRST TIME EVERY TIME. If it does not, that's where the trouble starts. For savvy users you should not worry...they like their media enough to figure out how to do the workarounds, and you can always stick in a tiny link to a quick help page if the media is very intensive or integral to your site. If your media HAS to WORK with zero tolerance for BS you should just consider using Flash. They wont have the same amount of control but it's guaranteed to work every time. Flash is installed on 95% of the browser on the planet. For the other five per cent it takes less than a minute to do the install on a dial up connection. JeffH Ch.S. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
