From: Nicholas Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: embedded RealPlayer and CGI
Does it happen if you use a fully-qualified http URL for the SRC? (eg:
src="http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/create_reel.pl?blahblahbla")
At 02:15 PM 3/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>From: "Josh Samberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: embedded RealPlayer and CGI
>
>I want to create a sequence of RealVideo clips where a user of the site
>choose which clips will play and in what order. The page provides and
>interface for the user to make their choices, and then calls a CGI script
>which dynamically assembles a .rmm file based on those choices. If I link
>to that script by saying <a
>href="create_reel.pl?&speed=asfhi&clips=blahblahblah">, clicking the link
>causes the browser to open up an external RealPlayer and play the .rmm that
>the script assembles. We know it works because the player does play the
>correct clips and in the correct order. The same is true if we link through
>a javscript function like:
>
>window.location="create_reel.pl?&speed=asfhi&clips=blahblahblah";
>
>Now, here's the problem - we want to play the dynamically created .rmm in an
>embedded RealPlayer, and that won't work. I set up the embed tag so that
>it's src property points to the same url from above - which works if we just
>give that URL to the browser. But, that doesn't work for the embedded
>player. We have an embed tag that looks like this:
>
><embed src="create_reel.pl&speed=asfhi&clips=blahblahblah"
>type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"...>
>
>When the page with the embedded player comes up, the player displays that it
>is connecting, and then an error message comes up and it says that it cannot
>play that file. It specifies a path for the file, which to me looks like a
>lot of gibberish, but it basically looks OK - it says somethin like
>//mem/cgi-bin/create_reel.pl&speed=asfhi&clips=blahblahblah.
>
>Now, I know the link is valid and the file is created correctly because if I
>give that link directly to the browser, it opens an external player and
>plays it just fine. For some reason, the embed tag will not accept it for
>it's src. I need to know how to get it to work in an embedded player.
>
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