HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
HeavyDuty wrote:
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
the one on the right is a flash player and it doesn't run until
you click on it. The other one, on the left, is a wmp player
and its that one that starts right away.
What happens in a test profile?
Thanks Peter,
What happens, happens pretty fast. I do appreciate your help. If
you have figured this out, and so I can deal with this in the
future, were you saying in your previous post to hit F11 as soon
as I see the opening web page to stop the WMP version from
starting? That might be helpful if I ever visit this site again
(not likely) but not if I stubble on another web site that does
the same thing without my anticipation or and without warning.
Beyond this specific example, once a video starts, as this one
does, how to stop it without shutting down? Losing control over
the computer is my principal concern.
No. I have not created a test profile yet. I am hoping someone
knows how to defeat an "attacking" video.
Thanks for your help.
I didn't say that at all about F11. You said you get a "full
screen video captured my computer" so I interpreted that as saying
you get the video in Full Screen mode. Hitting F11 is a toggle
between full screen and normal screen mode. From the browser, hit
F11 and see what happens.
Now reading what you're saying, this is not your problem. So, you
have to tell me what you mean by "an 'attacking' video? Yes, on
that site [and on others], the video plays automatically. Thats
the way the site was designed and the way wmp works.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, there is no way to turn off the
automatic start of a wmp video without hitting the stop button on
the video controls.
So, maybe you need to give a little more info about what exactly
is your problem.
F11 toggles nothing. The video plays full screen.
There are no video controls displayed to hit the stop button. If
there is a stop button on this (or any other) web site and the
video autoplays instantaneously, I doubt that I would know in time
to stop it. In this case, WMP does not start in a visible way. The
monitor screen just drops to black and a few seconds later the
video starts.
The questions remains, how to a) stop an instantaneous video from
running without my explicit action to start it, or how to stop such
a video during play. All I want is to be able to regain control of
the computer and not have to wait until a video ends or until I
shut down the computer.
lets try it this way. This is what I see when I visit that site:
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/1678/wmpah0.jpg
On the bottom right is a flash vid that won't start until I click it.
On the bottom left is a wmp vid that starts automatically when I go
to that page. As you can see, I have controls on the bottom of the
vid to stop, start, and so forth. Is this what you see? If not,
then post an image somewhere of what you get and we'll go from there.
Yes Peter,
That is what I see for less than two seconds. Not enough time for me
to get the cursor to that (sub)menu bar and hit stop. Certainly not
enough time to even know what or where to look if I am a first time
visitor. Of course, by now, I am not a first timer.
Nonetheless, once this video starts, I cannot stop it. This is NOT
about this particular sales pitch on this site. I am not
intentionally going back to this site again, but I have concern about
this happening again on another site. That is what I am asking help
about. How can I stop/escape this type of behavior (elsewhere) once
it starts? I want to be able to take back control of my computer. How
to do this? That is the question.
well for a first timer, I'm sure that if they'd scroll down, then I'm
sure they'd see where this voice was coming from, and which video was
playing. Then if they click on the video controls, they could stop
it. Or if they right click on it, then it would bring up the advanced
controls and they can stop it from there.
Why you can't figure out that some sort of video is playing, and which
video is playing, I have no idea. Why you are unable to click on the
vid stop button, again I have no idea.
Peter,
The reason you have no idea is because you will not accept what I have
described. I used another computer and saw what you must be seeing. On
that other computer I can F11 to toggle image size, and I can click on
the left screen where this e image emanates. I can right click and stop
it. But, NOT on my main computer. As I have repeatedly said, this video
image emerges full screen (and not from the small left screen) with no
way of controlling it at all. Since I have the same experience with
IExplorer. WMPlayer is messed up.I have removed WMPlayer. As a result,
the left hand screen image on this horrible web site is empty, asking me
to install a plug-in.
I am reinstalling WMPlayer. I can only install WMP 11, although I would
prefer 9, but Windows refuses. I suspect I will be victimized again by
another video from some other site.
This is your quoting:
<Quote>
I created a new TEST profile.
The same thing happens.
I tried this link in IExplorer.
The same phenomenon.
</unquote>
Then you had this to say in this posting:
<quote>
I used another computer and saw what you must be seeing
</unquote>
Since the problem is happening in a test profile AND in
IE aswell, then the problem is NOT a SeaMonkey one. It
seems to be either a windows problem or the way WMP is
installed on your computer.
You can install wmp9 on winxp without problems. Get it
from here:
http://www.oldversion.com/Windows-Media-Player.html
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