Ok. my bad on this one. I tried your suggested solution and it still didn't work. Then I tried hosting on a different server and both methods worked. I figured out that the first server had some authorization issues which blocked the playing of the file while the page was still correctly rendered.
Eric, sorry for the implication that the player doesn't work over http. regards, seba On Mar 4, 8:41 pm, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am using player plugin [1] and it works great offline. I simply keep > > files to be played in the same folder as tiddly. > > However, the player won't play when tiddly is viewed over http. > > I uploaded the entire folder and it finds the file, but it won't play > > it. > > The <<player>> macro doesn't actually do ANY of the work of loading > the URL you provide. It simply embeds a player (winmedia, real, > quicktime, or flash), and then leaves it up to the player itself to > retrieve and load the media content. > > In your case, you are providing the macro with a soruce URL using a > simple filename, "file.mp3". Unfortunately, it seems that the player > you are using (winmedia?) doesn't correctly resolve a *relative* file > reference when viewed online. I suspect that, because the URL is not > fully-qualified (i.e., includes the "http:" protocol prefix), the > plugin is still attempting to open a *local* file. > > Of course, you could fix this by using an http://... URL, but then you > couldn't play a *local* file when offline, since it would always point > at the online resource. > > Fortunately, there is a solution: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#AttachFilePlugin > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#AttachFilePluginInfo > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#AttachFilePluginFormatters > > With AttachFilePlugin, you can create 'attachment tiddlers' that > define 'virtualized' file references for local *and* remote > locations. You can then use the attachment tiddler name in place of > the filename in the <<player>> macro. When viewed via http:, the > attachment-defined remote URL location is used... when viewed > locally, the local file location is used. > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios > ---------- > Was this answer useful? If so, please help support TiddlyTools: > > TiddlyTools direct contributions: (paypal) > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Donate > UnaMesa tax-deductible contributions: > http://about.unamesa.org/Participate(paypal) > TiddlyWiki consulting: > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ELSDesignStudios > http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
