Windows Media Player not play video

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Registered: Mar 2012
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Hi, first, I have to appreciate great work you've done on this amazing library.

I would like to consult problem with video display in WMP object. Video file comes in response, but WMP goes thrue states "Opening media" and "Ready", but video not runs and nothing displays.

I have java server (Tomcat) and servlet serving media from JCR. All media works great (FLV, MOV, MPEG, JPG, PNG, etc.), but WMV files not. I've spent two days looking for some solution, but nothing works. So I'am in state when i get same response headers (in different order) and data as you do in demo page only difference in version of HTTP, you get 1.0 and me 1.1. Is it problem for WMP? Do you know about some possibility how to debug or see the log of WMP component?

Thank you for help. Best regards, Jan.
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Registered: Aug 2008
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I don't have a lot I can offer you here other than sympathy. In my experience, WMP is the most troublesome plugin, and I'm not surprised you are having trouble with it.

Floatbox doesn't do any magic with video. It simply writes the correct <object> code into the fbContent div and lets the associated plugin or add-on player take over from there. It sounds like the failure to play occurs after the plugin has taken over. I don't have any particular expertise in debugging different media files in different plugins.

What I can give is the object code that Floatbox writes to the fbContent div. It might be a good idea to place this code directly on a test page and leave Floatbox out of the debug picture altogether. If you do this, and find that any tweaks or changes to the object code makes your video happy, I would very much like to hear the details.

If you are able to provide a public URL to the troublesome video, I wouldn't mind taking a look at it and seeing if I can make any progress lighting it up.

ActiveX (IE) object code:
<object id="fbMedia" width="100%" height="100%" classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"><param name="autoStart" value="1"/><param name="showControls" value="1"/><param name="showDisplay" value="0"/><param name="showStatusBar" value="0"/><param name="loop" value="0"/><param name="animationAtStart" value="1"/><param name="transparentAtStart" value="0"/><param name="url" value="http://localhost/content/big_slip.wmv"/><embed type="application/x-mplayer2" src="http://localhost/content/big_slip.wmv" width="100%" height="100%" autoStart="1" showControls="1" showDisplay="0" showStatusBar="0" loop="0" animationAtStart="1" transparentAtStart="0" url="http://localhost/content/big_slip.wmv" pluginspage="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-media-player"></embed></object>

Plugin (non-IE) object code:
<object id="fbMedia" width="100%" height="100%" type="application/x-mplayer2" data="http://localhost/content/big_slip.wmv"><param name="autoStart" value="1"/><param name="showControls" value="1"/><param name="showDisplay" value="0"/><param name="showStatusBar" value="0"/><param name="loop" value="0"/><param name="animationAtStart" value="1"/><param name="transparentAtStart" value="0"/><embed type="application/x-mplayer2" src="http://localhost/content/big_slip.wmv" width="100%" height="100%" autoStart="1" showControls="1" showDisplay="0" showStatusBar="0" loop="0" animationAtStart="1" transparentAtStart="0" pluginspage="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-media-player"></embed></object>
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Registered: Sep 2011
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Have you tried ..

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >

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