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thomthom

I'm resurrecting this thread beacause I need a favour. BTW thanks Gai for the free advertising!

When I first launched my webinars I placed the sample video on my website and I wrote the html myself to run it. Now I don't know html formally and despite that I have been making corrections and changes to my webpages for 5 years. Sometimes I get into trouble, like potentially with this video demo page.
Most people had no problem running it but I did get reports, from this forum in fact, that some people wre unable to run it.
I have had a professional revise the code for me but we do need the page tested. If you would be good enough to test the page and report any issues, I would be very grateful. Thanks much guys.

http://www.entouragearts.com/webinar.html

Firefox displays an empty page. Only IE seems to work.

sorgesu

Thanks much. I'll get on it.

I've temporarily replaced it with the old version, which does work

sorgesu

Okay,
Active on the site is my old code: http://www.entouragearts.com/webinar.html

on a hidden page is the new professional code: http://www.entouragearts.com/webinarNorm.html

If I could ask you guys to try both and report to me any problems with either specifying the browser you are using? Many many thanks.

Dik Harrison

Both made FireFox unstable and it crashed.

Was able to see the video with this one "on a hidden page is the new professional code: http://www.entouragearts.com/webinarNorm.html", but had to "Launch in external player".

The first one didn't work with Chrome, but again could "Launch in external player" with the professional coded page.

sorgesu

Thanks for that Dik. They both work fine for me in Firefox.
Can you tell me if you are on Vista or XP?

My pro basically washed his hands of this, not wanting to take more time.He coded it so it would require an external player. He originally gave me a link for a Plug In for Firefox that people would have to download first before opening my link but I think that is inefficient and was looking for an auto download from within the script. So looks like I'm stuck with the one with the external player.

sorgesu

Given that Dik has identified that the professional version is at least preferable in Firefox, I have replaced the link on the site with that version. There is now only a single link to test if you would all be so kind. Please and thank you.
http://www.entouragearts.com/webinar.html

Gaieus

It displays fine on my Firefox at work (although I cannot check the sound as I don't have speakers on this machine).

All in all, Flash would be the most cross platform and cross browser solution IMO.

plot-paris

it worked for me without problem on Chrome. for InternetExplorer I merely had to activate an activeX element to make it work. (both video and sound).
I had to wait for some 20 seconds though for it to load the first bit, but didn't get any status bar of how much was loaded. if someone is impatient, he may not wait long enough for the video to load.

I tried it on XP and will do another test on Vista (with Firefox, IE and Chrome) tonight.

thomthom

@gaieus said:

All in all, Flash would be the most cross platform and cross browser solution IMO.

Yup, agreed.

sorgesu

Thanks so much guys. I can't do it in flash. It was recorded using the webinar software tools that I use and they do not provide a flash format that can be embedded into an html page. My web guy converted the mwv file to flash but he said the sound then became very tinny. Ah the trials and tribulations.

thanks so much again.

Dik Harrison

@plot-paris said:

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I had to wait for some 20 seconds though for it to load the first bit, but didn't get any status bar of how much was loaded. if someone is impatient, he may not wait long enough for the video to load.

Yep, that's me impatient. No way I would have waited 20 minutes for it to load, even if there was something to tell me that it was actually doing something.

sorgesu

dik, I wouldn't post a clip that took 20 minutes to load.
He said 20 seconds. That isn't even a universal experience and is individual ISP provider and timing dependant. Not much one can do about that

Dik Harrison

That is what I get for trying to read with too little sleep...

plot-paris

ok. at home, with windows vista it doesn't work at all as an embedded version. only the external player plays back the video.

sorgesu

Thanks so much Jakob. I guess I will have to content myself with that since I have been "fired" as a customer.
Thank you all so very much for your help.