<script type="text/javascript">
AC_AX_RunContent( 'id','MediaPlayer1','codebase',
'
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,0902',
'type','application/x-oleobject','height','262','standby',
'Loading Microsoft Windows MediaT Player components...',
'width','349','classid','CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95',
'viewastext','VIEWASTEXT','src',
'mms://wm.streamingmediahosting.com/midcozmediallc/svc_ec3f5baf_SID4881.wmv"',
'autostart','true','showcontrols','true','transparentatstart','false',
'filename',
'mms://wm.streamingmediahosting.com/midcozmediallc/svc_ec3f5baf_SID4881.wmv' );
//end AC code
</script>
You're right. There is an unbalanced double quote. But, the path to the WMV file is
repeated twice, and perhaps one of those is a "decorative" entry, while the other
is actually used as a file pointer ?
By golly, it is there tiwce. It was vislble in the original notepad
view, had I Iooked, but in Agent, as you probably saw, much of the
second one was past the right margin.
You would need the parameter list for "AC_AX_RunContent" to understand whether
the first one is a decoration. You would also need info, as to whether
double quote had any meaning in that context, or was treated as just an
ordinary character.
Maybe tomorrow I'll feel like looking into that. No. Tomorrow came
and I didn't look. But I did have another idea.
Couldn't I make my own webpage, in a file on my computer,, copy
everything in from this one, fixing the first url and screwing up the
second one (and after that, vice versa) , and run that in one of those
webpage programs that make testing webpages easy?
Yes, I think I could but in doing so, I got distracted by more
elementary tests.
First I took the page from the IE Source and saved it as a file, whose
name ended in test-service-video.php I wanted to test this identical
page before I made changes to it.
In IE, I used File/Open (cntl-O), and it said to type the internet
address of a document, and gave no hint that it would work with a file
on my computer. But I prefixed the file name with file;// and (I
think it added one more / to the prefix, and ) it opened it as a text
file. I couldn't get it to open as a webpage, even though the file
name ended in .php and the text was the same as the source code.
Then I went to FF, which also has cntl-O, and I've used it so I know
it will open an .html, etc. file as if it is a webpage, and I tried
the same file, which opened and played the video, just fine.
Then I tried SeaMonkey, where it opens the page, but doesn't play the
video or even display the starting frame or the go/pause etc controls
until I click on the box where the video shows up, and then it plays
just fine. (It does so in the small original-size box. There is an
instruction to click on the box to enlarge the video. I didn't think
to click again.)
Next stage was to look into modifying the file, to determine which of
the two mms links was the important one and which was decoration.
This opened a can of worms. I can't remember all the details, and I
didn't take notes, and I was sleepy at midnight Wednesday night, but
I used various editors, Notepad, Wordpad, Editpad Lite, Editpad Pro,
and maybe Sea Monkey Composer, which is meant to write webpages with
and which I already know makes all kinds of changes to what I put in
(when I was trying to write a webpage) , in order to "correct" what
I've written to match its standards of what it thinks is valid html
and javascript.**
(**I had taken the source code for fully-functioning webpages and put
them in both Sea Monkey composer and in the mediocre difficult-to-use
proprietary webpage editor (whose name I forget) that verizon
provides, and in neither would the pages work right, even though they
worked right in reality. That's when I started using reality to write
the webpage, editing in an editor and testing with Firefox. Then I
searched again and found that someone else had written the page I
planned to write, so I just stopped. )
Editpad Pro and probably Lite are also meant for writing code iiuc, at
leat when the file name extension is one used for code, and they have
different rules based on the file name extension. But I didn't think
they actually changed text that I had inserted. I thought it just
highlighted in more than one color, and indented according to what was
writtten. Even Wordpad iirc made some change -- I think that was
only adding the suffix .txt to the file name, but I got around that by
changing the file type when I first "saved as" to "all files". .
With at least one editor, the single quotes around the second mms link
were changed into double quotes!!!! And not only that, it took the
ending single quote, and changed it to two consecutive double quotes.
Now I have to start at the begining again, maybe with Notepad (which I
think is what you or Glee recommended) , because I think it won't make
changes when I'm not looking.
I wonder if some change by some editor program is how the double
double-quotes got in the source code of the page we both looked at.
I may also narrow my scope and just get it to work for my friend, who
didn't call tonight Thursday and that means he won't have any time
until Sunday night or Monday night. (He's 75 but he still works full
time.)
Micky
Your friend can paste this into