Sound

[Graham]

I can't hear the sound from my website on my Vista Home Premium, I can hear
other sound sources like youtube. I checked I can still hear my sounds on
XP. A friend with Vista (Ultimate) can hear my website, he said he had
trouble getting Java to work properly in the beginning. Lost me there ;-)
Graham
www.hutson.nl

 

[Charlie Tame]

I can't hear the sound from my website on my Vista Home Premium, I can hear
other sound sources like youtube. I checked I can still hear my sounds on
XP. A friend with Vista (Ultimate) can hear my website, he said he had
trouble getting Java to work properly in the beginning. Lost me there ;-)
Graham
www.hutson.nl

I don't have time to look properly now Graham but for me the site came
up as a source code listing and I didn't see any closing </body> tags
and maybe that's why - or something else with the HTML code. It is
possible that XP / IE is filling in a blank somewhere that Vista / IE is
not, and behaving according to the error.

Playing website sound can be a bit tricky so maybe it would help to
state what you used to author the site.

 

[Graham]

I don't have time to look properly now Graham but for me the site came up
as a source code listing and I didn't see any closing </body> tags and
maybe that's why - or something else with the HTML code. It is possible
that XP / IE is filling in a blank somewhere that Vista / IE is not, and
behaving according to the error.

Playing website sound can be a bit tricky so maybe it would help to state
what you used to author the site.

Sorry I should have posted the original URL not the frameset link.
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/home.htm
When I was building the site some American Netscape users complained that
they could not hear my sound, I was using BGsound and Netscape couldn't hear
it, so I changed it to....

<object
height="1px"
width="1px"
classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<param name="AutoStart" value="1"/>
<param name="loop" value="-1">
<param name="FileName" value="four.wav"/>
</object>

But I checked yesterday on another (friends) group and everyone could hear
me including the guy with Vista. And I can hear me on XP. But to check I put
up a

<embed src="four.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">
</embed>

And the same, I could hear it on XP, not Vista. So it is not the html. Or is
it? I can hear youtube and cricket on the BBC website so! BTW I am using IE7
on both computers. I have to go out this morning but I am going to install
Firebox on my Vista machine to see if I get sound on that. Last night I
installed Java SE6, made no difference.
Graham

 

[Graham]

Sorry I should have posted the original URL not the frameset link.
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/home.htm
When I was building the site some American Netscape users complained that
they could not hear my sound, I was using BGsound and Netscape couldn't
hear it, so I changed it to....

<object
height="1px"
width="1px"
classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<param name="AutoStart" value="1"/>
<param name="loop" value="-1">
<param name="FileName" value="four.wav"/>
</object>

But I checked yesterday on another (friends) group and everyone could hear
me including the guy with Vista. And I can hear me on XP. But to check I
put up a

<embed src="four.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">
</embed>

And the same, I could hear it on XP, not Vista. So it is not the html. Or
is it? I can hear youtube and cricket on the BBC website so! BTW I am
using IE7 on both computers. I have to go out this morning but I am going
to install Firebox on my Vista machine to see if I get sound on that. Last
night I installed Java SE6, made no difference.
Graham

I seem to be posting a thread on my own to myself;-)
I have downloaded Firefox to Vista and still no sound.
I have two pages with two different html's, both I can hear on my XP laptop,
neither on Vista/IE or Vista/Firefox.
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.htm
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.html
So it isn't java or IE7 causing the problem, nor my speakers, so what is?
Graham

 

[Charlie Tame]

I seem to be posting a thread on my own to myself;-)
I have downloaded Firefox to Vista and still no sound.
I have two pages with two different html's, both I can hear on my XP
laptop, neither on Vista/IE or Vista/Firefox.
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.htm
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.html
So it isn't java or IE7 causing the problem, nor my speakers, so what is?
Graham

Well I think the <embed> should work for everybody including netscape,
BGSOUND is IE only and the other method is ACTIVEX which some people and
non MS users won't get. I think it's odd that you are not getting any
kind of error message.

 

[Charlie Tame]

I seem to be posting a thread on my own to myself;-)
I have downloaded Firefox to Vista and still no sound.
I have two pages with two different html's, both I can hear on my XP
laptop, neither on Vista/IE or Vista/Firefox.
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.htm
http://members.chello.nl/j.hutson/brickwall.html
So it isn't java or IE7 causing the problem, nor my speakers, so what is?
Graham

Okay, loaded Vista 64 and it asked me to press space or enter
"To use this control" so I guess the Activex player worked. Also asked
for permission to run the Java machine but I didn't see what difference
that made apart from the stupid prompt

This was the second link above.

Then I tried the first link and the "Press
space or enter" thing came up again but the music played anyway, even
before I hit it.

The Dulcimer page also worked (After pressing Space) but I had the
Devil's own job getting there since Vista demanded my input TWICE for
Java and then refused to accept your site's certificate.

So I don't know what your problem is apart from Vista behaving stupidly.