XP not playing back mpegs....

[Rod]

Hi, since upgrading to XP Home I have not been able to play the mpegs on our
web site. The windows media player opens but clicking on play has no effect.
I've checked on a machine using Win98se and the video plays ok. Friends and
family with XP also tell me they too cant see the video. Is this something
to do with the html?

<object id="Player1" height="280" width="500"
classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="uiMode" value="on">
<param name="URL" value="videoone.mpg">
<param name="autoStart" value="false">
{Click <a href="videoone.mpg">here<a/> for movie}</object>

Many thanks...
Rod

[Tom Porterfield]

In article >,
says...
> Hi, since upgrading to XP Home I have not been able to play the mpegs on our
> web site. The windows media player opens but clicking on play has no effect.
> I've checked on a machine using Win98se and the video plays ok. Friends and
> family with XP also tell me they too cant see the video. Is this something
> to do with the html?
>
> <object id="Player1" height="280" width="500"
> classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
> <param name="uiMode" value="on">
> <param name="URL" value="videoone.mpg">
> <param name="autoStart" value="false">
> {Click <a href="videoone.mpg">here<a/> for movie}</object>

Testing here, if I remove the <param name="uiMode" value="on"> it then
works fine. Not an expert on programming media player objects so I can't
say exactly what is wrong with that param, only that it causes it not to
work on my XP.
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[Rod]

> > Hi, since upgrading to XP Home I have not been able to play the mpegs
on our
> > web site. The windows media player opens but clicking on play has no
effect.
> > I've checked on a machine using Win98se and the video plays ok.
Friends and
> > family with XP also tell me they too cant see the video. Is this
something
> > to do with the html?
> >
> > <object id="Player1" height="280" width="500"
> > classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
> > <param name="uiMode" value="on">
> > <param name="URL" value="videoone.mpg">
> > <param name="autoStart" value="false">
> > {Click <a href="videoone.mpg">here<a/> for movie}</object>
>
> Testing here, if I remove the <param name="uiMode" value="on"> it then
> works fine. Not an expert on programming media player objects so I
can't
> say exactly what is wrong with that param, only that it causes it not to
> work on my XP.

Yes that works. Many thanks. Like you say I dont know why that works in
98se and not in XP.