wkitty42
19th of January 2007 (Fri), 11:11
i just wanted to take a minute to relate a recent battle i had with eE... pekka has come up with a method of putting videos into eE and it seems to work well (for the most part)... however, i had a problem with putting wmv's online... well, they were uploading just fine just like several other video formats i've gotten put up but the wmv's just weren't working when i tried to view them from my workstation...
i did "this" and i did "that" but nothing worked... i even went so far as to write another wrapper that was completely stripped down and still had no luck... the embedded player always told me that it couldn't load the filter... i switched between ftp obfuscation and not with no effect on my problem but i did locate another problem in that area...
anyway, i finally noticed that the embedded player i was seeing was the old wmp v6 type stuff... but wait... i have wmp v9 installed on this win98se box... /me scratches head... perhaps i missed something when rebuilding the workstation after that crash a while back? nah... everything else works...
so i start googling and researching... what's this? i found some wrapper code that doesn't use those st00pid CLSID things with their long strings of numbers... that works on other stations but not this one... keep on googling...
hummm... i use firefox and found a link to dealing with problems with embedded wmp and firefox... one fix was to upload a registry fix... another was to boot to safemode and remove wmp9... i did both... first uploading the registry fix and then the safemode removal... however, i also ran a couple of my registry cleaners while in safemode... one of them cleared out over 300 invalid registry entries... a lot, as expected, were related to wmp9...
once that job was all done, i booted back to "normal" mode and immediately installed wmp9... wha la! now the embedded player has the wmp9 skin so something is closer to being right... let's try that video... hummm... still not working... oh yeah, check that ftp obfuscation setting... it was on... switch it off and try again... yeah! now i can see the video... ummm, in all the flailing about, i better check to see which wrapper i'm using... ahh... it was the one without the CLSID requirement... better put that back to factory original and test it again... yeah! it works...
so, all this time whilst i've been trying to work out why i wasn't able to get wmv's working on my site, it wasn't my site at all... it was my local workstation... this realization didn't hit me until my frustration level rose high enough that i went to another station and tried it from there only to see it with the "proper" embedded player...
Sokath, his eyes open!
i did "this" and i did "that" but nothing worked... i even went so far as to write another wrapper that was completely stripped down and still had no luck... the embedded player always told me that it couldn't load the filter... i switched between ftp obfuscation and not with no effect on my problem but i did locate another problem in that area...
anyway, i finally noticed that the embedded player i was seeing was the old wmp v6 type stuff... but wait... i have wmp v9 installed on this win98se box... /me scratches head... perhaps i missed something when rebuilding the workstation after that crash a while back? nah... everything else works...
so i start googling and researching... what's this? i found some wrapper code that doesn't use those st00pid CLSID things with their long strings of numbers... that works on other stations but not this one... keep on googling...
hummm... i use firefox and found a link to dealing with problems with embedded wmp and firefox... one fix was to upload a registry fix... another was to boot to safemode and remove wmp9... i did both... first uploading the registry fix and then the safemode removal... however, i also ran a couple of my registry cleaners while in safemode... one of them cleared out over 300 invalid registry entries... a lot, as expected, were related to wmp9...
once that job was all done, i booted back to "normal" mode and immediately installed wmp9... wha la! now the embedded player has the wmp9 skin so something is closer to being right... let's try that video... hummm... still not working... oh yeah, check that ftp obfuscation setting... it was on... switch it off and try again... yeah! now i can see the video... ummm, in all the flailing about, i better check to see which wrapper i'm using... ahh... it was the one without the CLSID requirement... better put that back to factory original and test it again... yeah! it works...
so, all this time whilst i've been trying to work out why i wasn't able to get wmv's working on my site, it wasn't my site at all... it was my local workstation... this realization didn't hit me until my frustration level rose high enough that i went to another station and tried it from there only to see it with the "proper" embedded player...
Sokath, his eyes open!