[Ti] Safari cannot find the internet plug-in

[Sambouka]

Trevor,

Does QT or WMP even launch in Safari when you try to open the music 
file? Sadly, I have found that QT and WMP are not reliable media 
players to depend on. I have MPLAYER as well as VLAN installed, both 
have their pros and cons.

I would like QT to come with a complete bundle of codecs, without 
having to download a codec every time i want to watch a movie.

Sam
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On Mar 26, 2004, at 1:27 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> At 20:25 +0000 25/3/04, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>> On 25 Mar 2004, at 18:02, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am running Safari 1.2.1 (V 125.1) under OS 10.3.3 on my Al-15" 
>>> Powerbook.
>>>
>>> I was trying to access a music video on a website and I got the 
>>> message:
>>>
>>> 	Safari cannot find the internet plug-in
>>>
>>> 	The page has the content of the MIME type "application/x-oleobject".
>>> 	Because you don't have a plug-in installled for this MIME type,
>>> 	this content can't be displayed.
>>
>> OK this looks to be some kind of streaming video content.
>>
>> This can either be viewed via a plugin or via an application. since 
>> it says oleobject -- I will guess that this is a Windows Media File 
>> so you will need:
>>
>> Windows Media Player for the mac to view it. You can download it for 
>> free from somewhere in the vicinity of www.microsoft.com. (this is 
>> the application that just got M$ a ¤500m fine at the European 
>> courts.)
>>
>> Try downloading this and then viewing it again. You may need to tell 
>> Safari that the "helper application" it needs is WM player.
>
> Tarik -I also suspected that it is WMP file/content.
> However, I already have WMP 9.0 installed, for many months.
>
> As I said, I thought I was fully configured.
>
> HOW do I tell Safari to use WMP ?
>
> Now I am suspecting the web-page, having read this:
>
> 	Using the <Embed> Element
> 	to Embed Media in a Web Page
>
>  	Although HTML DTD validates <object> only in order to embed media  
> objects
> 	in a web page, using this <object> element entails a  cross-browser 
> limitation. For
> 	instance, if you want to present media in any  type of browsers 
> (Netscape and
> 	Opera don't support Active X controls), you have  to incorporate an 
> <embed> tag
> 	between the pair of <object>  tags.
>
> I think this means that if you do not follow this advice, other 
> browsers (iother than Internet exploder) cannot interpret the code.
>
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