Looking at your page code, there's one missing attribute in the EMBED tag that may do the trick: type="video/quicktime" add that and see if that does it. On 5/7/03 11:08 PM, "Robert Schoenburg" <rschoenburg at schoenburg.com> wrote: > Mark, > > I uploaded a movie and a web page. The web page references the movie. Here > is the link. > > http://www.schoenburg.com/test.asp > > The movie plays in Netscape and in Safari but not in Explorer. > > > > >> On 5/7/03 7:16 PM, "Robert Schoenburg" <rschoenburg at schoenburg.com> wrote: >> >>> I will try again. Thanks Mark. I did try something like that with no luck. >>> Interesting that Netscape and Safari open it with no problem. >> >> Do you mean Netscape and Safari open the movie if you drag it into a browser >> window when the movie is on your hard drive? That should work fine, since >> your computer knows what kind of file it is and is able to call on the >> QuickTime plugin to handle it. But a web server has to know a file-type >> (MIME) mapping for a ".mov" file (video/quicktime), and if it's not >> programmed in the server, it will spit back the generic binary format >> "application/octet-stream", which can cause problems in some situations (as >> you've seen for yourself). >> >> Hope that helps some more. ;-) >> >> - Mark >> >>> >>> >>>> That usually has to do with MIME type mappings on the web server. Usually >>>> if you ask the hosting provider to add a MIME type for you it shouldn't be >>>> a >>>> problem. You should also be able to add the MIME information if you embed >>>> the QuickTime movie in it's own HTML page, rather than linking to it >>>> directly. >>>> >>>> Here's a sample embed tag you can use as a reference: >>>> >>>> <embed width="320" height="256" >>>> pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" >>>> src="path/to/quicktime.mov" type="video/quicktime" controller="true" >>>> autoplay="true"> >>>> >>>> Note: if you have the "controller" attribute set to "true" then you need >>>> to >>>> add 16 pixels to the height of the movie to make room for the controller >>>> without causing the movie to lose proportion. >>>> >>>> There's more info on embedding QuickTime movies on web pages on Apple's >>>> site. >>>> >>>> Hope that helps. >>>> >>>> - Mark >>>> >>>> On 5/7/03 10:06 AM, "Robert Schoenburg" <rschoenburg at schoenburg.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I uploaded a QT movie and a web page. 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