Here’s my issue.
I edit video in FinalCut Express.
Then I export to windows media player.
Put the video in my page and upload.
When I upload the movie is a quicktime again. Any thoughts?
Here’s one example:
www.fennvalley.com/Events/Event%20Menu/Standard%20Events/winemakersdinner.html
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I looked at the source code and found this:
FW_WriteObject(“Resources/FV%20ethinc.wmv”, “360”, “267”, “”, “false”, “quicktime”, “FVopenhouse”, “”, “autoplay”, “true”, “loop”, “false”, “controller”, “false”);
As you can see it’s a .wmv file. Why does it upload a quicktime file?
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Do you have the Flip4Mac components installed on your Mac? QuickTime
may have taken charge of the WMV file-type, and Freeway gets its
“what do I do with this file” info from the Finder, which would take
whatever QuickTime said as authoritative.
Sounds like a bit of ‘whisper down the lane’, or ‘telephone’, or
whatever you call the party game where everyone whispers a phrase
from one ear to the next and it gets amazingly distorted in transit.
Walter
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:19 PM, duotone wrote:
I looked at the source code and found this:
FW_WriteObject(“Resources/FV%20ethinc.wmv”, “360”, “267”, “”,
“false”, “quicktime”, “FVopenhouse”, “”, “autoplay”, “true”,
“loop”, “false”, “controller”, “false”);As you can see it’s a .wmv file. Why does it upload a quicktime file?
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Looks like the program changed in 5.1 - 5.1.1:
“Freeway now recognized MP4, AVI, WMV and M4V (iPhone compatible movie) files as QuickTime content”
Eeeks!
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Yes I have Flip4Mac Pro installed.
Freeway better not recognize WMV files as quicktime!!
Seriously, I have clients pissed off now. What’s up? I’m sorry for being testy, but if what Mitchell says is true freeway has some issues.
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Wow. I’m a bit shocked.
From the release notes> Freeway now recognized MP4, AVI, WMV and M4V (iPhone compatible movie) files as QuickTime content
My only question is WHY?!?!
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Can I down grade? Or should I learn another web app?
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Ok, this is getting worse.
My clients are telling me that their browsers lock up when trying to see the pages with video. I have confirmed that it’s not just one client, or one person, it’s ALL my clients and non clients on windows computers. Their browsers lock up and then quit.
I’m not a person who gets worked up, but THIS MUST BE FIXED SOFTPRESS PEOPLE!! Sorry to yell but this was a bad move and I need a fix ASAP.
Tony
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Have a look at this page, and decide which of these mime-types you
would prefer to use for your wmv files:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288102
Then, click once on your movie in Freeway, select Item / Extended
from the main menu. Click on the Embed tab of the dialog, and then
click on New. In the sub-dialog, enter
type
audio/x-ms-wmv
(or choose a different mime-type if your content is different) Okay
out of the stack of dialogs and re-publish. Ask your unenlightened
Windows users to try again.
This is a temporary patch, until Softpress can sort this out for real.
Walter
On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:36 AM, duotone wrote:
Ok, this is getting worse.
My clients are telling me that their browsers lock up when trying
to see the pages with video. I have confirmed that it’s not just
one client, or one person, it’s ALL my clients and non clients on
windows computers. Their browsers lock up and then quit.I’m not a person who gets worked up, but THIS MUST BE FIXED
SOFTPRESS PEOPLE!! Sorry to yell but this was a bad move and I need
a fix ASAP.Tony
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The following embed code would work with both Flip4Mac on Macs and WMP
on Windows. I REALLY wish Softpress would do this as a “plugin” as
they do for Quicktime. There also needs to be an easier way (or step
by step FAQ) to embed an SWF player linked to FLV
Craig Seeman
3rd Planet Video
Do not use the Windows Media Player ActiveX class ID, or tag
when creating your embedded control. It does not work on all browsers.
Instead, use the tag with the mime-type “application/x-
mplayer2”. Here is sample code for embedding Windows Media Player in
your HTML page:
<embed type=“application/x-mplayer2”
src="[…the path to your content…] "
showStatusBar="[true/false]"
showControls="[true/false]"
kioskmode="[true/false]"
height="[player height] "
width="[player width] "
scale=“ASPECT”
Different browsers respond to the “showStatusBar” and “showControls”
attributes differently. Using IE in Windows, these attributes work as
their name implies, but in Firefox (Windows and Mac) and Safari (Mac
only), selecting either attribute causes the controller bar to
display. The “kioskmode” flag is a Flip4Mac WMV extension from the
QuickTime SDK that allows a content author to restrict how the user
consumes their content. Setting this flag disables the “Save As”
feature, and, if set, ignores the users preference to launch the
QuickTime player rather than play content in an embedded window.
On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Have a look at this page, and decide which of these mime-types you
would prefer to use for your wmv files:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288102
Then, click once on your movie in Freeway, select Item / Extended
from the main menu. Click on the Embed tab of the dialog, and then
click on New. In the sub-dialog, entertype
audio/x-ms-wmv
(or choose a different mime-type if your content is different) Okay
out of the stack of dialogs and re-publish. Ask your unenlightened
Windows users to try again.This is a temporary patch, until Softpress can sort this out for real.
Walter
On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:36 AM, duotone wrote:
Ok, this is getting worse.
My clients are telling me that their browsers lock up when trying
to see the pages with video. I have confirmed that it’s not just
one client, or one person, it’s ALL my clients and non clients on
windows computers. Their browsers lock up and then quit.I’m not a person who gets worked up, but THIS MUST BE FIXED
SOFTPRESS PEOPLE!! Sorry to yell but this was a bad move and I need
a fix ASAP.Tony
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So do I need to tell freeway people about this?
Seriously, NO windows users can see the videos, and the quicktime steps don’t help…
This who thing is messed up. I want to know why softpress decided to do this?
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Walt,
Thanks but it still isn’t working.
Please check: www.glhomefurnishings.com/nationalretailer.html
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I don’t see anything on the page but I see these links in the source
Resources/nroy%20randy.wmv
Resources/windows%20export.wmv
But i cannot see the file even directly from this path.
Try again with no spaces in the file names.
David
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Thanks. Now try… I removed spaces in the file names.
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I had to make some changes to the page we’ve been looking at because my client is really getting pissed off.
Please go to this page and click on one of the images on the left to see a video… these are not viewable on windows.
http://www.glhomefurnishings.com/lifestyle.html
I exported and placed as WMV files, did what walter told me to do, I removed the spaces in the file names, and STILL they don’t work on windows.
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Sounds frustrating. Perhaps you may have to go in manually and adjust this till Softpress adjusts it. I wonder if you went in with TextWrangler (on your pop-up) page and removed the “quicktime” from the line of movie code and then tried it. So your code would read:
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[ FW_WriteObject("Resources/lakeshoreextended.wmv","365","360","","false","lakeshoreextended1","","autoplay","true","loop","false","controller","false","type","audio/x-ms-wmv");//]]>
The only other option I see is to just use Quicktime movies. Not hard to convert those files using VisualHub.
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Hi Tony,
this is very annoying. Did you inform SP officially? Just in case to fill the time-gap (till SP offers a solution): Could it be an idea to convert the files to flash with one of the Verticalmoon tools?
iwo
Am 16.06.2008 um 21:05 schrieb duotone:
I had to make some changes to the page we’ve been looking at because my client is really getting pissed off.
Please go to this page and click on one of the images on the left to see a video… these are not viewable on windows.
http://www.glhomefurnishings.com/lifestyle.html
I exported and placed as WMV files, did what walter told me to do, I removed the spaces in the file names, and STILL they don’t work on windows.
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Mitchell said:
if you went in with TextWrangler (on your pop-up) page and removed the “quicktime” from the line of movie code and then tried it.
Rather than that use Source Code Snooper
And yes in IE7 it does lock up viewing the latest page of videos - when they open in the pop up windows.
Can you also change your Output to More Readable please
Interestingly when I went directly to the file…Resources/lakeshoreextended.wmv it opened in Windows Media Player and played OK.
Is this an option - link directly to the file on the server? As a temporary thing.
David
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Thanks all for your replies.
Yes I notified SP via their online form. Though I haven’t heard from them yet. Errrrrr.
I re-uploaded some movies as MP4 files and my client can view them on windows computers. So my temp fix is to make everything mp4’s for now.
I’m am VERY annoyed at the fact SP just decided to convert WMV files to quicktime, and what makes matters worse is that the conversion doesn’t seem to work.
Rant over for now 
Tony
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Hi Tony
I know you have other things on your mind right now but your viewers might find it helpful if you created poster frames for your videos so that they get some indication of what they are letting themselves in for.
And the video Resources/nroyrandy.wmv is obviously still not a mp4 but you are probably going to do that one 1st thing in the am as you should be in your bed at the moment.
David
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