UNC File won't play in embedded control

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UNC File won't play in embedded control

Postby SteveRicketts » 12 Dec 2010 23:26

I have VLC embedded in a web page and when I give it a UNC file name, it won't play. I've tried \\server\d\myfile.wmv and file://\\server\d\myfile.wmv, neither work. These play from the VLC GUI but not when it's embedded... how can I make this work? I've tried this in 1.0.5 and 1.1.5.

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Re: UNC File won't play in embedded control

Postby Ilasir » 20 Dec 2010 02:27

Where is the html page?

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Re: UNC File won't play in embedded control

Postby SteveRicketts » 10 Jan 2011 20:47

Well, the actual page is not accessible from the internet. It's an Windows web server, IIS 7, on my internal server. Here is the web page code if that helps.

<object id="VLC" classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921"
pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org"
version="VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2"
width="320px" height="240px" events="True">
<param name="src" value="\\Server2008\d\OnDemand/CADE 101_188_3.wmv"/>
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
<param name="AutoLoop" value="no"/>
<param name="AutoPlay" value="true"/>
<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin"
autoplay="yes" loop="false"
id="VLC"
pluginspage="http://www.videolan.org" version="VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2"
width="320" height="240"
target="\\Server2008\d\OnDemand/CADE 101_188_3.wmv"
>
</embed>
</object>

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Re: UNC File won't play in embedded control

Postby jack.ting » 10 Feb 2011 10:33

If you are accessing by windows share, you better make a driver map, then use something like "f:\folder\folder\filename.ext".
or
something like "file:///f:/folder/folder/filename.ext" (sure, 3 "/" after "file:" )
or
try something like "file:///server/sharefolder/subfolder/filename.ext" (this one i'm not sure)

Make sure there no unicode character in the path string, otherwise you've encode it by encodeURI().


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