vlc 0.8.6 ActiveX problem with IE

ParKiN · Postby **ParKiN** » 18 Jan 2007 15:52

Hi everybody, thanks all the developpers for the great work made for VLC, this is really a wonderful software!

Now my problem: I'm trying to play some videos (url : mms:\\azerty.wmv for example) on a website.
the code looks like this in the body tag:

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<object id="vlcAx" class="vlcAx"height="260" width="320" classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921">
    <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
    <param name="AutoStart" value="True" />
    <object  id="vlc" class="vlc" height="260" width="320" type="application/x-vlc-plugin">
        <param name="AutoStart" value="True" />
        <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
    </object>
</object>

In the head tag, i have :

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sPathVideo = "mms://sIdVideo + "_250kb.wmv";     
	            
if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
{
    vlc.style.visibility = "hidden";
    document.getElementById("vlcAx").add_item(sPathVideo);
    document.getElementById("vlcAx").set_volume(100);
    document.getElementById("vlcAx").play();
}
 else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
{
    document.getElementById("vlc").add_item(sPathVideo);
    document.getElementById("vlc").set_volume(100);
    document.getElementById("vlc").play();
}

It works perfectly with Firefox 2.0.0.1 but I try with IE 6, and I only have the cone image, the video doesn't start.
Can someone help me with that? thanks.

divx118 · Postby **divx118** » 18 Jan 2007 17:37

You could try to add the javascript in a function and call it with an onload in the body tag.

Maurice

ParKiN · Postby **ParKiN** » 18 Jan 2007 18:16

Maurice, I tried your solution but there is no change.

IE could not execute this code :

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document.getElementById("vlcAx").add_item(sPathVideo);

And I have the following error in IE :

cet objet ne gère pas cette propriété ou cette méthode

I tried with :

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document.getElementById("vlcAx").playlist.add(sPathVideo);
document.getElementById("vlcAx").playlist.play();

but I obtain another error in IE :

'document.getElementById(...).playlist' a la valeur Null ou n'est pas un objet

What can I do to play this video?
thanks.

ParKiN

divx118 · Postby **divx118** » 18 Jan 2007 18:33

Could you please post your complete code?
There are some things i noticed
sPathVideo = "mms://sIdVideo + "_250kb.wmv";

sIdVideo is that a variable if so it should be sPathVideo = "mms://" + sIdVideo + "_250kb.wmv";
And you set the <param name="AutoPlay" value="false" /> because you haven't add a video to the playlist yet.
<param name="AutoStart" value="True" /> I didn't know this parameter exist.

Maurice

ParKiN · Postby **ParKiN** » 19 Jan 2007 10:17

You're right, I made a little mistake ! sorry.

Here is my complete html page :

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<head>
    <title>Visionneuse</title>
    <script type = "text/javascript" language = "JavaScript">
    var sPathVideo;

    function bootinit() 
    {
        bFromSearch = getQueryStringByName("fs");
        var sIdVideo = getQueryStringByName("id");	
        var cstep = getQueryStringByName("cstep");
        if(cstep==2)
            sPathVideo = "mms://"+ sIdVideo + "_100kb.wmv";
        else if(cstep==3)
            sPathVideo = "mms://"+ sIdVideo + "_250kb.wmv";	
        document.getElementById("titre_video").value = getQueryStringByName("titre");         
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
        {
            vlc.style.visibility = "hidden";
            //does nothing !!!
            document.getElementById("vlcAx").add_item(sPathVideo);
            document.getElementById("vlcAx").set_volume(100);
            document.getElementById("vlcAx").play();
        }
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
        {
            document.getElementById("vlc").add_item(sPathVideo);
            document.getElementById("vlc").set_volume(100);
            document.getElementById("vlc").play();
        }	
    } 

    function Retour()
    {    	
        if (bFromSearch == "1" )
            self.location.href = "../recherche.asp?reaffiche=1";
        else
            self.location.href = "../contenu_1.htm";
    }

    function Play()
    {
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
        {
            if(document.getElementById("vlc").Playing)
                document.getElementById("vlc").pause();
            else
                document.getElementById("vlc").play();
        }
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
        {
            if(document.getElementById("vlcAx").Playing)
                document.getElementById("vlcAx").pause();
            else
                document.vlcAx.playlist.play();
        }
    }

    function Stop()
    {
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
            document.getElementById("vlc").stop();
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
            alert("pas encore supporté !");
    }

    function Fullscreen()
    {
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
            document.getElementById("vlc").fullscreen();
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
            alert("pas encore supporté !");
    }

    function incrVolume()
    {
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
        {
            if(document.getElementById("vlc").get_volume() <200)
                document.getElementById("vlc").set_volume(document.getElementById("vlc").get_volume()+20);
        }
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
            alert("pas encore supporté !");
    }

    function decrVolume()
    {
        if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("gecko") != -1)
        {
            if(document.getElementById("vlc").get_volume() > 0)                                                                                                               
                document.getElementById("vlc").set_volume(document.getElementById("vlc").get_volume()-20);           
        }
        else if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1)
            alert("pas encore supporté !");
    }
    </script>
</head>
<body onload = "bootinit()">
    <div >
        <input class = "titre_video" id = "titre_video" name = "text1" readonly = "readonly" />
    </div>
    <div >
        <object id="vlcAx" class="vlcAx" height="260" width="320" classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921">
            <param id = "AutoPlay" name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
            <param id = "AutoStart" name="AutoStart" value="True" />
            <object  id="vlc" class="vlc" height="260" width="320" type="application/x-vlc-plugin">
                <param name="AutoStart" value="True" />
                <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
            </object>
        </object>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a onclick="Retour()" href="#">Retour</a>
        <a onclick="Play()" href="#">Lecture</a>		
        <a onclick="Stop()" href="#">Stop</a>
        <a onclick="Fullscreen()" href="#">Plein écran</a>
        Volume :
        <a onclick="incrVolume()" href="#">(+)</a> 
        <a onclick="decrVolume()" href="#">(-)</a>
    </div>
</body>

Thank you for your interest.

ParKiN

divx118 · Postby **divx118** » 19 Jan 2007 18:03

You are not using the right methods for the 0.8.6 plugin see the documentation here scroll down until you reach Build HTML pages that use the plugin (version > 0.8.5.1) .
You also should look at the source of this testsite

Hope this will help you.

Maurice

wser · Postby **wser** » 25 Jan 2007 00:56

hi

I use for IE the defined plugin url from videolan such as:

"http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... /axvlc.cab"

for other browser such as mozilla see one post above.

Do you know the problem, that any user, which haven`t installled VLC yet on his client, is beeing stopped by the IE Browser Security Settings?
To solve it you have to change the Security Level to: download unsigned activeX elements (activate-not save/confirmation). This is likely difficult for users who don`t know this, and there are a lot of them, including me.

So, keep on listening

Cheers

WSER

ParKiN · Postby **ParKiN** » 25 Jan 2007 13:01

Thanks to all of you for your interest about my problem !
WSER, I already know what you're talking about, I added a little link to a webpage which explain how to change those settings in IE. I hope that customers will succeed with this!
ParKiN

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