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Unwanted video clip dialogue boxes

ruperty

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

Hi,

I have some embedded video clips on a web page,
http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/Win...0Life/index.php

But for each clip a dialogue box comes up in IE which says, "Click to
run ActiveX control on this webpage"

Does anyone know how I can stop these boxes being presented to the
visitors?

Here's an example of the embedded code,

<OBJECT classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
width="160" height="160"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src"
value="http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/Windsor/Windsor%20Life/image/1970.3gpp">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="false">
<EMBED
src="http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/Windsor/Windsor%20Life/image/1970.3gpp"
width="160" height="160" autoplay="false" controller="true"
loop="false"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"></EMBED></OBJECT>

Regards,
Rupert
http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/

Mark Goodge

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

On 12 Nov 2006 08:57:55 -0800, ruperty put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>Hi,
>
>I have some embedded video clips on a web page,
>http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/Win...0Life/index.php
>
>But for each clip a dialogue box comes up in IE which says, "Click to
>run ActiveX control on this webpage"
>
>Does anyone know how I can stop these boxes being presented to the
>visitors?

You can't. Allowing an ActiveX control to run without the explicit
confirmation of the user would be an unacceptable security risk.

Mark
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ruperty

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

Mark Goodge wrote:

> You can't. Allowing an ActiveX control to run without the explicit
> confirmation of the user would be an unacceptable security risk.

But it doesn't happen with Netscape.

Is there another way around the IE problem?

Regards,
Rupert
http://www.mobiletravelogue.com

Mark Goodge

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

On 12 Nov 2006 12:16:42 -0800, ruperty put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>
>Mark Goodge wrote:
>
>
>But it doesn't happen with Netscape.

That's because Netscape isn't running ActiveX at all.

There are two separate instances of the video in your page, one in the
<object> and one in the <embed>. IE is using the <object>, which runs
the ActiveX control (hence the refence to a .cab file in the
codebase). Netscape is using the <embed> section, which doesn't use
ActiveX but does require the user to have already installed the
Quicktime plugin.

The problem with <embed>, though, is that it isn't part of the HTML
standard - it's a Netscape extension (although supported by some other
browsers). So you can't rely on it if you want cross-browser
compatibility.

>Is there another way around the IE problem?

Use a different type of plugin that doesn't require ActiveX.

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Gwin

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

ruperty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some embedded video clips on a web page,
> http://www.mobiletravelogue.com/Win...0Life/index.php
>
> But for each clip a dialogue box comes up in IE which says, "Click to
> run ActiveX control on this webpage"
>
> Does anyone know how I can stop these boxes being presented to the
> visitors?

yes, convert them all to streaming flash and deliver with a simple,
fast loading flash player in the page. you can make one in about 10
minutes. encoding the mov's and stuff goes fast too.

btw, your video, 3rd down is autostarting and creating a heavy load on
initial page access.

ruperty

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

Gwin wrote:
> yes, convert them all to streaming flash and deliver with a simple,

That sounds good, thanks. I'm not familiar with flash, would you point
me in the right direction for how to do this?

Regards,
Rupert
http://www.mobiletravelogue.com

Gwin

2006-11-19, 7:58 pm

ruperty wrote:
> Gwin wrote:
>
> That sounds good, thanks. I'm not familiar with flash, would you point
> me in the right direction for how to do this?
>
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
get flash 8. i think you get 30 days free with it.
when it loads, create new flash doc, then under file, import video.
the options will come up.

you can choose controls, etc, or simply use any flash player to play
the flv.
here's one. http://jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player