simple movie code - CLASSID question

siouxb · #1 (**permalink**) Oct 13th, 2007, 01:25

Hi,

I was given this simple page code by a friend who is using it and it works perfectly for him. It is supposed to simply call a .mov file and put it in the middle of a black page. I've tried everything I can think of including taking out the meta and title code but I can't get it to work. All of my name and dimension parameters are correct. It seems to me that the problem has to be the CLASSID code but I don't know how to fix it, and I was wondering if the fix could be a generic fix so that I can share the code with other friends.

Thank you very much in advance!

Susan

Here is the page where it is working for my friend.

http://www.justinsmithportfolio.com/...soobvious.html

Here is my html page:

http://www.dreamaiden.com/movies/Reflections.html

My movie is in the same 'movies' folder.

Here is the code:

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<html>?<head>?<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />?<title>Reflections</title>
</head>?<body bgcolor="#000000">?<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%">?<tr>?<td align="center" valign="middle">?<object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="480" height="270" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">?<param name="src" value="Reflections.mov">?<param name="autoplay" value="true">?<param name="loop" value="false">?<param name="controller" value="true">?<embed src="Reflections.mov" width="480" height="270" autoplay="true" loop="false" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></embed>?</object>?</td>?</tr>?</table>?</body>?</html>

Marc · #2 (**permalink**) Oct 14th, 2007, 17:15

Ok

I see what's happened. Are you posting this into design view of dreamweaver because if you are, delete it all and switch to CODE view and paste this:

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Reflections</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="480" height="270" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="Reflections.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<embed src="Reflections.mov" width="480" height="270" autoplay="true" loop="false" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></embed>
</object>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Good luck!

siouxb · #3 (**permalink**) Oct 14th, 2007, 17:30

Hi Marc

Thanks for replying. Sadly this is not the answer! I see here that this forum has actually changed my code, adding ? in the spaces, etc. The code is correct as far as that goes. I even thought of what you are talking about.

Inititally I just uploaded the Text Edit document which is the straight code. That should have worked but all I got was a white page of code. I was hoping that would work so I could share the code with friends but it didn't.

I think tried what you just suggested- I copied/pasted the code into Source Code view of GoLive. That gave me a black page as it was supposed to and it put the QT icon in the middle like it was supposed to but it didn't AutoPlay=true. I could probably force it to work by creating the entire page in GoLive to begin with but I really wanted to know why this isn't working and if there was a solution so I could share the straight code with others.

I think it's the CLASSID code. It is supposed to tell it where to get the movie from I think. I also think I read that maybe a program like GoLive has to generate that CLASSID code. This is just not my forte and I was hoping someone would know.

Thank you for taking the time and trying to help !!

Susan

Marc · #4 (**permalink**) Oct 14th, 2007, 17:33

If you look at the source code, you will see that is the reason why it isnt working. You need to re-paste the code above into a CODE view - not design. If you post it in the design view it renders as so:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
  <title>Untitled Document</title>
  <meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer">
  <meta name="CocoaVersion" content="824.41">
  <style type="text/css">
    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times}
    span.s1 {font: 12.0px Lucida Grande}
  </style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="p1">&lt;html&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;head&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;title&gt;Reflections&lt;/title&gt;</p>
<p class="p1">&lt;/head&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;body bgcolor="#000000"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="100%"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;tr&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;td align="center" valign="middle"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="480" height="270" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;param name="src" value="Reflections.mov"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;param name="autoplay" value="true"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;param name="loop" value="false"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;param name="controller" value="true"&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;embed src="Reflections.mov" width="480" height="270" autoplay="true" loop="false" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/object&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/td&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/tr&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/table&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/body&gt;<span class="s1"><br>
</span>&lt;/html&gt;</p>
</body>
</html>

the < and > is why it isnt working. Check it out for yourself, please!

Marc · #5 (**permalink**) Oct 14th, 2007, 17:35

If oyou are still getting an error after this, please make sure reflections.mov is in the same directory as reflections.html

siouxb · #6 (**permalink**) Oct 15th, 2007, 10:28

Hi Marc,

You were right. I was trying to upload a non-html editor file. I did view the source code and saw what you were talking about.

So, I copied/pasted the code into CODE VIEW of GoLive AND Dreamweaver.

Now it almost works. There is now a black page, and the movie is in the middle. The only thing that doesn't work is AutoPlay=true. I have no idea why. I even created a new GoLive document from scratch and manually set Autoplay but nada.

Thank you much for your assistance !

Susan

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