Why don't these vids play in FireFox?

[Verbal]

This guys keeps submitting video freesites, but when I click the vids (in FireFox) I just get a page full of gibberish. Anyone know what's up?

http://www.mergina.com/wild-woman-in-sex/dvd-movies/

I've been declining his sites for not being FireFox compatible.

[cd34]

$ telnet mergina.com 80
Trying 216.32.70.42...
Connected to margarita.phpdevs.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /wild-woman-in-sex/data/video-1.wmv HTTP/1.0
Host: mergina.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:38:52 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) PHP/4.3.9
Last-Modified: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:28:28 GMT
ETag: "3ac108-dc1ac-b7ce9300"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 901548
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251


Note the Content-Type. Evidently IE sees text/plain, but realizes that the extension of .wmv needs to be processed. He needs to adjust his mime types on his server.

Probably missing the following in his apache config/mime.types declaration

video/x-ms-asf asf asx
video/x-ms-wm wm
video/x-ms-wmv wmv
video/x-ms-wmx wmx
video/x-ms-wvx wvx

[Cleo]

WMV files do that in all Mac browsers except Safari.

We use IE to do reviews in and drives us fucking crazy if we don't notice that it is a wmv file and just click on it instead of right mousing clicking and saving it to the desktop first.

I hate wmv files.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by cd34

Note the Content-Type. Evidently IE sees text/plain, but realizes that the extension of .wmv needs to be processed. He needs to adjust his mime types on his server.

Probably missing the following in his apache config/mime.types declaration

video/x-ms-asf asf asx
video/x-ms-wm wm
video/x-ms-wmv wmv
video/x-ms-wmx wmx
video/x-ms-wvx wvx

Good info, I'll let him know.

Cleo, so would you list this site since the WMVs can be played when saved first? I just think it's bound to piss off surfers with FireFox or a non-WMV-compatible browsers, which are quite a few. And I'm sure many don't know they have to save them first.

[Cleo]

Since I do reviews in IE and I've yet to see IE play a wmv when it is accessed directly I would have to decline 100% of all wmv files which I don't do.

I would be curious to see if Mac IE played these files if the server was setup as cd34 suggested.

The only thing that I use IE for is doing reviews. Mac IE is a slow POS that is very unforgiving of coding errors which is the main reason that we use it to do reviews. Also Safari which is what I use for just about everything else, like what I'm doing right now, ignores mouseover code so I would have no idea if they were using blind mouseover code.

Safari does work properly with wmv files except if the paysite uses Strongbox and in that case there just is no way of viewing them in any browser.

Mozilla on the Mac also has the same issues as Mac IE with wmv files and also like Safari ignores mouseovers.

I hate wmv files.

[cd34]

geesh, I try and find one server that I have that isn't running Tux that also has .wmv files.... haha..

http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/?cd34 this runs tux, but sets the mime type. I know the page encoding isn't complete, and they are reencoding the realmedia lowband, but, does that work?

http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/dsa/ (this should be the same, but without Tux)

$ telnet g.wasteland.com 80
Trying 69.25.180.209...
HConnected to g.wasteland.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /dsa/wasteland_master_512k.wmv HTTP/1.0
Host: g.wasteland.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:01:57 GMT
Server: TUX/2.0 (Linux)
Content-Length: 14672530
ETag: "14672530-ecdipcen"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:58:21 GMT

$ telnet colo50.mia 80
Trying 69.25.181.64...
Connected to colo50.mia.colo-cation.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /dsa/wasteland_master_512k.wmv HTTP/1.0
Host: colo50.mia.colo-cation.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:02:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-12
Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:58:21 GMT
ETag: "80004fa-dfe292-6f376d40"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 14672530
Connection: close
Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv

[Cleo]

Tested using Mac IE.
I had to look through the source code to find a direct link to the wmv files for this test since embedded wmv files do usually play just fine in all my browsers.

Both of these URLs do launch WMP instead of trying to display text.
http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/ds...aster_256k.wmv
http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland_master_256k.wmv
But the second one gives an error in WMP "The request is not valid in the current state."

It is interesting that these URLs are the only time I've ever even seen Mac IE work correctly and launch WMP.

[cd34]

hit this one again

http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland_master_256k.wmv

http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland..._256k.wmv?cd34

If the 1st one still doesn't work, but the second does, I know what it is.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by cd34

hit this one again

http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland_master_256k.wmv

http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland..._256k.wmv?cd34

If the 1st one still doesn't work, but the second does, I know what it is.

I get the same WMP error for the 2 above files "The request is not valid in it's current state".

WMP did open though. I'm on Mac OSX w/ FireFox.

[cd34]

do you get the same error on the one from colo50?

http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/ds...aster_256k.wmv

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by cd34

do you get the same error on the one from colo50?

http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/ds...aster_256k.wmv

No, that one doesn't even open WMP.. it just hangs on a blank "loading..." page.

I don't think it's a connectivity issue, since I am able to see the root directory http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/dsa/

[Cleo]

Same as Verbal on that last one.

This one gives me this error now.
http://g.wasteland.com/dsa/wasteland..._256k.wmv?cd34

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by cd34

do you get the same error on the one from colo50?

http://colo50.mia.colo-cation.com/ds...aster_256k.wmv

This plays fine.

[Ann Omness]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Since I do reviews in IE and I've yet to see IE play a wmv when it is accessed directly I would have to decline 100% of all wmv files which I don't do.

I do my reviews in IE and I've rarely had problems with just clicking on the wmv file to view it. I'm set up to default to using Windows Media Player for viewing.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

I do my reviews in IE and I've rarely had problems with just clicking on the wmv file to view it. I'm set up to default to using Windows Media Player for viewing.

Are you on a Mac?