We have a drupal site for the TV station. They are using a video server to show archived shows. The videos are delivered using an mms protocol. An example is:
mms://69.27.178.18/TRMSVOD/4063-1%20Holy%20Ghost%20Festival%20The%20Portuguese%20Tradition%20in%20Half%20Moon%20Bay%20%20%20621.wmv

Run from a browser this open the media player. When this link is sent to the lightbox window, the popup opens but the video never starts.

Is there a way to make this work without saving the wmv file to a saved file.

Thanks
Emery Gordon

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gos commented

We used this code in video module (4.6), but I could not found it for 6.x version.
When you show video in your page is much nicer than open it in the new windows.

OBJECT id="video1" width="450" height="388"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Ve..."
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">

pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"
id="mediaPlayer" name="mediaPlayer" displaysize="4" autosize="-1"
showcontrols="true" showtracker="-1"
showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="-1" videoborder3d="-1" width="450" height="388"
src="mms://THE ADDRES OF WMV FILE" autostart="true" loop="true">
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stella commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

emerygjr: do you have a site where I can see where this mms video actually plays? i.e. not in a lightbox.

gos: if you have a different problem or feature request, please open a separate issue and provide more details. Thanks.

Cheers,
Stella

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emerygjr commented

Yes. This is the site: http://www.wiredmoon-projects.com/mctv-6.1/

On the Program Schedule click on the link to Footpath Journeys (View). This is a link to:

mms://69.27.178.18/TRMSVOD/4045-1-Footpath Journey.wmv

Which will play the video. I am trying to add these links to selected pages using Lightbox2.

It is being served from a video server.

Thanks

Emery Gordon

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stella commented

emerygjr: I got this to work in FF 3 and IE7 for me. I'm using the mms link you provided to test this on my test site.

Which browser and platform are you using? Does the picture or sound fail to work, or both? Depending on your connection to the server, it may take a minute for the video to download and appear.

Cheers,
Stella

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emerygjr commented

Yes, it works in IE7 but not FireFox 2.2 or IE6.

Those are the popular Browsers of our clients.

Mac Safari did not have the appropriate plugin to make it work.

Thanks
Emery

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stella commented

When you say it doesn't work, does the player appear at all? Do you have no sound or no picture or neither? I've encountered an issue in IE6 where I have sound but no picture until I move the scrollbar. Is that what you're seeing?

Cheers,
Stella

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stella commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

I've no problem using lightbox with other wmv files on the web or one on my local server. I think the problem may be to do with the fact that you're trying to stream the file over mms and that the connection is just too slow. That could explain why nothing happens for me for the first minute (even though I'm on broadband!), then I hear the sound. I often see the picture but it's a bit jumpy and freezes a lot. I'm afraid I can't provide any more assistance on this, though I would suggest converting the files to flash as they're supported by all platforms, including Mac.

cheers,
Stella

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stella commented
Status: Active » Fixed
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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.