SillyDog701

[Ratscull]

Hi All,
I'm a web developer, but don't deal with media much. I have a series of .asx (really .wax) and .ram files that work fine in IE. The .ram files work fine in NS and FF, too. But the .asx files just display the code in netscape and firefox.

I wasn't doing an embedded player - just allowing the player to launch externally. Do I have to do an embedded player to let users hear the windows audio files (without the users knowing anything about plugins)? Or is there something I can do on the server end that would let the .asx files work?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[Fulvio]

I have been going batty with .asx and .wax files. And, I learned quite a bit, in the process. I had this problem, because I did not want to launch Windows Media Player. The files work fine if WMP is enabled. But, if disabled, a number of things have happened, and, in no case which ever player was selected played immediately. Music Match was the best, and it was launched, but did not play, unless I had the item in the playlist.
Basically, .asx and .wax are playlist files, and their success to play streaming media, relies on the presence of a link, in the player. In some cases an introductory 10-20 sec clip played first, but failed to continue. I found out that by launching the link from the desktop, the streaming was .wma format. But, in my case it is solely a case when I disable WMP.
So, the short answer, yes, it could be the server.

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[akbash]

It sounds like your server is misidentifying the file, giving it an incorrect mimetype.

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[Alice]

See if any of these pages help:

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#mime
Q: Can I serve an ASF/WMA/WMV from my (fill-in-the-blank) web server?
...link to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... l/mime.asp
MIME Type Settings for Windows Media Services

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess9.shtml
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess/ Adding mime types

http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/mime-types/
Properly Configuring Server MIME Types

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[sleeper]

obviusly im way late on this, but I dont see how this was resolved. a listen link for shoutcast that works perfict in IE and opens up the players and the player starts thats how its suposed to work. Yet in the firfox world were they cant let anything work the way it should it opens these links in another tab or page showing the coding for the playlist that should be opening the player. Now for some reason theres alot of people that use firfox wich I compltly just dont understand why, but I think he was asking how do you make these links work in firefox like they do in IE.

Jim

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