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I think I'm going crazy by MatthewDBA 2005-05-11 03:32:43
Or else I'm totally missing something.

I'm trying to fix a series of web pages with embedded Windows Media Player objects in them. They were all built with the wrong path to the source movie. (That's my fault, actually - long story). I discovered this after loading the pages and not seeing the movies auto-start (they're set to).

So, I changed the path inside each of the pages from "/Path1/myVideo.wmv" to "/Path2/myVideo.wmv". And, I double checked that Path2 was indeed the path the movies were located at. Then, I FTPed the fixed pages over to the web server. So far, so good. But when I tried reloading the pages, the movies didn't open this time either. Well, that's not quite true. Two of them worked, and the rest still didn't.

Hmm, I thought. This is a bit weird. So I looked at the source from the browser. Sure enough, there was the embedded movie, with source listed as "Path2/myVideo.wmv". So why wasn't it working? Eventually, I got the brilliant idea of right-clicking on the embedded object to look at its properties. And sure enough, there under "Source", was "Path1/myVideo.wmv". :-(

How can this be? How can it be showing one thing in the source and looking for another in the object? I've cleared the cache, tried different browsers, done everything I can think of, and this stupid error keeps coming back up.

Oh yeah. The two that work? They list Path2 both in the source and in the embedded object. Go figure.

And I was supposed to have these pages working Monday so that our company could start making money. I guess it's important to do that.

Argle bargle frazzenrazzen mumble mumble....
[ Reply ]
  Tried it on a different PC? by Freespirit2005-05-11 04:24:27
    Yes, actually by MatthewDBA2005-05-11 04:59:30
      Hmm any nasty proxy servers? by Freespirit2005-05-11 05:07:26
        Well maybe, but by MatthewDBA2005-05-11 05:57:26
          ahahaaa by Freespirit2005-05-11 06:00:21
            No, in fact it's Apache2 (n/t) by MatthewDBA2005-05-11 06:46:29

 

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