WM9 MIME type and Adobe Golive?

Coursedesign wrote on 10/4/2004, 9:30 PM
From a webmaster adding my WM9 files (after my sinuses [and brain cells] cleared, the file size went from 33MB to 4.7MB with the same quality) to his site:

"It appears that Adobe GoLive supports the "video/x-msvideo" MIME type but not the "video/x-ms-wmv" MIME type (which is the type your file is).
I should be able to merely point the hyper-link to your movie file and if the visitor has Windows Media Player installed, the rest is automatic. This is not the case in all situations.

I use Netscape 7.2 (Mac) and even though Netscape says that the "video/x-ms-wmv" MIME is automatically supported and I do have WMP installed... Netscape still asks me what I want to do with the file."

Smells like a Mac problem rather than a Golive problem.

Anybody know what to do with this?

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sbloombaum wrote on 10/6/2004, 9:15 AM
Ask the question on Creative Cow's streaming forum? There's a good mix of mac and pc heads on that forum.

Sorry I don't have a direct answer, but here are some random thoughts.

Something's not right here (you knew that). GoLive's built in codebase may or may not correctly tag an external hyperlink to a wmv, but what this guy is describing seems to be a browser problem, not GoLive.

And I'd bet that GoLive will allow any code to be written. If you're the content supplier and he's the web developer, it sounds like he's unfamiliar with implementing wmv in the mac world, doesn't want to work in the pc world, and wants to make it all your problem instead of his. Has he tried specing the msvideo mime type? (regardless of what GoLIve tells him to do?)

My experience has been that if a program such as GoLive doesn't correctly tag something like video, you need to write your own tag.

(disclaimer: I use Dreamweaver on a PC, but my wmvs work in Netscape 7.x on a PC - I don't have a mac to test with. DW did not correctly tag WMV embedded players, I had to write my own!)

Hope this helps...
Coursedesign wrote on 10/8/2004, 4:33 PM
Thanks!

He got it to work by specing it to be an "octet stream".

Astonishing that DW can't tag embedded WMV players, sigh.

Had to put up a QT too, for people who want to watch the video on Macs at schools where they don't have WMV players, and no installations are allowed...