Using embed to display videos.

Jimbowino · December 27th, 2010, 05:16 PM

I have been using an embed expression to display short 15 sec 2MB mpg files inside ASP pages. The code I have been using is <embed src="<%=sMoviepath%>" width=540" height="400" </embed>. It works well in Google Chrome and used to work in Explorer and Firefox but now is causes FireFox to crash! Is there a better way to display a mpg video that will work on all the popular browsers or do I need to use different code for different browsers. Any help will be appreciated.

Old Pedant · December 27th, 2010, 05:28 PM

*** CROSSPOST ***
http://www.aspmessageboard.com/showthread.php?t=234298

Please don't crosspost unless you AT LEAST tell people you are doing so. People will end up wasting their time answering you when you already have an answer in another forum. It's poor netiquette.

By the by, even with the width and height, you are still missing the >.

Jimbowino · December 28th, 2010, 03:34 PM

Just to follow up on my request. I fixed it by using <object data="" type" " /> rather than <embed src="" />. Only effected Firefox and version 3.0.8 It worked OK in version 3.6.3 - The <object /> code does not seem to work in IE. I am remain interested in how to approach this to be cross platform stable. Any suggestions.

Still out of my depth with this but at least it now works. I apologize about cross posting. Did not know it was poor netiquette.. Live and learn.

Old Pedant · December 28th, 2010, 06:46 PM

Well, dunno why you couldn't do some simple browser detection and then plunk in the code version that matches the browser.

You can do

Code:

<%
agent = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
%>

And then do some minor decoding on that to determine the browser.

For example, on this machine, Firefox shows as
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
and MSIE shows as
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
and Chrome shows as
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10

So simply using INSTR() to look for "Firefox" or "MSIE" or "Chrome" would allow you to choose the correct tag, no?