object not playing in firefox

[mr_sark]

Hi all,

Currently i'm running a site, and on that site i've tried to play videos with the object code and with succes. But the movies do show in internet explorer but refuse to play or be displayed in firefox. In firefox i'll just get a blank page. Any idea why this is happening?

Here is the code i use

<object id="VIDEO" type="application/x-oleobject" height="240" width="320" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"><param name="URL" value="URL"/><param name="rate" value="1"/><param name="balance" value="0"/><param name="currentPosition" value="0"/><param name="defaultFrame" value=""/><param name="playCount" value="1"/><param name="autoStart" value="-1"/><param name="currentMarker" value="0"/><param name="invokeURLs" value="-1"/><param name="baseURL" value=""/><param name="volume" value="50"/><param name="mute" value="0"/><param name="uiMode" value="full"/><param name="stretchToFit" value="0"/><param name="windowlessVideo" value="0"/><param name="enabled" value="-1"/><param name="enableContextMenu" value="-1"/><param name="fullScreen" value="0"/><param name="SAMIStyle" value=""/><param name="SAMILang" value=""/><param name="SAMIFilename" value=""/><param name="captioningID" value=""/><param name="enableErrorDialogs" value="0"/><param name="_cx" value="8467"/><param name="_cy" value="6350"/></object>

[iamlost]

There are several problems with (MSFT) proprietary code:
* One: Only IE uses Active-X by default and any IE users who have turned Active-X off for security reasons will also not see your video.
* Firefox and other non-IE browser users individually would have to make a conscious decision to allow Active-X scripting and then to download/install the correct Media Player plug-in for their browser.
* some ad-block programs interfere with Media Player display.

Many people will see zilch. Not just FF users.

This is why many sites offer several audio/video formats so that users can get the info using their viewer of choice.