Video Not Streaming Properly

Video streams well from a link but not well from an embed.

[icon_kid]

I'm trying to embed Windows Media Player into a Web page but the animation doesn't stream properly when I use embed code -- it's very choppy. The odd thing is that the video is still choppy even after the entire file is in the browser cache. It streams very well from a direct link to the animation file. Here's the code I'm using:

<!-- BEGIN GENERIC ALL BROWSER FRIENDLY HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER -->
<OBJECT
 ID="mediaPlayer"
 CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
 CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
 STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
 TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
 <PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="http://www.anysite.com/videofilename.asf">
 <PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="false">
 <PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="false">
 <PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
 <PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
 <PARAM NAME="clickToPlay" VALUE="true">
</OBJECT>
 <!-- END GENERIC ALL BROWSER FRIENDLY HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER -->

Even though the direct link streams the animation properly, it has its own problem because, on some systems, it causes a prompt to appear -- it tells you that the latest version of WMP (version 10) should be downloaded and installed. I don't think there's a way to eliminate the prompts, so I'd really like to find the reason why my videos don't stream from an embed. Any ideas?

[tedster]

The odd thing is that the video is still choppy even after the entire file is in the browser cache. It streams very well from a direct link to the animation file.

Yes, that is really odd. Sorry no one has any input so far -- I'm certainly drawing a blank. Maybe this bump will attract more input.

[Jon_King]

>>The odd thing is that the video is still choppy even after the entire file is in the browser cache.

I'll make a stab at it. The activex is being tested by your firewall, creating a studder. Try disabling it and see.

[icon_kid]

Two years ago when Time Warner Cable installed my high-speed Internet connection, they said that a firewall would be installed with it. I don't know exactly where to look to temporarily disable it, but I'll try.