How do I get Photopost to play mp4 and asf files?

Johnny Doomo · March 2nd, 2006, 07:02 PM

I can't remember if I was helped out with a tweak so that other videos play, but right now my Photopost will play .wmv,.avi,.mpg,.mpeg,.mpe,.mov just fine, but .asf and .mp4 extensions won't stream inside the browser.

Is there any fix for this?

WizyWyg · March 2nd, 2006, 07:04 PM

it depends on the plugin you have for your browser; which of those extensions are assigned to your plugin (ASF should be WMP, so check to see i that file extention is associated with WMP)

Johnny Doomo · March 3rd, 2006, 03:22 PM

It has to do with the server end, not the end user. The system doesn't even display the video, it displays the thumbnail for the video, hence the server doesn't know what to do with files of those extensions.

WizyWyg · March 6th, 2006, 02:43 PM

whats the link to your site?

Chuck S · March 6th, 2006, 02:53 PM

If Wizy pointed out asf plays in WMP why not add it to the showphoto file Johnny?

In showphoto.php

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Johnny Doomo · March 7th, 2006, 04:10 PM

I will try what Chuck mentioned as soon as I have the time to make the change.

Wizy my site is www.clipupload.com

This should work for .asx files as well too right?

BTW Is there anyway to add some simple code to get mp4s to play in PP as well?

Johnny Doomo · March 9th, 2006, 03:40 AM

OK I got it working for asf and .asx (if the .asx file has a size). I haven't tested it with .asx files that stream from another server... nor do I care if those work or not.

Chuck, can you help me with getting mp4 files to work? I got one to work, but only because that computer has certain codecs and I guess the WMP on that computer could handle mp4s, but on other computers the video would never run. Is it possible to get it to work on all computers? Mp4s seem like the new popular video extension so I was really hoping to get them to work on my PP powered site.

Any ideas?

Chuck S · March 9th, 2006, 07:36 AM

You need to have the proper codecs loaded for that new file type if your trying to play it. I personally have never read up on mp4 as mp3 is the popular format out there.

Johnny Doomo · March 9th, 2006, 10:12 AM

mp3 is audio
mp4 is video

Well I will play around more with codecs and see what might be needed. Can you help me get it so that a message shows in showphoto.php if the video that it's trying to play is a mp4, but not other formats?

Chuck S · March 9th, 2006, 10:15 AM

If your trying to play an mp4 as a video you can do the edit I have provided like above provided you know what player to put it under. Other than that from a Photopost perspective there is nothing else I can suggest because players still require the correct stuff to be on a users computer to play it. Photopost is simply playing the players inline on the webpage.

Johnny Doomo · March 10th, 2006, 10:17 PM

Yeah, I have WMP for mp4s, but WMP contains the codecs for playing all other files by default except mp4s so I was hoping to get it that if PP "sees" that the vidoe is a mp4 extension it provides a link above the embedded player that tells people to download a mp4 codec first.

Can you help me with that?

Chuck S · March 10th, 2006, 10:38 PM

Your probally going to have to wait for the player to natively support that file type. Not much I can help with as the issue has nothing to do with Photopost but your media player

Johnny Doomo · March 13th, 2006, 03:30 PM

Don't you mean Microsoft's?

Only the most installed player on computers in the world.

Thanks anyways... at least I got those others working.