I am re-writing an audio & video site from way back when, and trying to utilise the new functionality built into the browser via html5. So far so good. The video that I want to playback is of content type = video/x-msvideo, which is not supported by html5 (this I derive from various searches not bringing me to a positive conclusion). The video should be played back via the chrome browswer, and one way that I so far have tried that ((semi))- works, is to set the window.location.href to the url that I would like to the video to play, such as: The url in turn renders an avi file (with the above content type), that is then downloaded to the users download directory, and it opens up the window media player to play the call. (i guess that is what the pc is set up todo, when it opens file of a certain type, it uses a prefered program to open the file up).

My concern is that I do not want the file to download, but rather that the browswer should try and play it from the online location. Thank you in advance, Harriet.

Hello all, I'm encountering a weird problem. I don't know when it began, but I cannot play.avi videos (containing ANY codec) in any browser anymore. In Safari I get a faded QuickTime logo with a question mark on top, and in Camino or Firefox I get a QuickTime logo without anything, as if it were still loading.

Camino/FF also say 'video/x-msvideo Object' in the title bar, and calling aboutlugin shows that that MIME type is (supposedly) taken care of by the QuickTime plugin. Opening the.avi files through QuickTime Player works perfectly, and dragging them onto Safari's icon (whilst pressing command and option to 'force' it to open it), it works. On Camino this doesn't happen, but neither browser opens them through the network, not even putting the video on the local webserver and using.

I am trying to watch a Russian video, but Firefox cannot find the plugin needed. I am not terribly internet-savvy, and don't know where to begin to find one that will work. I would appreciate any direction you can give! Gingerbread Man: User avatar: Posts: 7623: Joined: Jan Tue 30th 2007 5:55pm. Post Posted Aug Thu 26th.

I've installed Perian, 3ivX and DivX. I manually uninstalled DivX (especially the QT components and the plugin) and 3ivX using the latter's uninstaller.

Perian, anyway, should be enough. In fact, I also dragged Perian.component out of /Library/Quicktime, and both browsers DID show the QuickTime progress bar but did not play anything, neither audio nor video. QuickTime Player did the same. Putting Perian.component back into the QuickTime folder, the files play again in QT Player, but not in the browsers. As I said, this happens ONLY with.avi files.

Any other video format, including.wmv, works perfectly. Just for the sake of it, I created a brand new additional user and tried it:.avi videos don't play in broser for the new user either. I also downloaded and reinstalled QuickTime, and checked the MIME type settings in the QuickTime pane in System Preferences, resetting them to the default. I also ran AppleJack, just in case. Still no luck whatsoever.

I'm running OS X 10. Hanc Drivers Ed Final Review here. 4.8 (with QuickTime 7.1.3) on an iMac Core 2 Duo. Free Suitcase Fusion 3 Serial Number For Mac. Could someone suggest me how to fix this problem? I've already googled up, but although other people have mentioned a similar problem (although never related to a single file type), I haven't been unable to track the issue down since I doubt that the QT plugin leaves any logs (I haven't found them anywhere, at least.) Thank you in advance iMac Intel C2D Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB of ram Posted on Nov 15, 2006 4:22 PM.

I've installed Perian, 3ivX and DivX. I manually uninstalled DivX (especially the QT components and the plugin) and 3ivX using the latter's uninstaller. Perian, anyway, should be enough.

In fact, I also dragged Perian.component out of /Library/Quicktime, and both browsers DID show the QuickTime progress bar but did not play anything, neither audio nor video. QuickTime Player did the same. Putting Perian.component back into the QuickTime folder, the files play again in QT Player, but not in the browsers. You may also wan to check for conflicts with 'CASIO AVI Importer.component' and/or 'XVIDDelegate' if installed.

In addition, if you have VLC installed, check your 'Internet Plug-Ins' folder to see if there is a VLC plug-in installed. If so, try removing it as it is known to create conflicts. Nov 15, 2006 4:52 PM. I have neither the Casio AVI nor the XVIDDelegate components installed; and I do have the VLC player, but I never saw any plugin related to VLC.

A weird thing I noticed, though is that when I right click a file playable by VLC in the Finder and hover on 'Open with', I get two VLCs which apparently refer to the same application (I only have one VLC on my hard drive). Yes, the 'video' box is enabled. There are actually two AVI entries, one that just says 'AVI video' and one that says 'Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI)', but no combinations of them seem to work. I asked a friend who could play avi videos in his browser and he said that only the first one was enabled.

The weird thing is that if I disable both, my browsers will save the file, just as expected. So it seems that it's the QuickTime plugin having some problems with the application/x-msvideo files. If only there were a way to have it log the errors to disk. As for VLC, I do use it, but I'm talking about playing AVI files right in the browser, rather than having to download them and open them separately. It often happens that I have to check out a plethora of.avi files, and this way it becomes a pain. Nov 16, 2006 12:04 AM.

I've also tried to reinstall QT after deleting the two plugin files related to QT, t oforce them to be updated to the latest version. Now their last modified date is September 2nd (before it was August 26th), but it still doesn't work. I also used Diablotin to check that there were no spurious plugins or components, but everything seems right. I really can't understand what the problem might be, because: 1. AVI files open perfectly in QuickTime Player 2. AVI files (MIME type: application/x-msvideo) show a faded QT logo with a question mark in Safari, and a non-faded QT logo alone in Camino and Firefox 3. The same thing happens also when disabling all other plugins except QuickTime.

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