Problem Embedding Realmedia

[ddrell]

I'm trying to get some .rm files to play on my site. I found a site that offers code on how to embed various media types. The code worked fine when I pasted it into my page directly, like so:

<EMBED SRC="http://home.att.net/~mojol/mol_pulse1.rpm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

however, while it worked with his url, when I try to alter it like below, the thing says I'm missing a plugin.

<EMBED SRC="https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

Anyone know what's going wrong here? Only difference I see is that I'm using a .rm instead of a .rpm, but I can't imagine that's the prob.

[Denn]

I'm trying to get some .rm files to play on my site. I found a site that offers code on how to embed various media types. The code worked fine when I pasted it into my page directly, like so:

<EMBED SRC="http://home.att.net/~mojol/mol_pulse1.rpm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

however, while it worked with his url, when I try to alter it like below, the thing says I'm missing a plugin.

<EMBED SRC="https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

Anyone know what's going wrong here? Only difference I see is that I'm using a .rm instead of a .rpm, but I can't imagine that's the prob.
In the first place... why are you trying to embed Realmedia?

Here's a thought... embed with windows media, which is whats on everyone's computer already and you won't have those problems.

I have seen some published reports that show Windows media player being used by 75% of computers, Quicktime on 20% and realplayer on 5%.

I learned along time ago to go with what eveyone's using and you'll stop having headaches over trying to get something to work that hardly anyone uses anyway.

I personally will not use quicktime. It loads itself on your taskbar without asking you, it loads itself in your startup menu (without asking you) and it hides itself from you making it hard to uninstall. I went to a site a few days ago and a popup menu asked me if I wanted to load quicktime. I pressed the no button and it loaded up anyway. All of which puts it at the top of my "it sucks" list.

[Albert_chu]

yeah there really is no point in trynig to embed real player..because honestly i dont think anyone uses it...and like Denn said, just stick to windows media..simply because its easier to code with, less errors and because mostly everyone in the world uses it.

[nigelss]

I think you'll find the BBC uses Realmedia as its default format for streaming video and it must do so for a reason so stick with it!

To get your rm file to play like you are trying to do you need to create an rpm file for it. The rpm file is a text file that contains one line which says where the rm file is, so in your case create a text file containing:

https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rm

and save it as rockem.rpm, and upload it to your server in the same place as your rockem.rm file.

Next, change your embed line to:

<EMBED SRC="https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rpm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

and you should be cooking with gas. Any problems just shout.

Cheers.

[Denn]

I think you'll find the BBC uses Realmedia as its default format for streaming video and it must do so for a reason so stick with it!

To get your rm file to play like you are trying to do you need to create an rpm file for it. The rpm file is a text file that contains one line which says where the rm file is, so in your case create a text file containing:

https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rm

and save it as rockem.rpm, and upload it to your server in the same place as your rockem.rm file.

Next, change your embed line to:

<EMBED SRC="https://webspace.utexas.edu/drelldm/webprog/rockem.rpm" WIDTH=375 HEIGHT=100 CONTROLS=All CONSOLE=one NOJAVA=true AUTOSTART=true LOOP=false>

and you should be cooking with gas. Any problems just shout.

Cheers.
Which means... they are part of the 5% using it. The others, 75% using Windows Meadia, and 20% using Quicktime still make up 95% of the market. So by all means, use whatever you want to use, but you'll only have 5% of the people looking at your videos. The other 95% won't be able to see them.

I am reminded of a TV show which used to be on air here in the U.S. called M.A.S.H. Colonel Potter told Radar in one episode, "Son, when all the world is doing something one way and you're doing it different... more than likely they have it right, and you've got it wrong".

So if your purpose is to use Realmedia than by all means do so, but if your purpose is to show your media to as large an audience as possible, then use what most people are already using, and already have loaded on their computer, which is Windows media player.