Re: Browser could not get mp3 files from http site

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 08:43 +1000, hce wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:54 +1000, hce wrote: > >> Thanks Dan and Ash. I've tried object tag, it crashed my firefox. The > >> audio.php file generates a simple following html. You need media > >> player plugin to test it. The web server > >> http://www.myweb.com/audio.php is my home server. Let > >> me further > >> discribe the problems, it is not the embed tag problem, it is the > >> source in the embed tag does not download to the browser (In fact, > >> I've tried the object tag as Ash suggested, the object tag crashed > >> firefox): > >> > >> (1) If I open following audio.html directly from "Open File" > >> file:///home/webserver/audio.html, the embed tag works just fine, the > >> audio can play. The /home/webserver is the directory where all > >> applications audio.php and audio.mp3 are stored. > >> > >> (2) If I open from http://www.myweb.com/audio.php, the > >> audio.mp3 does > >> not download to firefox. Nothing is played. > >> > >> <html> > >> <embed src="audio.mp3" autostart="1"></embed> > >> </html> > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >> On 9/13/08, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > >> > As far as I'm aware, the embed tag is not supported in any HTML > >> > standard, and as such, it's a little hit and miss. Depending on what you > >> > want to achieve, you should look towards the object tag instead: > >> > > >> > http://joliclic.free.fr/html/object-tag/en/ > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Ash > >> > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > >> > > >> > > As far as i know, embed will never work on Firefox, but I could be wrong > > on that. How exactly were you using the object tag? It shouldn't be > > crashing the browser. > > Please see following object tag I tried, there was a following error. > Sometime the browser freezed, sometime it was fine. It did not display > the small image block in width="200" height="20". Nothing was played. > > Error: [Exception... "Component is not available" nsresult: > "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: > file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsSessionStore.js :: > sss_saveState :: line 1896" data: no] > Source File: file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsSessionStore.js > Line: 1896 > > > <object type="audio/mpeg" data="audio.mp3" width="200" > height="20"> > <param name="src" value="audio.mp3"> > <param name="autoplay" value="true"> > <param name="autoStart" value="1"> > alt : <a href="audio.mp3">test audio</a> > </object> > > Thanks Ash. > The only thing I can see wrong is your mime-type. It should be audio/x-mpeg. As far as that, everything else looks OK. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk