Comments on: WP Media Player

By: James Huxtable

James Huxtable — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:02:17 +0000

Regarding the scrolling issue, I have performed some additional tests to try and pinpoint which browsers this issue occurs on.

I tested the following;

Safari on OSX = OK
Firefox 3.5 on OSX = OK
Firefox 3.6 on OSX = OK
Internet Explorer 8 on XP and Windows7 = OK
Firefox 3.5 on Windows = OK
Firefox 3.6 on Windows = Stops scrolling

So it seems that the problem is only related to Firefox 3.6 on the Windows platform. Apologies for thinking that the plugin may have been at fault. I only thought that as other sites with embedded silverlight/flash players worked correctly when scrolling. I did manage to find several other users having scrolling issues when using Firefox 3.6 as well (albeit not quite the same). So it looks like a possible bug in Firefox.

By: James Huxtable

James Huxtable — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:11:50 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I am using Firefox as my main browser. You’re right about IE, I just tried it in IE 8 and it works fine. I also just tried it in OSX using Safari 4. So it seems like just an issue with Firefox

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:19:39 +0000

@James Huxtable: Which web browser has this problem? I just tried with IE8 and am able to use the mouse wheel for scrolling.

By: James Huxtable

James Huxtable — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:55:04 +0000

Hi,

So far I have found the plugin with the popup style to be an excellent alternative to using flash players. However, I noticed that if you use your mouse wheel to scroll the page, that as soon as the cursor is over the video the mouse wheel stops responding and the page does not scroll.

Does anyone know a way that I can prevent this behaviour as it stops the flow of interaction that the user has?

Thanks

By: Devin Walker

Devin Walker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:43:52 +0000

Thanks a lot for this useful plugin, saved me a lot of time! Greatly appreciated. Tracking also? Impressive.

By: Jeroen van de Peppel

Jeroen van de Peppel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:09:26 +0000

Thanks for your plugin, it functions well except for the aspect ratio. my uploaded video is 16:9 however when i play it through your media player it squeezes the video into 4:3. Any ideas about what i am doing wrong?

By: Thomass

Thomass — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:43:48 +0000

Hi Ruslan!

When the main menu drops down, the buttons going behind the player we use. See the image: http://www.omroepzeeland.nl/sport/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/navi-behind-silverlightplayer.jpg. I’m using the PopUp-skin.

By: Sanwal

Sanwal — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:02:42 +0000

hey, i ‘ve just installed this plugin on my site plus silverlight as wwell and tried to embed streaming link on my site with ur plugin but seems its not not working at all

link i was trying to embed is:
mms://ams01.egihosting.com/ExpressNews

need help in this regard,

thankss

By: Thomass

Thomass — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:14:57 +0000

@Ruslany: that will be great! Thanks…

By: ruslany

ruslany — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:46 +0000

It is possible, but it is not easy. It would have to be a completely different implementation in the plugin because the player uses different JavaScripts.

By the way I am rewriting the players to use Silverlight 2 – that will significantly reduce the size of the player files (e.g. 30kB vs 300kB), plus it will be faster and easier to modify the player’s functionality.