OK boys and girls… ever try to get Internet Archive MP4 Video like Fresh Hare to embed on a web page and play in both IE and Mozilla Firefox?
Here is the embed code that comes with Fresh Hare (works in IE but not Firefox):
<object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ width=”640″ height=”504″ id=”_2512411518807″>
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf?0.24257415602602278″ />
<param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” />
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” />
<param name=”w3c” value=”true” />
<param name=”flashvars” value=’config={“key”:”#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4″,”playlist”:[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/merry_melodies_fresh_hare/format=Thumbnail?.jpg","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/merry_melodies_fresh_hare/merry_melodies_fresh_hare_512kb.mp4","autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"}],”clip”:{“autoPlay”:false,”accelerated”:true,”scaling”:”fit”},”canvas”:{“backgroundColor”:”0×000000″,”backgroundGradient”:”none”},”plugins”:{“audio”:{“url”:”http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf”},”controls”:{“playlist”:false,”fullscreen”:true,”gloss”:”high”,”backgroundColor”:”0×000000″,”backgroundGradient”:”medium”,”sliderColor”:”0×777777″,”progressColor”:”0×777777″,”timeColor”:”0xeeeeee”,”durationColor”:”0×01DAFF”,”buttonColor”:”0×333333″,”buttonOverColor”:”0×505050″}},”contextMenu”:[{"Item merry_melodies_fresh_hare at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}’ />
</object>
Now here is my (amateur) workaround, or hack:
<object id=”csSWF” classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″
width=”640″
height=”504″
id=”_74288105109868″>
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf?0.3390401591905876″ />
<param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” />
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” />
<param name=”w3c” value=”true” />
<param name=”flashvars” value=’config={“key”:”#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4″,”playlist”:[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/merry_melodies_fresh_hare/format=Thumbnail?.jpg","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/merry_melodies_fresh_hare/merry_melodies_fresh_hare_512kb.mp4","autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"}],”clip”:{“autoPlay”:false,”accelerated”:true,”scaling”:”fit”},”canvas”:{“backgroundColor”:”0×000000″,”backgroundGradient”:”none”},”plugins”:{“audio”:{“url”:”http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf”},”controls”:{“playlist”:false,”fullscreen”:true,”gloss”:”high”,”backgroundColor”:”0×000000″,”backgroundGradient”:”medium”,”sliderColor”:”0×777777″,”progressColor”:”0×777777″,”timeColor”:”0xeeeeee”,”durationColor”:”0×01DAFF”,”buttonColor”:”0×333333″,”buttonOverColor”:”0×505050″}},”contextMenu”:[{"Item merry_melodies_fresh_hare at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}’ />
<embed name=”csSWF”
src=”http://www.archive.org/download/merry_melodies_fresh_hare/merry_melodies_fresh_hare_512kb.mp4″
width=”640″
height=”504″
bgcolor=”#161616″
quality=”best”
allowScriptAccess=”always”
allowFullScreen=”true”
scale=”showall”
autostart=”0″
pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash”>
</embed>
</object>
The upside is that (as of the date of this post) it will play in both IE and Mozilla Firefox. The downside is that the Firefox embedding lacks the nice thumbnail that shows up in Internet Explorer, as well as the nice control bar.
But that being said, this is a ready-made solution. Enjoy.
