[vlc] Re: No autoplay with mozillaplugin for 0.8.2

[Peter Maersk-Moller]

Hi Iván

Thanks for the reply.

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> First, don't use the obsolete <embed>, but the XHTML-compliant <object> tag:
> <object type='application/x-vlc-plugin' id='vlc_player' events='True'>
>  <param name='src' value='$video' />
>  <param name='autoplay' value='1' />
> </object>

A few months ago I tested it thoroughly (but for Quicktime) with
many browsers and OS's. I used 'embed' alone, then 'object' alone
and then mixed object and embed. The only things that worked on
all the platforms without a need for variation was the 'embed'
-tag.

Yes, 'embed' is obsolete, but its the only solution that works
cross platform and cross browsers (the ones that I care about).

> Second, use a little bit of javascript to get it running if autoplay doesn't 
> do the trick:
> <script type='text/javascript'>
> document.getElementById('vlc_player').play();

Thanks for the tip. Done that now and it works. However, under load,
it might takes time to load the plugin, so a script calling
the player element might fail. Don't know if I can test
if it has loaded so the script doesn't fail. Do you ?

Kind regards

--PMM

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