Quicktime Object/Embed HREF Issue w/IE

[Aeronautic]

Hi all - I searched the forum and did not find this issue elsewhere so I rolled the dice on a new thread.

I'm trying to build pages of thumbnails for on-page embedded stock footage previews. In other words, view the page as it downloads, you just see what amounts to quick loading thumbs (one frame QT poster .mov files).

Click on any thumb you like, then that little file, and it alone, plays for you, right in place. I'm using the "target myself" calls, etc., and in Netscape it looks and works great. But in IE, the poster movie stays in place and the actual video runs behind it.

Here is the strangest part of it: if I click off to some other application window, then back, the correct movie is there on top!

Here is my code - no doubt I missed something:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="192"HEIGHT="145"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" NAME="Quicktime ActiveX">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="../stkftgprev/reel.52.clip.10.prev.mov">
<PARAM name="CACHE" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="QTSRC" VALUE="../stkftgprev/reel.52.clip.10.prev.mov">
<PARAM name="HREF" VALUE="reel.52.clip.10.mov">
<PARAM name="autohref" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="TYPE" VALUE="video/quicktime">
<PARAM name="TARGET" VALUE="myself">
<PARAM name="targetcache" VALUE="false">
<embed src="../stkftgprev/reel.52.clip.10.prev.mov" width="192" height="145" href="reel.52.clip.10.mov" target="myself" autoplay="false" cache="true" controller="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"></embed></OBJECT>

It is wordy! Trying the many cache calls to clear this up. Also - I've got most recent versions of QT, IE and Netscape on my machine - a Windows machine (not the server, my authoring computer).

Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.

-Craig (www.AeronauticPictures.com)

[Aeronautic]

Sorry to be a pest...

I cut the fat from that code and posted a test page here:

http://www.aeronauticpictures.com/stkftg/dc3.test.htm

Please give it a try with both Netscape and IE. It works perfectly for me with Netscape. With IE there is a new and strange problem with it showing the poster image (sized wrong - it did not do this with the local preview) and not showing the actual href'd movie.

Many thanks,

Craig (www.aeronauticpictures.com)

[Aeronautic]

Well, my logs show a few of you went to look at the page, but nobody posted any feedback at all.

I'm just wondering what you saw when you tried the page? Did it work for you with IE?

Even if you can't help me with the code, I'd like to know if it worked for you and which browsers & OS you tried, please.

Thanks in advance and happy new year!

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

hmm have u resolved this problem? it seems to be working for me and im using IE on WinXP Pro, nice site btw, can u guess what my major is (hint:it has to to with my username)?

[Aeronautic]

hmm have u resolved this problem? it seems to be working for me and im using IE on WinXP Pro, nice site btw, can u guess what my major is (hint:it has to to with my username)?

Hi Aerospace_Eng_, and thanks for taking the time to check out the test page (and rest of the site!). I appreciate the effort and kind words. And yes, I kinda figured out what your major was. ;)

The thing about this problem is that with IE it seems to have worked the last two times I tested it too. However, when the page with that version of the code first went up and I asked for help, it was giving me the grief I wrote about. Hmmmmmm. Again, thanks for bothering to take a look and the feedback!