Re: [Oreka-devel] Play sound files on Linux (no windows media player)

For paying customers under Linux (not very common) or MacOS (more common),
we have a java applet as a player, but this is part of the commercial
release. Also, we are working on a new html5 player, not sure yet whether
we'll contribute it to the open source version.
Henri


On 29 November 2013 06:26, Peter P GMX <Pro...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we trying to play back sound files from Orkweb in Firefox under Xubuntu.
>
> Looking at the code
> <script language="JavaScript">
>         function play (audioFilename)
>         {
>             document.all.player.autoStart = true;
>             document.all.player.fileName = audioFilename;
>         }
> </script>
>
> <OBJECT ID="player"
>     CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
>
> CODEBASE="
> http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.
>     cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
>     STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
>     TYPE="application/x-oleobject"
>     WIDTH=280 HEIGHT=50 >
>     <PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="">
>     <PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="false">
>     <PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
>     <PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
>     <PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="true">
>     <PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
>     <PARAM NAME="ShowPositionControls" VALUE="true">
>     <PARAM NAME="ShowTracker" VALUE="true">
>     <PARAM NAME="CurrentPosition" VALUE="0">
>     <PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
> </OBJECT>
>
> I can see that this will only work with Windows Media Player Active X
> control.
>
> So my feeling is: This could not work under Linux.
>
>
> Has anybody already tried to use another embedded player, (e.g.
> soundmanager, dewplayer, swplayer, flowplayer, page-player.js) or
> similar to embed this instead of Windows Media Player?
> How are you dealing with Clients under Linux?
>
>
>
>
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