Quicktime embed weirdness… help!?

  • So strange.

    I’ve had .mov and .mp4 videos embedded on my self-hosted portfolio site for YEARS and they’ve been 100% fine (using the standard embed HTML text, not using “add media”).

    But suddenly I’m getting a “MISSING PLUG IN” message on Mac. But not PC.

    I’m running Lion on one mac, and Mountain Lion on my other. Both updated, etc. And I get the same message on both ??

    What’s even weirder is that when I go to EDIT my page, and I click “PREVIEW CHANGES” without changing anything…and the videos play perfectly.

    Any ideas what’s going on?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated ??

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  • What browser are you using? That’s almost certainly a Quicktime plugin message (not WP plugin).

    Thread Starter erichhartmann

    (@erichhartmann)

    On my Macs both Safari and Chrome give me their version of the “missing plugin” graphic.

    Both are the latest browser versions.

    Firefox works, but there’s a bit of a “dotted line” around it. It also gives me a “download” link in that box (something that I’m assuming FF is adding). Not as clean as i’d like.

    On PC it works with the latest IE.

    I’ll go ahead and ask…why are you using .mov files on your site? Those definitely require QuickTime to be installed on the client, and if you also offer .mp4 files those are the better choice given the increasing number of browsers that support HTML5 video, which has MP4 as one of its codecs. Plus, using the new native HTML5 video support in WordPress 3.6 gives you a fallback to Flash on clients that don’t support native video. Flash is less than ideal, but likely has wider support than QuickTime.

    Can you post a link to your site where this happens?

    Thread Starter erichhartmann

    (@erichhartmann)

    I just realized that all of my links are .m4v files. I had some .movs uploaded a while ago, but have since switched over to all .m4v.

    I used Quicktime Pro to shrink and output all these files.

    The reason I used QT is a) because this is my work portfolio, and 99% of the people looking at it would have a mac, and therefore Quicktime, b) I did this in 2011 and HTML5 wasn’t as common then, and b) it was working up until at lest a few months ago.

    ??

    And here’s a couple pages:
    https://erichhartmann.net/projects/trident-tv-makeup/
    https://erichhartmann.net/projects/speed-stick-tv-pingpong/

    I should point out that this was all happening before updating to 3.6. So after some failed troubleshooting, I updated WP to see if this would fix things. It didn’t.

    What’s weird is -after this last update- I now don’t get ANY option to edit the TEXT of these projects (where I had the HTML for the embed). Now the “text” editing field is grayed out, and the “visual” field shows a big yellow box w/ a movie clip icon in it.

    Thread Starter erichhartmann

    (@erichhartmann)

    I’m still confused as to how this is happening. I’ve tried everything.

    Any other ideas and input would be great.

    ??

    Can you provide a link to screenshot of what the editor looks like?

    Have you cleared your browser cache and cookies?

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