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NEW: WebGizmo -- looks and works like Gizmo -- runs in a browser
Yaobing:
On local machine, IE and Safari play all my videos. Firefox plays nothing (black screen, no message). Perhaps I need a Firefox plugin.
On iPhone (Safari), only mp4 videos play. All others end up with error message "Can not download file". Even the video taken by the same iPhone (MOV) would not play.
jdewoody:
So far it works pretty well with Opera. A couple of questions:
1) Out of curiosity, is there any chance we'll be able to customize the look of it or will it be limited to those of us curious enough to edit the respective CSS files?
2) Is there a possibility that the player can be targeted to a space at the top (i.e., like a "Now Playing" iframe, etc) of the page instead of a new page?
Thanks,
J
glynor:
WebGizmo isn't working for me at all.
First, the background. I'm running it in Firefox 9.0.1 with the current version of Adobe Flash installed (on OSX 10.6.8, for the record). The problems I'm seeing with quick tests are:
1. I get no labels of any kind on any of the view items. For example, if I click on Audio from the root of Gizmo, this is what I get:
Videos and Images views are the same, and none of the files themselves show any captions at all.
2. Playing an individual audio file starts VERY slowly. I just get a white page in the browser and the GetFile command just sits there loading for a LONG time. The old WebPlay functionality starts up very quickly. I'm running this on a corporate LAN with a 20gbps Internet connection. My home system has a pretty fat upstream pipe by the standards of most American users (I pay for the best cable connection Time Warner offers in my area).
3. Playing an individual video file just gives me an all black page and doesn't seem to do anything. No flash player loads, and the browser doesn't appear to be still loading anything (so maybe I just haven't waited long enough, but it sure doesn't give any user feedback that it will be a while).
4. It is quite tiresome that all of the Web functions of MC still use htaccess style password prompts, which means they aren't "caught" by many password managers and there's no way to say "remember me". It should REALLY have a way to set a cookie so that it automatically logs you in from whatever device you happen to be using.
glynor:
--- Quote from: glynor on December 29, 2011, 03:52:12 pm ---WebGizmo isn't working for me at all.
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Just tested it using Firefox 9.0.1 on Windows 7 and got the same exact behavior I reported above, so it isn't a MacOSX thing. Incidentally, I hadn't loaded Firefox on that machine in a while, so when I first opened it, I tested with 7.0.1, and it was also the same, so this isn't a "new Firefox" thing either.
glynor:
--- Quote from: glynor on December 29, 2011, 04:13:28 pm ---Just tested it using Firefox 9.0.1 on Windows 7 and got the same exact behavior I reported above, so it isn't a MacOSX thing. Incidentally, I hadn't loaded Firefox on that machine in a while, so when I first opened it, I tested with 7.0.1, and it was also the same, so this isn't a "new Firefox" thing either.
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Just tested from home on the server machine itself with Chrome and it works beautifully. I'll try it later with my laptop on the home Wifi connection. Same machine using Firefox results in the same as above (though audio starts very quickly, and loads in Quicktime player of all things).
So, right now at least, it doesn't seem to be Firefox compatible.
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