AW6.5 Publish in Vista??????
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From: deuxieme on 18 Dec 2008 14:52 Continuing to experiment, I find that there are slightly different results when I double click on the aminac.htm file in the Web directory, than when I double click on the aminac.aam file. In the latter case, I get the security dialog box and then I just see the menu bar with the File command. I find that the movie is in fact in the same folder as the movie player exe file after this. For some reason the ptrace.txt file no longer appears even though the shktrace.on file is still there.
From: Mike Baker **Adobe Community Expert** on 19 Dec 2008 00:41 My test copy of Vista is downloading fine now... but I don't have quicktime installed on it. What version of quicktime do you have? Mike ==================== Mike Baker Adobe Community Expert mike-baker at cox dot net
From: troisieme on 19 Dec 2008 07:45 Thanks Mike; that is encouraging news. I am using QT 7.5.5, I think the most recent player. I have read elsewhere that with Vista you have to put your target sites in your trusted files list in IE and that you have to turn off user control. I have done this and the remote files load with the controller bar but the movies still do not play, even if I use a dot instead of DOWNLOAD on the PUT line in the aam file. Since the controller bar appears it is clear that the web player is reading the aam file. When the PUT DOWNLOAD command is in place the movie is downloaded to the DOWNLOAD file - I can see it with Explorer. But the piece is unable to find it, which is so strange. There is no error message now. For some reason no ptrace.txt file appears when these actions are completed. I need to solve this issue before I revisit the issue of authoring on the vista machine. Obviously if the player does not work right I might as well stick to the XP environment for authoring.
From: Amy Blankenship on 19 Dec 2008 09:25 "troisieme" <webforumsuser(a)macromedia.com> wrote in message news:gig51f$bdc$1(a)forums.macromedia.com... > Thanks Mike; that is encouraging news. I am using QT 7.5.5, I think the > most > recent player. > > I have read elsewhere that with Vista you have to put your target sites in > your trusted files list in IE and that you have to turn off user control. > I > have done this and the remote files load with the controller bar but the > movies > still do not play, even if I use a dot instead of DOWNLOAD on the PUT line > in > the aam file. Since the controller bar appears it is clear that the web > player > is reading the aam file. When the PUT DOWNLOAD command is in place the > movie is > downloaded to the DOWNLOAD file - I can see it with Explorer. But the > piece is > unable to find it, which is so strange. Why is that strange? When you authored the piece, was the string "download" part of the path you told it to use to access the file? I've never agreed with the fact that some Macromedia engineer decided to put an extra folder in the path that was almost guaranteed to break pieces that put files in the root. To be fair, this is often bad practice--but that's not the way to handle developers' bad practices.
From: troisieme on 19 Dec 2008 11:33
The reason I found it strange is that the PUT DOWNLOAD command works ok in XP but not Vista. But then the product is not written for Vista, and I can see it is questionable practice asking for trouble. So in agreement with your thought, I repeated the experiment with the PUT, command. Well entered the PUT. command for this file, aminac.aam, verified the file size, and put the file on the remote server whose address is http://www.rpi.edu/locker/53/001053/, and played it on my XP machine by pointing the browser to the aminac.htm file. The piece comes right up and the movie plays. I find the movie in the root directory of my XP machine with the webplr07.exe file. When use IE7 to link to the aminac.htm file with my Vista machine, with the domain in the trusted files list and protected mode off, the movie file is not copied to the web player folder. And although the piece plays, i.e. the movie controller bar appears, the movie itself does not play. Is there something else I should do to configure vista to play nicely with the web player? |