[SWFObject] IE streaming audio does not auto play

[Josh Trout]

I had a similar problem a few weeks ago on a project involving a flash piece
in an ajax populated div and audio queued by ExternalInterface calls.  For a
while I thought it was an SWFObject bug (why I joined this list), but I
tracked it down to IE's handling of putting an object in via innerHTML.  For
some reason, IE would embed the object tag correctly, but threw errors on
the param tags as if the object tag wasn't there.  Really odd bug and it was
definitely an IE thing, not a SWFObject thing.  I'll try to post some
examples tomorrow.

My workaround was to put the flash piece outside the dynamic div.  Not an
option for most projects, but fortunately I had that freedom on that one.

On 10/12/06, Geoff Stearns <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
>
> hmm, well i'm stumped i think... i can't think of any reason why that
> would happen, other than maybe some issue with IE and using javascript to
> embed the swf...
> if anyone else can think of some tests to run, or maybe a workaround that
> would be cool :)
>
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Noah Winecoff wrote:
>
> Yeah this works when NOT using SWFObject. I have tried putting a
> sobjectname.start(); in the actionscript on the sound.onLoad event and at
> the very bottom of all the code so it would be ran after everything
> initilized thinking it wasn't firing the auto-play because of the mp3 being
> cached. I've noticed my current working version with pure embed/object isn't
> caching the MP3, like it was when I used SWFObject.
>
> On 10/12/06, Geoff Stearns <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
> >
> > sounds interesting...
> >
> > so have you tested without swfobject and it works?
> >
> > have you tried forcing the clip to start once enough has downloaded?
> > you mention that you are relying on the auto-start to start the clip,
> > but maybe if the audio is cached the auto start isn't being triggered?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Noah Winecoff wrote:
> >
> > > I am using SWJObject 1.4.4 with IE 6. I am displaying a flash movie
> > > in a hidden DIV. When I show the DIV by clicking a button I also
> > > write the flash movie to the DIV with SWFObject. The flash movie
> > > then loads a mp3 file VIA loadSound(), which should auto play once
> > > sufficient data has been downloaded. This works in Internet
> > > Explorer the first time the player is accessed, but if I hide the
> > > DIV and show it again the sound will not auto play. I've also
> > > noticed that it will only fail the second try IF the mp3 was
> > > completely downloaded the first time.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Currently I have had to
> > > scrap SWFObject for a pure object/embed tag solution. I would much
> > > rather use SWFObject to embed this movie.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
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