[SWFObject] IE streaming audio does not auto play

[Noah Winecoff]

An example of what you did would be great thanks. I also tried putting the
flash in an iFrame and dynamically adding the iFrame to the div on the
button click, but the same issue is happening. I thought for sure that would
have fixed it.

On 10/12/06, Josh Trout <clearcache at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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