[SWFObject] IE streaming audio does not auto play

Fri Oct 13 05:39:46 PDT 2006

Hi,
I've been in the same situation with IE and dynamically adding swf with
SWFobject. When all is fine in FF in many cases IE just didn't
cooperate.
Is your setup working in FF?

(as a workaround!) try the following scenarios:

1) completely remove the flash from DOM when you hide the div and put it
back in when you show the div again.
question: why do you already load the flash when you don't use it yet?

or

2) how do you hide the div? I assume you use
document.getElementById('theDivId').style.display = 'none'
instead set the width and height of your div to 1px to 'hide' the div.

or

3) give flash in IE a little 'push' when after you have shown the div
again (I know this sounds really really dodgy) by resetting the height
and width to the same dimensions they already have.

good luck, it can be a pain to get this working in IE but it can be
done.

In my situation I had it working fine but than ran into serious
performance problems with Externalinterface so I had to skip
Externalinterface and use the previous Integration Kit again.
No surprise that also in that case IE caused me problems when
dynamically adding flash.
(see thread for demo page: HYPERLINK
"http://lists.deconcept.com/pipermail/swfobject-deconcept.com/2006-Octob
er/001800.html"http://lists.deconcept.com/pipermail/swfobject-deconcept.
com/2006-October/001800.html )

good luck,
David

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[mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Noah
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Subject: Re: [SWFObject] IE streaming audio does not auto play

I didn't specifically mention this in my first post, but If I hit the
pause button then play the MP3 will start playing. Just another thing
that might help debug this. Thanks everyone.

On 10/12/06, Noah Winecoff <HYPERLINK
"mailto:asknoah at gmail.com"asknoah at gmail.com> wrote: 

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 <HYPERLINK "mailto:clearcache at gmail.com" \n
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 <HYPERLINK "mailto:geoff at deconcept.com"
\ngeoff 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 <HYPERLINK "mailto:geoff at deconcept.com"
\ngeoff 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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