[SWFObject] IE streaming audio does not auto play

Noah Winecoff asknoah at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 07:51:27 PDT 2006 

Ok I have tested those methods and they did not work for me.

What I have tried:
- Placing the flash in an iFrame and displaying the iFrame in the div.
- "Hiding" the DIV by setting its size to 1x1px instead of setting its
display style

I do have it working WITHOUT SWFObject. Here is how it is implemented.

When the DIV is shown I write the flash to the DIV via innerHTML with an
external JS file so IE does not give that annoying "click to active plugin"
box around the flash.

When the DIV is hidden I reset the DIV's content via innerHTML to an empty
string so the flash audio will no continue playing in IE even when its not
displayed.

I can live with this for now. As someone stated earlier, I do not think this
is an issue with SWFObject, rather a bug in IE. Firefox/Flock did not have
this issue.

Hopefully one day I will find the solution to this or IE will get fixed.

Once again thanks for everyone's help and thanks Geoff for a great module!


On 10/13/06, Noah Winecoff <asknoah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes it is working properly in Firefox/Flock.
>
> I do currently remove the flash when I hide the DIV by setting innerHTML
> of the div to an empty string.
> I am not loading the flash on load. The flash is dynamically added to the
> div when a button is clicked.
> Yes I am hiding the DIV by getElementById('divid').style.displaye =
> 'none';.
> With #2 are you implying also that I should reset the DIV's content to
> nothing VIA innerHTML? If I didn't do this I believe the flash audio would
> still continue to play.
>
> I'm not for sure I understand #3
>
> I will test some of these out. Thanks!
>
> On 10/13/06, Mike Mountain < mike.mountain at ecmsys.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >  I had issues in IE with Stage.sizes in flash not being initialised with
> > cached content when using SWFObject - to get round this I put all my code on
> > frame 2 and suddenly everything worked.
> >
> > You could give that a try?
> >
> > M
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com [mailto:
> > swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] *On Behalf Of *Noah Winecoff
> > *Sent:* 12 October 2006 23:47
> > *To:* swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> > *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 <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 < 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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