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Safari 5 breaks embedded Quicktime player

Embedded Quicktime broken in Safari 5. Appears as Quicktime logo with question mark.

I've confirmed that everything works properly in Safari 4.0.5, Firefox, as well as on iPhone and iPad.

Test link is here. Scroll to bottom of page:

http://www.flockton.com/chris/demos_test.html

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

Chris.

iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jun 8, 2010 9:46 AM

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Jun 14, 2010 11:46 AM in response to Chris Flockton

You seem to have a very strange problem.

All of my embed src work just fine with .mp3 or .mov on 3 different servers and Hosting services.

However, your embed src does not work.
I can view your .mp3 using the full url
http://www.flockton.com/chris/demo/mp3/chrisflockton_promo2010.mp3

I even tried putting your url into an embed src on my site and it still doesn't work.
I have many embed src that works just fine. Can't figure out why yours doesn't.
For some reason, it doesn't display your url when it is embedded.

Sorry I couldn't help. I tried...

Jun 15, 2010 12:05 PM in response to Chris Flockton

Chris Flockton wrote:
I assume you're saying that embedded MP3s are only not working in Safari 5, right? That's what I'm finding at this end.


Actually, only yours aren't working for me.
All of my embedded MP3s and MOVs work just fine in Safari 5 and Snow Leopard 10.6.3

More investigation is needed to find out why yours aren't working.
Something in the code or the MP3 itself isn't registering properly.

Can you try a standard MP3 or MOV just for a test?

Jun 19, 2010 2:04 PM in response to Mark Dadmun

All of the links in this thread work fine for me. However, MP3s hosted on my TypePad blog trigger the "question mark" logo for me -- this is obviously extremely frustrating, as I use that blog as the main website for my band. Here is a link:

http://www.secretsocietymusic.org/Infernal_Machines/Zeno.mp3

Does this work for anyone in Safari 5? I keep getting the question mark.

If I open the link in Firefox, the file plays -- AND once I do that, if I reload the page in Safari, it also plays. Very frustrating!

Jun 19, 2010 10:46 PM in response to Darcy James Argue

BTW, I can confirm that the problem does not occur in Safari 4.x under Leopard, but does occur in Safari 4.x under Snow Leopard.

Removing the QuickTime Plugin obviously prevents the audio from playing from inside the browser, but does "solve" the problem by forcing the file to download (instead of play).

Firefox shares the same QuickTime Plugin as Safari, yes? I'm wondering why Firefox doesn't have this problem. I'm also wondering why successfully playing the file in Firefox makes it possible to play the file in Safari by reloading the page.

Safari 5 breaks embedded Quicktime player

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