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DavidJT

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This is an ASUS desktop PC with Windows 7 Ultimate and IE11.
I have numerous .html files that each load a video movie.
They work fine except for all the .html files in a directory named movies
---
None of them load the movie, I just get a black screen with an "X" where the movie
should appear.

I would be pleased if someone can help me with this problem.
 
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Scottray, An HTML file is not a webpage, it is a file that contains a link to
(in this case) a movie file such as a WMV file.
Here is a simple example of an HTML file so that you can understand what
they are.


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>

<style type="text/css">
a:link { color: lightblue; }
a:visited { color: green; }
a:hover { color: brown; }
overflow: auto;
BODY {

overflow: auto;
font-family: "arial"; }
</Style>

<title>Queen Top Ten Songs</title>


<head>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
f {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 18px;
background: #000000;
color: white;
line-height: 18px;
}
fo {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 15px;
background: #8b4512;
color: white;
line-height: 18px;
}

g {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 18px;

background: #000000;
color: red;
line-height: 15px;
}

j {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 15px;

background: #000000;
color: white;
line-height: 15px;
}
k {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 13px;

background: black;
color: white;
line-height: 15px;
}


m {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 13px;


color: blue;
line-height: 15px;
}

m:hover {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 13px;


color: #006600;
line-height: 15px;
}


m1 {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 11px;


color: #00ffff;
line-height: 15px;
}
m1:hover {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 11px;

background: #8b4512;
color: #00ffff;
line-height: 15px;
}

m2 {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 17px;


color: #00ffff;
line-height: 15px;
}
m2:hover {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 17px;

background: #000000;
color: #00ff00;
line-height: 15px;
}


n {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 12px;


color: #ffffff;
line-height: 15px;
}

blue {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 12px;


color: #00ffff;
line-height: 15px;
}


z {
font-family: arial;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
background: #000000;
color: lightblue;
line-height: 18px;
}

-->
</style>


</head>
<body bgcolor="black">

<div align="left">
<IMG src="dtlogo.jpg" alt="">

<IMG src="transparent80.gif" alt=""><IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt="">
<IMG src="transparent80.gif" alt=""><IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt="">
<IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt=""><IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt="">
<IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt=""><IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt="">
<IMG src="transparent10.gif" alt="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<span><f>Queen Top 10</f</span>
</div>
<hr align="left" width="100%" size="1" noshade color="red">
<br><br>
<div align="center">
<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="710" HEIGHT="535" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
<STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="queentop10.mp4">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="queentop10.mp4" NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="710" HEIGHT="535" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="1"> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</div>

</body>
</html>


 
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HTML is the 'language' a webpage (and other things) is written in.
HyperText Markup Language

Your HTML code above shows a reference (a relative address), to a filename called "queentop10.mp4"

The actual mp4 file, which is the actual video, is not contained in this HTML.
So...where is this mp4 that you have 'downloaded'?

Where did you 'download' this from?
 
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Thanks USAFRet - you put what I was trying to say in better words! I know exactly what HTML is. What I was trying to point out is the DavidJT is mixing up technologies. The html code that was downloaded is the code that creates/displays the webpage. It's not the movie/.mp4 file itself. Depending on the site and it's policies, one can download the video file. Downloading just the html file does not download the video file.
 
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I do not understand why several posters are referring to downloads and downloaded.
The files and folders are all on my PC.
There is another almost identical PC in my wife's office.
The movies loaded in html files on that PC show up perfectly.
 
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Because most people do not use an HTML interface to launch files that live on their local PC.

So...if you click on the hyperlink that should launch this WMV, but instead you get a black X...there are a couple of things that could be wrong.

1. The HTML is incorrectly coded, and doesn't point to where the file exists
2. The WMV file is in the wrong folder, or does not exist
3. The WMV file is, in fact, not a functioning WMV file
4. Your system and/or browser is missing some plug in needed to render the playback of this file

So which is it?
Who or what created this HTML file?
 
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I don't see any sort of path or href in that html. As an example, C:/Users/(youraccount)/queentop10.mp4 Without a specified path, I think they'll default to the current folder as the root tree. So if the associated files aren't in the same folder, they won't load. That would also apply to libraries I believe. If they work on your wife's machine, compare both the html source, and also the actual file locations of the movies they target. They may be different on her machine as compared to yours.
 
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