media streaming

allright, i have both joomla and phpbb installed, streaming does not work on either one. the files have to be downloaded to play, thats fine for the forum, not so much for the joomla site. one of my editors wants to add music to one of her posts. so ive tryd http streaming with no luck. i enabled quicktime streaming and have a problem. it only supports quictime (duh) thing is i thought quick time would stream mov, rm, ram, and aac files, so i converted the mp3 to an aac file with no luck, and i cant find a FREE mp3 to mov converter. any idea's? i really wanted to just be able to upload the files for um and that be it.

Make sure she's embedding the audio into the posts correctly.
<EMBED src="file.mp3" autostart=true hidden=true> (or something similar).

If the syntax used looks correct, yet it still fails to stream, you can try adding a MIMETYPE in the .htaccess file:
AddType application/octet-stream mp3




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thank you! i had to add the mime type. but we cant add the player to any post, for some reason joomla is removing it.

You may need a plugin to embed in J! - it probably strips unknown html for security purposes.




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thing is where using tiny mce's own code. after doing some googling it seems this is a known issue with very few solutions. the only one that seems to work is to use JCE and ofcourse the media section of jce is a subscription item.

Are you able to embed flash into posts?




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dont have any flash to try. just tryd out dreamhosts flash option and got "We can't convert non-.avi/.mov/.mpeg/.mpg files .. or URLs with blank spaces" even tho there own support suggest it for this mp3.

soo looks like ill have to pay for JCE, i just wish they had a list of all the plugins youl get access to. and im out of idea's.


all so if i look at the page source i can see the element DOES post, but it dosent work. theres a blank section where it should be.

thanks for tryin to help. apreciate it.

If she can embed flash in her posts I can knock you up a little swf player that'll call an mp3. She can just embed the player.swf and upload her mp3 into an /audio/ directory or an internal J! media directory if one exists. Ask her what she wants it to look like, it's no trouble - and cheaper than paying for JCE.




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negative. when i tryd to embed a youtube vid the whole code showd up instead of the player.