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Hi...
My daughter sent me the following link <http://beverlys.net/LJ/BuggingYou.swf> When I try to play it all I get is the visual, no sound. Has anyone encounterd this problem, and know of a solution?
Thanks,
John
Hi FJ,
I don't think so. It's a fresh install of 98se. Is that the best route to go. This is a low end pentium 2 with only 128 mbs of memory. I get the movie, all I need is sound to go with it.
John
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Irfanview (seems like), but generally - sure, just install the plugin for your browser of choice
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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jboy
Hey, far too easy to forget abot Irfan....John
Irfan is a good choice, unlikely to have any hangups on even a low spec machine and it is an excellent program - lots of "useful" facilities. You just tick the SWF extension in Options/Properties.DerekW
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Sure - it's like "the Swiss Army knife" of multimedia - still:
"a low end pentium 2 with only 128"
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Seriously - the posted specs aren't exactly 'low end'. My first Win95 machine (486 - 20Mb), now that was scraping by.
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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Gentlemen,
Well, Irfanview opens it alright, but not when I click on the Outlook shortcut. Outlook open IE and I get a blank page with a square containing a circle, square, and triangle in the upper left corner. But, when I tell Irfanview to open the the temporary internet file - buggingyou.swf, it works like a charm.
John
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Well, I suppose that at least gives you a workaround, although you need to copy it out of Temporary Internet Files if you want to keep it, in case they get cleared.
Are you going online when you hit the link in Outlook?
If not either go online before you do so, or from the IE screen go to File/Work Offline, untick it and hit the IE Go button to put yourself online. I've found that you can't rely on IE running everything that is in TIF's once you are offline.This still leaves the "no sound when online" question outstanding, unless something has changed.
DerekW
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You gave your CPU as 416 and I wonder if you meant 486.
In which case I agree you have limitations. Difficult to say if IE55 will help but if you go that way make it SP2 because the first one was troublesome. It will imporove your security if nothing else.
Suggestion #1 sounds rather more like it to me but I suppose it might be a later version .swf file that the original IE5 doesn't understand - worth a go I reckon.
DerekW
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I imagine that would be the MHz, since the CPU was described as 'a low end pentium 2'
Should be good enough to run XP (after a fashion)
Anyways - good ol' Irfanview, a really decent little proggie. It still could be that the IE flash plugin needs to be updated - that, or some pesky setting
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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Ah yes, 416 MHz PentII sounds likely.
Not been there lately but feel sure there is a list of plug-ins on the Irfan website.
DerekW
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Gentlemen,
All the plugins are installed. As I say - Irfanview will play the temporary internet explorer SWF file, but the Oulook link doesn't play.
Thank you all for your help. At least I can make it work now.
John
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You should have just listened to me and clicked the link I gave you. Shockwave would have downloaded and installed and everything would have worked perfect.
John you got side-tracked by kids your daughters age probably.
The file she sent you was made for the Shockwave programming. That's why I sent it to you.
I have many hundreds of children under my care and I can tell you they love to try new stuff. Like using a program like Irfanview where you have to adjust this setting or uncheck that box to make this work, or any number of tweaks to make something simple work.
As long as you have it working now, that's fine. What about next time.
FJ
(Father John)
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No problem with the Shockwave install as the immediate answer (I did endorse this).
Having said that you will never regret having on board the most versatile and useful free viewer you can get your hands on.
DerekW
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I'll download it and see what you guys are boasting about. I have no doubt that it's a great program.
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It's not too late to go to the link FJ gave you. You can always untick SWF file extension in Irfan first if there is some thought that this might interefere with this suggestion.
There are few "tweaks" as such in Irfan, just facilities to view many file types, run slideshows, turn pictures etc. As an aside to your post I have also found that dodgy picture files will often open in Irfan and if you save them they then open in other programs too.
DerekW
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check this link out:
http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?s=430602de5dd9da3a0ef6ec077adfba46&showtopic=6835&pid=38102&st=0&#entry38102this seems to fix the problem in Linux but not sure what to do in windows.... i have the same problem also. it's not the shockwave player thing either. i have it installed perfectly fine.
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Hi guy with the same pr (by SumGuy)- I couldn't figure out how to apply this to windows.
Hi Derek - That download didn't change anything. I still have the visual, without audio.
John
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Did you ever try FJ's link in #1? He was emphatically certain that this would solve your problems (see #14). I'm out of ideas so if you haven't done so already then try it.
As I said before you can always untick .swf in Irfan before you do this, so then it will not affect the outcome in any way.
DerekW
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Well gentlemen, I have tried all the suggestions, and nothing seems to activate the sound. I have several other softwares that play sound well, so it seems to be specific to this format. Thank you all for your help.
John
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