I need to try the latest version of Internet Explorer on my machine as I cannot get an AVI file on my GoDaddy Website Tonight website to run at all with Firefox or Safari. See:
http://www.youngmastersgallery.com/NOOSA_ENVIRONMENTAL_DVD.html
I've been fobbed-off by Godaddy in Arizona, as they take no responsibility for the issue. Apparently the video runs perfectly well in USA on PC with Internet Explorer.
If you look at the web page you can see that the Go and Pause buttons are blue and thus alive, as also the audio button in red when activated.
File size is about 28MB and i'm using 1500 kbps Broadband.
I took the advice of Ora and tried Opera,Shiira,Camino and Sea Monkey. None will play my AVI video. Some display the Red hexagon and hand with 'The Playlist format is not recognized'.
I will try and convert it to one of the other 2 upload options of mpg or mwv.
Hello again, interested folks!
I've made some progress on the strength of your observations, but I'm not 'there' yet.
I've achieved the following:
(a) I've converted in OSX 10.4.11, some new sample video clips which i've stitched together from my documentary DVD; i.e., the Cinepak codec to DivX. (Cinepak was my only option in Quicktime, to export AVI from Final Cut Pro 2.0 in OS 9.1). I have another website which is hosted by GoDaddy, so I uploaded the DivX files to the server 'Content' using my other operating system OSX 10.4.11, (using the same G450 machine). The files are all under 30 MB as required by the GoDaddy 'Website Tonight' template. (I have had Windows Media Player in my Applications Folder for some considerable time).
(b) Any video clip now opens instantly using Safari, and plays back perfectly. What I get is a black square representing the player screen and a very narrow dashboard. If I dare to scroll however, I get 'tiling' or partial black fields scattered up and down the page depicting 'stills' from the movie which have just been played-back. This is ugly of course, but at least instant playback tells me the problem rests with the Internet Browsers.
(c) When trying to open in Firefox I get a blank screen as indicated by 'Mister Me' some days ago. The beach ball rolls on for exactly 3 minutes before a black square appears, whereupon perfect playback is rendered possible. This situation must be of course infuriating for any viewer, as their computer is frozen for 3 minutes.
(d) I forget on which alternate browser, perhaps Camino or the old Internet Explorer for Mac, but I experienced the identical 3 minute delay mentioned above in (c), again. Other browsers immediately threw up a demand to download Windows Media Player, which I already have. Curious!
(e) It seems like the only safe way to protect Mac-user-viewers is to place a red warning sign above the video-clip which says something like 'Mac-users please STOP if using an Internet Browser other than Safari. Switch over immediately, as you may freeze your computer for 3 whole minutes.'
I've looked at the Firefox Help section but don't see much about video. For such an important browser it would be nice to get instant playback.
Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated. I don't give up easily.