wmp plugin kills Pocket IE

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Chris Overman - 06 Mar 2004 11:59 GMT

The pda in question is a ipaq 4150.
Right after configuring the OS (PPC 2003) I installed the Windows Media
Player ActiveX plugin for Pocket Internet Explorer.
Upon accessing a webpage in which the Windows Media control is loaded,
Pocket Internet Explorer just shuts down and I'm kicked backed to the
startup desktop screen. Pocket IE is not resident in memory.

I pinpointed the problem down to the PARAM tags lines: when I comment out
*only* all of the param tags, the control will load, but of course nothing
happens as no param-tag for the filename etc. is set. If however I only show
1 of the param-tags -no matter which one-, IE shuts down ! (If I include a
fake param tag, like:
<param name="nonexistentparamname" value="whatever"> the webpage is shown
including the non-functioning control).

Thus, it seems that valid param-tags are the problem !!! This seems to me
like a bug in the plugin or PPC 2003 (or combination), however, the original
code does work on my ipaq 5450 (PPC2002) and on my Windows XP laptop ...
(the code is as elementary as can be).

Has anyone, any suggestions ?

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Moreno Borsalino - 08 Mar 2004 13:01 GMT

I have the same problem and it's long time i am waiting a
solution. I hope that someone in Microsoft reply to this
problem. Someone must also tell if the current Media
Player PocketPC Activex version is compatible with
PocketPC 2003 in other case please write a red note on
the download page to avoid to install it.
Moreno

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Tobias Scheck - 16 Apr 2004 19:07 GMT

hi,
I had the same problem, here's a workaround that fixed the problem for my purpouses.
IE crashes as soon as a valid param-tag is nested within the object-tag, so I placed only the object-tag in the html page. All other settings like setting the FileName, ShowControls, ... are done using JScript - that works! JScript samples can be found in the Windows Media Player for Pocket PC SDK.

Hope that works for you, too.
Tobias
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> I have the same problem and it's long time i am waiting a
> solution. I hope that someone in Microsoft reply to this
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> the download page to avoid to install it.
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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 16 Apr 2004 23:28 GMT

Thats useful, I'll give it a try. Is this WM2003 you are referring to
where the crashes are no longer happening ?

Cheers - Neil.

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