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Problem playing embedded .avi movie in Firefox

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Hi all,

I hope someone can help me with this one as I've drawn a blank.

I am trying to get the following embedded avi. movie to look right in Firefox (2.0) on the Mac. The movie plays fine. However, I get ugly white borders to the left and right when playing:

http://www.bulletproof-design.com/clients/jackistorey/reelingMovieMacTest8.html

The same page works fine in 1E6+, FF 2.0+ on a PC and also in Safari on the Mac. It's only FF on the Mac that I have a problem with.

Here is the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Jacki Storey - Vanitas, Camera Obscura</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<META name="description" content="">
<META name="keywords" content="">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>

<body id="reeling">

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="352" HEIGHT="288" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="docs/avi/reeling.avi">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="false">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="docs/avi/reeling.avi" bgcolor="#000000" NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="352" HEIGHT="288" ShowControls="0" ShowStatusBar="0" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="1" wmode="transparent">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>


</body>

</html>

ANY help would be very much appreciated.
 
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It probably has to do with what codecs you have on your mac. I think I use some WMV thing for my mac called Flip4Mac. Go ahead and look that up.
 
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I can't even get that page to load...crashes Safari. I've used Flip4Mac to put stuff up on the web before. It reduces the size vastly, and it's way more compatible for everyone to view, but it costs about $50., otherwise you can't get more than 30 seconds in trial mode.
There's also some web site that will convert video to any format you want for free, but I can't remember the address....and, that could be cumbersome, if your file is huge.
 

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