Appendix 2

Compatibility

About Compatibility

For correct playback of streaming video on client machines, please read the compatibility notes on this page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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USER GUIDE

 

Platform and Browser Version Compatibility

 

Recommended Player Versions

OS

Browser

QuickTime

Windows Media

Real Media

Check the platform,

Content Type

Recommended Player

browser and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAC

FireFox 1.5 and

Yes

No

No

browser version,

Windows Media content

Windows Media Player

higher

 

 

 

then select the

9.x or 10.x

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mozilla FireFox 1.0

Yes

Yes

Yes

appropriate

Real Media content

RealPlayer™ One

 

streaming format

 

and higher

 

 

 

 

 

WIN

 

 

 

for content creation

QuickTime content

QuickTime 6 or 7

Internet Explorer 6.0,

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

and playback

 

 

 

and higher

 

 

 

according to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

compatibility matrix.

 

 

Playback of archive (ASF format) content

Playback of Windows Media Content in Mozilla Firefox

Platform: Windows® XP

Browser version: Internet Explorer (all versions) and Mozilla Firefox (all versions).

Streaming content format: Windows Media content from archiving calls (ASF format).

The TANDBERG Codec Pack must be installed on client machines to play back archiving Windows Media content (ASF format).

The TANDBERG Codec Pack is available for download by all Content Server users from this location: Help>Conference Test Page.

Administrators also have access to a distributed Codec Pack version, TAACodecPack_Dist.msi, from this location on the Content Server: C:\Program Files\TANDBERG\ ContentServer\CodecPack. The distributed Codec Pack installer performs a ‘silent’ installation, with no user action required at the end of the installation.

Download details

Name: TAACodecPack.msi or TAACodecPack_Dist.msi.

Type: Windows Installer Package.

Publisher: TANDBERG

Version:1.0.0

Date:20/09/2006

Size:3.4MB

Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP.

Platform: Windows.

Browser version: Mozilla Firefox (all versions).

Streaming content format: Windows Media content from transcoding (WMV format) and archiving calls (ASF format).

Mozilla Firefox browsers require ActiveX® control plugin to be installed to display movies in Windows Media® WMV and ASF formats.

The following ActiveX plugin for Mozilla Firefox has been tested – Adam Lock’s ActiveX Plugin for Firefox, available as a free download at the time of publishing this user guide.

To find the download site, either type “Adam Lock’s ActiveX Plugin for Firefox” as a search string in your search engine, or follow the instructions for installing and checking the Active X plugin installation from the MozillaZine Forum Index -> Firefox Support page at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213

From this page, you can click on either “Warp to ActiveX Plugin” or “Installing the ActiveX plugin” in the Contents List to find the correct version for your Mozilla Firefox browser to download and install.

!

ActiveX®plugins are browser-version specific. If users

download the

wrong version of the plugin, this can break their browser.

 

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