Playing mp3 in IE8 works sometimes and sometimes not

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Posted: Tue, 2012-02-07 21:38 Matt

Hi,

I created a fiddle to demonstrate the issue and I was able to replicate it on diffrent machines with IE8 (other browsers seem to work as expected - autoplay the file every time you visit):
http://jsfiddle.net/FFyCY/

Sometime when you run this jsfiddle the audio plays and the "state" button will display "PLAYING".
But some other times it will NOT play and the state will be "undefined".

Even a click on the "play" is not able to start it.
The player seems to be created correctly in the dom.

Any ideas?

Posted: Wed, 2012-02-08 13:48 Ethan LongTail

This seems to work for me. Maybe if you embed this on an actual page the issue might go away for you?

Posted: Wed, 2012-02-08 19:05 Matt

One of our clients discovert this and we were finaly able to replicate it.
I noticed that the css in the jsfiddle wasn't quite correct and I updated it.
It seemsd to have something to do with the width and height of 0.

As soon as I change this in the developer tools in IE8 to 1 the jwplayer would start playing the audio.

Here the new fiddle width width/height 0:
http://jsfiddle.net/FFyCY/2

Posted: Wed, 2012-02-08 19:18 Ethan LongTail

You can't use 0 for the width/height with the player. It isn't supported. They have to be at least 1.

Posted: Wed, 2012-02-08 19:42 Matt

Yeah, that's what we have change it to now.

We had no trouble in the past with this and it only happend since we updated to 5.8.

Thanks for clarification.

Posted: Thu, 2012-02-09 15:03 Ethan LongTail

Playing mp3 in IE8 works sometimes and sometimes not

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