Hi Brian,

Did a live webcast this morning with video and slides; very successful! But at one point, an odd thing happened. On one viewer's computer, the screen capture image suddenly replaced the video in the video window, so there were two instances of the screen capture image on the screen, one overlapping the other. This all happened within the normal SW page; that is, it wasn't being played directly in WMP or anything like that. Any ideas what might have happened?

Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks much for the feedback from your broadcast. I am thinking one of 2 things could have happened. But I would need to see a screen grab of the problem to be sure.

By default if you play a SW generated ASF file by itself, SW will launch an external window to display the screen recording. So my first assumption is that SW could not find it's approriate activex to connect to to display the screen in the right place.

I don't know of any way that the screen could display in the video window because the wm player doesn't know how to display our content...

So here is my theory:

1. If the html code was reworked sufficiently, it might cause this problem. The order in which we do the Object statements for the 2 activex loads (one is for the wm player, the other is for ieswplay, the screen display you see in the browser), could pop up our external window. We depend on the wm player activex to be loaded first, then it in turn searches for the instance of our activex to send screen content to. So if this was reversed, you might see some funny things.

2. Another possibility is they were using firefox (which doesn't support wm playback of our content), or another thing is an old version of windows media player (pre version 9).

Does any of this make sense that it could have happened?

Or could they have opened up the wm player by itself and seen this?

Thanks,
Brian