Ah probably wrong of me to use the word Null. I mean in non-tech speak 'nothing; or 'blank'. If that's what an 'empty string' is how do I enter one in the field please?

Non-techie answer: Your mp4 files are played with FlowPlayer because, starting in 2.4.3, the template defines its usage instead of Silverlight. Flash, which is what FlowPlayer uses, has a much higher install rate than Silverlight, so I decided to use that for all file types that Flash supported.

How you enter an empty string depends on what SQL tool you are using. You can also try entering a single space.

Installed WebMatrix and tried editing the gs_BrowserTemplate replacing the text in HtmlTemplate for .MP4 with that from a line that contained MimeType='audio/*' and BrowserId='ie'.

Then removed the text in ScriptTemplate for .MP4 so that it matched the abscence of any script text for the record that had MimeType='audio/*' and BrowserId='ie'

Tried loading GSP in my browser and got a message pop up saying it had encountered an error and that an email had been sent provided that feature had been switched on. Since I don't have an SMTP server no such email could be sent. Is the error recorded in a log file somewhere?

Or can you tell from my steps above where I might have gone wrong?

Cheers.

Hi

Sorry been away this last week. Restored backup of database and could load and log in again but the log file is empty. I'll re-edit from scratch and see if I can replicate.

Does the video eventually work? Do smaller videos work?

In general, I am not a fan of the WMP plug-in, primarily because so few browsers have it installed. I don't recommend it unless you can guarantee all your users are using IE.

I am not sure what GSP can do differently to speed things up. It uses the same mechanism to send data to all plug-ins, so if one plug-in behaves poorly, that doesn't leave much of an option for dealing with it.

About the only thing you might try is to modify the template (table gs_BrowserTemplate) to use {MediaObjectAbsoluteUrlNoHandler} instead of {MediaObjectUrl}. That will cause the browser to request the media object through a direct URL (e.g. http://site.com/gs/mediaobjects.myvideo.avi) instead of through the handler. You can read more about modifying the template in the Admin Guide (look for the section 'Rendering media objects in the browser).

Sure, you can do that. You can have it render a hyperlink, which will cause the browser to download it and open it with whatever application is registered for that file type. This is similar to how Word documents are rendered (see Word doc sample).

If you look in gs_BrowserTemplate for the template for Word docs, you'll see this:

<p style="margin-bottom:5em;"><a href="{MediaObjectUrl}" title="Download {TitleNoHtml}">Download {TitleNoHtml}</a></p>

Copy and paste that into the record for the file type you want to update (mp4?).