2003R2 Dev web server will not play video

October 3, 2008

I'm going to try and explain this as best as I can...I'm stumped and need

some ideas. We have a marketing company who developed a presentation video

for us. We used a personal website on an XP box to test the launching of the

video and it worked fine - played audio and video and showed you the video

controls (play, pause, stop, etc). We then attempted to apply the same code

and files to our DEV and TEST webservers, both of which are running Windows

2003 R2 server. For whatever reason, the video will not play. Just a little

black screen and it doesn't even show the video controls. We then applied

the same code and files to a windows 2000 test box on a test site and the

video was able to be launched just fine. I am thinking that the Windows 2003

R2 servers are blocking something and I'm not sure what it could be.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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