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A friend's win2000 box died so I gave him an old XP box of mine.
I updated XP and installed the final rollup. All good. I installed the software he owned and all works well.
Finally ran IE-6 (I think, whatever the latest for XP is) and ran the direct IP command for his Samsung security cameras which loads an ActiveX from Samsung. All worked except pictures. Getting black boxes with Camera name, Date-Time etc, but no images of the live feed. Checked all settings in admin and all the same as the win2000.
I plugged in my win8.0 laptop to his network, ran IE-10, gave it the IP address and viola, life feed. Tried on my win8.1 Miix tablet, same again with IE-11, all good, getting live feed images.
Any thoughts and suggestions on what we need to do to get the pics on XP?
I have a win2000 in VMWare Player on laptop. I will try that later today and report back if any good news. Otherwise questions still stand.
Thanks
Alyce Johnson
Posted 2014-09-24T17:45:44.870
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Is the site asking him to install a plugin? As far as I know, H.264 video is not natively supported in either XP or in IE, and requires either a handling application or plugin. – music2myear – 2014-09-24T18:04:05.347
IE8 was the last version for XP. – Robin Hood – 2014-09-25T01:31:15.480
Installing Quicktime may add browser support for .mp4 with h.264 encoding, but you might need a newer browser. – Robin Hood – 2014-09-25T01:33:08.913
Thanks for the replies. Yes, it asks for and then installs a codec, The weird bit is that it works in w2000 and whatever version of IE it has and all the rest up to IE-11. Correct me if I am wrong, but ActiveX is an IE thing only? Yes? No? so no choices for browsers. – Alyce Johnson – 2014-09-25T15:38:43.457
ActiveX is a 'windows thing' – Tetsujin – 2014-09-26T17:57:22.337