[desktop-discuss] browser should support embed wavs.

Thu Nov 30 11:34:35 PST 2006

Hi,
        Got b51 on x86 running nicely and confirmed sound is working fine in general.  Unfortunately, the web browsers included in the system are both unable to play the embedded wavs produced by nagios alerts.  I really would like to see this addressed.  It's forcing me to use an entire other computer to watch the services where I work.  Now I've researched it a bit and have established that Mozilla and Firefox both support embed sounds on other systems.  Firefox even offers to install "additional plugins" to handle the content type, but when I agree to do it, it can't find any.  Isn't there something you folks who understand the inner working of the desktop can do to add this feature?  Please correct me if I'm off base here, but I think it's really quite abnormal in this day and age to have a web browser that can't play embedded sounds.

Here's the html that Nagios spits to generate the page with embedded wavs:

HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Nagios Tactical Monitoring Overview
</TITLE>
<LINK REL='stylesheet' TYPE='text/css' HREF='/nagios/stylesheets/common.css'>
<LINK REL='stylesheet' TYPE='text/css' HREF='/nagios/stylesheets/tac.css'>
</HEAD>
<BODY CLASS='tac' marginwidth=2 marginheight=2 topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0>

<EMBED SRC='/nagios/media/critical.wav' HIDDEN=TRUE AUTOSTART=TRUE><p align=left>
<table border=0 align=left width=100% cellspacing=4 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td align=left valign=top width=50%>
<TABLE CLASS='infoBox' BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0>
<TR><TD CLASS='infoBox'>
<DIV CLASS='infoBoxTitle'>Tactical Monitoring Overview</DIV>

Last Updated: Thu Nov 30 14:43:40 EST 2006<BR>

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