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I tried watching Quicktime movies in both CoolVL Viewer & Firestorm and they would not play. I downloaded the latest Second Life Viewer as suggested to test it and the movies played fine in that viewer with no problems at all. I'd rather be able to watch them in CoolVL viewer than have to relog using another viewer. I love CoolVL Viewer.
Here is the info requested.
Cool VL Viewer 1.26.2 (17) Feb 14 2012 13:52:18 (Cool VL Viewer)
Release Notes

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (2672.75 MHz)
Memory: 12280 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce GTS 250/PCI/SSE2
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0012.8562
OpenGL Version: 3.3.0

libcurl Version: libcurl/7.20.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
J2C Decoder Version: KDU
Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000
Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded

This report is *useless* with proper logs and repro steps. See the rules for this forum before posting a bug report...

Also, please note that media on a prim is not yet implemented in the Cool VL Viewer, so if you are using an item that requires media on a prim, it's normal it doesn't work.

Sorry about that.. lets hope this helps:) The log File attached.
Also steps I took.
I own a Leva40 2 Vea Digital TV that can play flash movies as well as Quicktime movies.
I can watch Flash ones fine in Cool VL but not the Quicktime movies.
I installed Firestorm and got the exact same result.
I then did what you suggested and installed the Second Life Viewer and both Flash and Quicktime movies played fine.
Sorry for the troubles.

This indeed helps a lot understanding what happened. Your trouble comes from:
Which means the media is not held on the same site as the one referencing it and the viewer didn't know how to handle that. To summarize: movies will not play on sites not hosting the movies themselves (but you should be able to play the said movies from their actual host sites).

It looks like quite some changes have been done since LL's viewer v2.7 (the one upon which the Cool VL Viewer's media implementation is based), which explains the differences you see with LL's current viewer (and also the fact that Firestorm doesn't do better than the Cool VL Viewer since Firestorm is not on par with LL's current viewer either in this respect).

I'll see what can be done (an overhaul of viewer media is due anyway, since MOAP will also get backported to the Cool VL Viewer at some point), but for now, I just backported a small bugfix (that will probably not solve your issue) from v3.2, dealing with sites not returning any media type (which also breaks media playing in some cases).

But this could be a simple convertion from an URL like

http://some.server/playme?id_of_the_media_thingy

to some URL like

http://some.server/allthemediastuffhere ... 7434ff.mp3

or

http://mymediadata.some.server/alltheme ... 7434ff.mp3

and that should work, no?

For details about 302 replies, just search for "HTTP 302" in a search engine (example).

The 302 redirection is just not taken into account in "old" (2.7 viewers and before) viewer media code.