Mediaplayer does not play movie on XP, it does on Win7

Question

I have a Mediaplayer object in a Fx 2.1 beta application.
It links to a MP4 movie and plays perfectly on my Win7 development laptop, but it fails to play ( white space ) on my target deployment XP machine.
The MP4 plays on the XP box in Media Player, so it is not a codec issue ( I think ).
Anyone ?

Answer 1

I tried to use a WebView with a HTML embedding a video, that does not work either. I guess the JavaFx Webbrowser does not support <Embed>If the video plays in the JavaFX MediaPlayer it will also play inside a WebView, just use the html5 video tag rather than an embed tag.
The following application will play a VP6 encoded FLV inside a WebView.
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class WebViewVideo extends Application {
  public static void main(String[] args) { Application.launch(args); }
  @Override public void start(Stage stage) {
    WebView root = new WebView();
    root.getEngine().loadContent(
      "<video width='320' height='240'controls='controls'>" +
        "<source src='http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/javafx/oow2010-2.flv'/>" +
      "</video>");
    stage.setScene(new Scene(root, 340, 260));
    stage.show();
}