Windows Media Player on Firefox

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

JJDJ — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:44:59 GMT

Hello,

I am using Vista Ultimate on a 64 bit operating system. I'm trying to find a a WMP 11 plug in for Firefox 3. Does this exist yet?

I can be reached at JJDJ@yahoo.com

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Rickthyne — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:22:35 GMT

So, i have a rig running vista and i use Firefox, recently the sound on FF stopped working . i can't get it to work. i tried to download the plug in but still i can't get sound. when i go to say you tube. i get video but no sound... i know i will forget to check this site plz email me at Rickthyne@gmail.com thanx ASAP plz i need it for college i m in school for music production!

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

whydontyouletmeusemyrealusername — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:04:06 GMT

I joined just to post this comment, but for some reason the username that I use on EVERY OTHER SITE ON THE INTERNET isn't allowed here. Somebody needs to get over using the letters god in a username.

Anyway...

I just tested the Firefox plugin mentioned here on Opera v9.25 on Vista Home Premium, and it works perfectly so far.

I installed the plugin with the installer, and it looks like Opera reads plugins from the firefox dir...

I found this text in the about page for Opera:

Plug-in path

C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Don Eddy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:22:36 GMT

A follow-up on my two earlier notes: If one uses the JavaScript code and the content of the object tag that is described in the current MSDN material and the WMP 11 SDK, the combination of the new Media Player Plugin for Firefox works exceptionally well. Avoid the older clsid for wmp 6, and use the new parameters for WMP 11. The JS code writes one object tag with parameters (which differ slightly for IE and FF) and no embed tags. Good work.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Don Eddy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:06:04 GMT

One additional point that may make a difference: the js code I am using came from MS Support doc 279022 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279022) Based on some MSDN material from WMP 11 SDK, that code may be out of date, and the window.GeckoActiveX may not apply to FF.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Don Eddy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:18:29 GMT

I do like the new plugin and am using it successfully on Windows XP w/Firefox 2.0 and WMP 11. However, installing the same plugin on a laptop with Windows XP - Media Center edition, other components being the same, only the <embed> tag works, <object> doesn't, and a JavaScript code writing (distinguishing between window.ActiveX and window.GeckoActiveX)can see the difference between IE and FF, but still doesn't write the <object> code -- I think it is because FF has the 'old' plugin (with DRM components), and they can't be removed. I would like to design web pages to use WMP and IE 7, but still support FF used by a few users, and not require them to do anything too technical. Installing plugin seems to be easy enough. Any insights?

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

MichaelH — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:28:08 GMT

Hi Nick

Can I ask you when some additional functionality might be added to Firefox WMV plugin.

This is support for cueing - ie in the link url: onclick='medPlayer.controls.currentposition=<seconds> to cue the player from an external source. We have apps that depend on this. The functionality is there with 2000, 2003 and xp ( and for flash) but not in Vista with WMV.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

raid517 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:19:30 GMT

The plugin does not work in all cases.

I am using 32 bit Vista home premium and when I try to play media via certain web pages I get the following error message when using 2.0.0.7 Firefox, it asks if I want to install missing plugins, but comes up with "no suitable plugins found. Unknown plugin (video/x-msvideo)"

A specific example of a non functioning web page can be found here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Kickoff-KDE-Menu-in-Kubuntu-Ubuntu-46601.shtml

Again while I am reading about Linux on this page, I am using Vista 32bit Home Premium.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

delta9-4hc — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:01:02 GMT

haha sorry about the wallpaper question, I found it after 15 minutes of looking

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

delta9-4hc — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:15:39 GMT

thanks Nick.

I was confused now re-reading my last posts because even when changing a common WMP ext. like the .wmv to open with the WMP plugin I would receive an error so even if firefox allowed me to create extension options (like windows extension options) I dont see how it would help.

On second thought my question should have been posted in the firefox forum since its more to do with the "open with' parameters rather than the WMP plugin configuration itself. (mayhaps?).

Thanks for getting back to me though ;)

and uhh P.S. do oyu know where can I get a copy of the background image of this page? I like it better than the other Tipso' wallpapers Ive seen :D

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

betamod — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:55:27 GMT

Thanks Nick,

Just saw your reply now. Don't have time to do this today but wmpnetwk.exe was acting up again not 15 minutes ago. I will send your Dev team the info you requested in the next few days. I assume that I don't have to wait for the wmpnetwk.exe to be acting in order to generate a log that is useful to diagnose this problem. Yes?

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Nick White — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:54:58 GMT

Hey delta9-4hc: I'm not ignoring you ;) -- I've relayed your inquiry to our FF plug-in team and they're reviewing it; I'll get back to you as soon as they reply.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

delta9-4hc — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:50:03 GMT

hello there again

Im not sure if Im being ignored or just passed over but if its my lack of clarity I apologize.

To be more detailed, I meant I had the Klite codec pack port ALL movie files to WMP.

..so when I directly open a FLV file in my browser I get prompted to open it with WMP 11.

Nothing too fancy really but I like WMP because of its library organization power, I have an iPod but I still prefer to use WMP when I can.

So Ill refine my question.

How can I configure the firefox WMP plugin to prompt me with the "open file "*" with WMP plugin" instead of "open file "*" with WMP.exe"

Is there already an easy way to do this? Am I missing something? My question seems to be along the likes of marsiglia's, trying to use the plugin to view flash files.

thanks again, sory to be a pest but Id appreciate some sort of reply

betamod, I agree totally. I think everyone like WMP to be more streamlined to reduce the need of multiple media players.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

marsiglia — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:03:46 GMT

When i discovered Rossman website (http://www.therossman.org/experiments/wmp_play.html), i was enthusiastic about this plugin.

But i found one caveat, when you access to this page by a window.open like

The audio is ok, but there's no video.

Does anyone know a turnaround ?

Thanks.

re: Windows Media Player on Firefox

Nick White — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:36:30 GMT

Hey betamod: Thanks for this information; my colleagues on the Dev team have looked into this and tell me that they can investigate futher if you're willing to generate logs and send them to me. Here's how to generate logs for subsequent emailing:

As an administrator, from a command prompt run these commands to enable tracing for WMP NSS, WMP and UPnP:

Code:

mkdir c:\Trace

echo {d804a67f-4c25-43c1-896f-89ff78b3a911} (0xFFFFFFFF) 7 > C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt

echo {8ed60a3a-8c12-49c5-a518-fdf451bc10fc} (0xFFFFFFFF) 7 >> C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt

echo {a7eb57f6-145e-4f18-bd75-dbbf6f7e23a7} (0xFFFFFFFF) 7 >> C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt

echo {a9c1a3b7-54f3-4724-adce-58bc03e3bc78} (0xFFFFFFFF) 7 >> C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt

echo {e176aa66-5cc8-4321-9624-f9c1d2b7bf06} (0xFFFFFFFF) 7 >> C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt

logman create trace WMPNSS_log -o c:\Trace\WMPNSSTrace.etl -pf C:\WMPNSSTrace.txt -bs 64 -nb 6 46

logman start WMPNSS_log

Note that the 'logman create' call may warn you that "The output file path specified for this collection does not exist. The "Performance Logs & Alerts" service will attempt to create this file path when the collection starts.". You can either ignore the warning or change "c:\Trace\WMPNSSTrace.etl" to a different path that does exist (but isn't the root of a drive).

THEN

THEN

As an administrator, from a command prompt run these commands:

Code:

logman stop WMPNSS_log

logman delete WMPNSS_log

THEN

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Trace

Right click on "WMPNSSTrace_000001.etl" and choose "Send To->" then "Compressed (zipped) Folder". The .etl file may be rather large, but it should compress very well.

You can send me a PM via the blog and I can tell you how to get the logs to me at that point.