Cannot install Windows Media Plugin

[BadHead]

I asm having trouble installing the WMP plugin in order to play WMP media
online. How would I do this? What DLL would I need to copy into my plugins
folder?

Thanks.

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[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:10:47 +0200, BadHead wrote:

> I asm having trouble installing the WMP plugin in order to play WMP
> media online. How would I do this? What DLL would I need to copy into my
> plugins folder?

If a recent version of WMP is properly installed, Opera should find it on
install. The files npdsplay.dll and npwmsdrm.dll and npds.zip will be
placed automatically in Opera's plugin folder.

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[Robin Zalek]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:19:18 +0100, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<ri...@opera-dot-com.invalid> wrote:

> If a recent version of WMP is properly installed, Opera should find it
> on install. The files npdsplay.dll and npwmsdrm.dll and npds.zip will be
> placed automatically in Opera's plugin folder.

If they can be found, why does Opera need copies; why not load them from
that location (as is done with the Quicktime, Real, and DivX plugins)?

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[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:11:21 +0200, Robin Zalek wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:19:18 +0100, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
> <ri...@opera-dot-com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> If a recent version of WMP is properly installed, Opera should find it
>> on install. The files npdsplay.dll and npwmsdrm.dll and npds.zip will
>> be placed automatically in Opera's plugin folder.
>
> If they can be found, why does Opera need copies; why not load them from
> that location (as is done with the Quicktime, Real, and DivX plugins)?

I don't know that. AFAIK the in-place support for the latter was added
much more recently.

[Mark V]

In opera.plugins Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:11:21 +0200, Robin Zalek wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:19:18 +0100, Rijk van Geijtenbeek
>> <ri...@opera-dot-com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> If a recent version of WMP is properly installed, Opera should
>>> find it on install. The files npdsplay.dll and npwmsdrm.dll
>>> and npds.zip will be placed automatically in Opera's plugin
>>> folder.
>>
>> If they can be found, why does Opera need copies; why not load
>> them from that location (as is done with the Quicktime, Real,
>> and DivX plugins)?
>
> I don't know that. AFAIK the in-place support for the latter was
> added much more recently.

And I (just for me) hate it. I want Opera to use _only_ what I give
it and not add multiple "other" locations. Just steam, I am in the
minority I am sure and will continue to "hide" (zip up) some
bothersome DLLs elsewhere on disk as needed. But this behavior ought
to be an _option_ I suggest.

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Mark V <notv...@nul.invalid> writes:

Valid point, but as you say, you are a minority. Most people just
want something that works without having to touch the configuration.
This means that opera has to try to find everything that the user
might want to use and activate it by default. It makes sense to have
an option to turn off anything you don't want, though.

I don't know much about the prefs in the windows version. In the unix
version, you can specify which paths opera should look for plug-ins
in. Though I think it may magically add some paths in some cases...

Trying to keep ones customers happy is a great exercise in tightrope
walking :)

eirik