Mozilla 1.5 and Windows Media Player

Sourbier Francis

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Apr 15, 2004, 3:25:01 AM4/15/04

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Hi,
I have trouble with Mozilla and Windows Media Player
.WMV files are openened (in text form) in a brother window and not in the
player.
My configuration:
Window 2000
Mozilla 1.5
Window Media Player 9

The command Help/About *Plugins seems to give interesting stuff but the
plugin does not work:
Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library
File name: npdsplay.dll
Npdsplay dll

If I download a .WMV file allis OK and Window Media Player start by a double
click on the filename.

Any idea ?
Thanks
Francis

joost68

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Apr 15, 2004, 12:48:20 PM4/15/04

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Same problem here, as I recall it has something to do with mime-types,
buth I never bothered to dig into the problem.
Hopefully, someone will give you (and me) a solution.
Cheers and good luck.
Joost

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Apr 16, 2004, 3:41:11 AM4/16/04

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joost68 wrote:

Dollars to donuts, the sites that DONT play automatically do have mis configured mime types on the server.
Many sites figure that since IE recognizes files suffixes such as .wmv, they dont have to assign the proper mime type to the file. Mozilla and other browsers dont rely on file types, but instead on the web standard mime type.

If you had some urls with examples I could be more specific

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Sourbier Francis

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Apr 16, 2004, 8:30:07 AM4/16/04

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"Moz Champion" <moz.ch...@sympatico.ca> a écrit dans le message de
news:r6Mfc.33337$K_.8...@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

and other browsers dont rely on file types, but instead on the web standard
mime type.
>
> If you had some urls with examples I could be more specific
>

This one, just for the fun:
http://www.la-grave.com/english/article.php?num_article=39

But I think that any URL pointing to .WMV files will do
Thanks

Hod

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Apr 16, 2004, 9:30:34 AM4/16/04

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Surely you don't think that anyone outside Moz newsgroups realises that
there is a world in which the Great Gates does not rule.

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.BRIAN.

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Apr 16, 2004, 9:34:12 AM4/16/04

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On 4/16/2004 9:30 AM Hod wrote:
> Surely you don't think that anyone outside Moz newsgroups realises that
> there is a world in which the Great Gates does not rule.
>

Uh... Linux maybe?

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Leonidas Jones

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Apr 19, 2004, 2:14:27 PM4/19/04

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NO this is not a problem with any WMV file. If the server is configured
correctly, the file will play, but this server is sending it as
text/plain, so Mozilla is doing just that.

The workaround is to right click and save the file to you hard drive.
You can then open it with WMP.

Firefox 0.8 and Moz 1.7b both have this fixed. The browser sniffs the
file and offers to download it and open it in yourt default media player.

Lee
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Moz Champion

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Apr 20, 2004, 3:23:21 AM4/20/04

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Surely you don't think that anyone outside the colonies realises that
there is a world in which the Great George does not rule.

Its simply paraphrasing what you said, and showing that where there is a will, there is a way.