Firefox won't play my movie

Windows Movie Player and Fireforx

[dave_h]

Hi everyone

FF 1.0 won't play my windows media player movie I created. It's a local problem. It plays ok on line. Off line, pressing play does nothing.

I recently downloaded XP SP2 and not sure if it has to do with it.

my embedded code below...[< > removed]

OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject"

PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="video/demo.wmv"

embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/
contents/wurecommended/s_wufeatured/mediaplayer/default.asp" SRC="video/demo.wmv"
Name=MediaPlayer
ShowControls=1
ShowDisplay=1
ShowStatusBar=1
Autostart=0
width=320 height=290
/embed /OBJECT

Thanks
Dave

[tforcram]

I can't really help you specifically, but I recently had a similar problem in reverse. A movie (actually it was a flash movie) played fine locally, but online it just gave an error message. It had something to do with object tags and locally acessing files etc, but it looks like you have everything coded up right.

Then again, SP2 should only effect IE and not firefox specifically, but I could be wrong.

[grelmar]

I think it might actually be an SP2 problem. I've noticed general Javascript and Java App failures when trying to access them from my own machine through any browser (IE, FF, etc) on an SP2 system, but they all work fine when put online.

My solutions, either:

A) Get a cheap discarded pII or pIII, load it with win 98 or *nix, for local testing (if it's a pII, go *nix, unless you want to spend all day for things to happen - 95 and up just grind those old machines to a halt. Even a very modern distro of *nix with a nice graphical desktop will run everything much quicker). You can pick up pII and pIII's for next to nothing.

or

B) Use the force. Believe in your code, accept that SP2 is screwing with you, and have a "black hole" in some backwater directory of your site to load and test things before putting them "live" on the front, active part of your site.

[dave_h]

Yes you are correct. I had a hunch that it was SP2. It even froze the first time I downloaded it and I was force to manual reboot the machine. I knew that spelled bad news but I had not choice.

So I had to reisntall all my drivers as a result. I did not learn my lesson so I downloaded SP2 again but it went through ok.

I even created a restore point once SP2 was installed.

I understand that they are now working on better security etc but I still think I could do without it for a while.

There must be a better way.

And oh yes I already have a PIII that I used for certain tasks so I can easily edit on that machine no problem. Or just create a separate page on the site for testing until all lights are green.

Thanks for the tip guys!

BTW what is *nix?

Dave

[grelmar]

>>BTW what is *nix?

Linux/Unix

[dave_h]

Thanks again

dave

[amznVibe]

To get firefox or mozilla or opera to play windows media on embed statements, do this:

search your hard drive for npdsplay.dll
usually found under \Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll
but not always, depends on your OS and config

then copy it to your firefox plugins folder
\Program Files\firefox\plugins
(but not always located there, depending on where you installed it)

same thing for mozilla \mozilla\plugins\

similar for opera \opera\program\plugins\

Remember to close and restart the browser to make it load.
Then it should work perfectly on most pages that don't only specify active-X.

(also double check your path in the embed statement you are using above)

[dave_h]

Ok I tried your instructions but my video still won't play.

Thanks for additional help.

Dave