Firefox Codecs in Vista


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I can't stream anything from the BBC using Firefox in Vista. It keeps telling me I need to download missing codecs. When I try to let it find them it comes up with (application/x-mplayer2)

I have Media Player 11 installed, and have also installed the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack to try and get things working, but to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

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I think it's a problem both in Opera and FF. they don't really want to itnerface with mplayer in windows Vista and don't think it's there.

And reinstalling Media player won't help.. since.. there is no version to reinstall :) basically I believe mplayer isn't registered as a plugin with those browsers on vista. it'll probably be fixed in uture versions or something.

or maybe there is some other solution to set up the link. or use another pgoram as the media player plugin in those browsers.

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I think the fix is to copy the netscape plugins into the Firefox/plugins folder, seems it has trouble finding them under Vista (yet it's fine in XP)

That's what I had to do with Opera. I needed two files relating to Media Player, and one for Shockwave so I got them from my gf's laptop. One just plops them right into the plugin folder, and voila, no extra work should be needed.

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Yeah, those are the files (and np in the file name gives it away :p )

I wonder what's causing it, e.g. did MS change something, or does the automatic plugin search fail on Vista?

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As a reminder, K-Lite is GARBAGE. It's not legal (pirates a bunch of commercial stuff), it contains bad crashing software (heap memory corruption from Voxware, hideous DirectShow problems with Morgam Multimedia Stream Switcher), and security holes.

If you use or recommend it, please stop. This is just absolute trash garbage, and bogging down a good new system with that tripe is really sad.

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As a reminder, K-Lite is GARBAGE. It's not legal (pirates a bunch of commercial stuff), it contains bad crashing software (heap memory corruption from Voxware, hideous DirectShow problems with Morgam Multimedia Stream Switcher), and security holes.

If you use or recommend it, please stop. This is just absolute trash garbage, and bogging down a good new system with that tripe is really sad.

That's the first I've ever heard of this. Is it true? I mean, I see recommendations for the K-Lite codec packs all over the place. If this is the case are there any decent alternatives? VLC maybe? Or is that the same?

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The only reason I ever installed K-Lite was because I work in a school, and we were always getting problems with teachers complaining this video wouldn't play and that video wouldn't play. I can remove K-Lite no probs, but I hope VLC is easy to deploy and make it the default player for all media files silently.

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ffdshow would be a better idea, any application that uses the system codecs will be able to decode the formats it supports (a crap-ton)

As much as i like VLC, it's not a very transparent option.

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ffdshow would be a better idea, any application that uses the system codecs will be able to decode the formats it supports (a crap-ton)

As much as i like VLC, it's not a very transparent option.

I haven't gotten around to installing ffdshow on Vista because I assumed it was incompatible. Do you know if it works?

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