Zoom7000 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Should be obvious but - settings in NoScript or Adblock interfering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spielo Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Most BBC content requires RealPlayer to play video, unless you click "change how I view or hear this" and change your settings to Windows Media Player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted February 15, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2007 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david13lt Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Use IE 7, FF just can't work with media player in Vista. But next release shouldn't have this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm Frog Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted February 15, 2007 MVC Share Posted February 15, 2007 The answer to your question lies here... http://blog.ryaneby.com/archives/firefox-c...player2-embeds/ Worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted February 15, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 worked for me also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Bug 342323 [Core]- windows media player plugin isn't provided with windows vista [Win]Regretfully, MS stopped shipping the plugin with Vista which is why it doesn't work out of the box. From here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=520352 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preppy Veteran Posted February 15, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 media player, vlc and xvid or divx codecs and you're good to go, never ever install codec pacs :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted February 17, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 17, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted February 18, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 18, 2007 No idea, still on XP here. Try installing it, worst case is it doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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