Firefox displeys "no video"

[veduuu]

Hi there

A few days ago I noticed a problem in Firefox 2 and also firefox 3 , when I was trying to stream a radio station. I the past I did it like a milion times and never had a problem with it.

Any Idea what could have caused It?

The first pic shows how it should be(it seem that google chrome doesn't have that problem) and the second how it shouldn't.

[Calum Veteran]

I have had this too.

Does anybody know why?

[Lt-DavidW]

Do you have the Firefox WMP plugin installed?

[Calum Veteran]

Thank you for the quick reply, but yes I do.

I don't know about the topic starter.

[Preppy Veteran]

What that site is doing (direct linking to an MMS URL in a web page) has never been supported. You've always been told to use an ASX to redirect to an MMS URL. (I helped make that call, which is why I'm very aware of it.)

Does it happen for other sites that embed the player? That would be more interesting.

[Lt-DavidW]

Try disabling any firewalls or ad-blocking software.

[Joel]

It was happening to to me on Apple's trailer site. I had to reinstall Quicktime to get it to work. I checked around, and it may have been related to my installation of VLC.

[Rob Veteran]

I believe it's a VLC issue, when its plugin takes over from others.

[veduuu]

Fact is I only recently installed VLC , so maybe thats causing it. I try to disable it and see what happens.

Thanks for all the replies

[Calum Veteran]

Yep, I too have VLC so it is probably that which is causing it.

I will disable the VLC plugin (what does the Firefox plugin for VLC actually do anyway?) & see if it works.

Thank you for the help everyone.

[Preppy Veteran]

Is VLC really taking over that? Did that fix it? If they don't support the documented WMP event model, this seems like a pretty evil action on their part. I designed the WMP embedding samples to EXPLICITLY avoid this type of evil, so I'm kind of horrified that a vendor "went there".

(Funnily enough, last week I had written a long article on this aspect of browser embedded objects and how WMP stepped past Netscape plug-in architectural limitations, but it got eaten by a dumb web form that choked on the CODE tag. If what you're saying is true, it sounds like I need to follow up with VLC to see if they really understand what they're doing here.)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The VLC plugin isn't installed by default, and claims to handle every format that's associated with VLC.

It's a no-frills plugin (no UI or anything), and I've never actually gotten it to work.

Edit: I can't see how you can force the browser to use one plugin over another unless you're doing something special, all you should do is add a <object> tag and set the mime-type, the browser chooses the plugin.

[Cadium]

I think this is caused by the VLC plugin for Mozilla that is overriding the Windows Media Player plugin. There should be a setting somewhere to control which types of files the VLC plugin will open, however I can't remember off the top of my head where it is.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I'd just uninstall it, it doesn't serve any purpose.

[veduuu]

So I disabled the VLC plugin and installed the "windows media player plugin"

But the thing is that Although I got the WMP interface back, suddenly the text which shows the recently played tracks is missing.

If I dissable both of them (the VLC plugin and the WMP plugin) then both WMP interface and text interface are missing.

I'm getting really confused now. How is it possible that a month ago I didn't have this problem? Is it a bug in a recent firefox update?

Any Ideas?