Vista, Firefox 2.0.0.3, and WMP 11

Post by **Vectorspace** » April 17th, 2007, 11:06 pm

Littlemut - does it work here: http://members.aol.com/jrzycrim01/mozil ... st-HS.html

Since you are using Minefield, it might not be registered in the registry as 'Firefox' therefore the plugin installer might not know to install the plugin to it.

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » April 18th, 2007, 3:43 am

Vectorspace,
I have never been able to get that test page to run even using the original fix of adding the three .dll's, again probably a trunk issue, or perhaps as you suggest a registration issue.

I have no idea where in the registry to even start looking or what to look for.

Maybe, its Cairo related ?

EDIT: No, the plugin does the same as the other dll fix. I see a blank player, no controls or play button to press.

Kab · Post by **Kab** » April 18th, 2007, 4:06 am

Vectorspace wrote:Littlemut - does it work here: http://members.aol.com/jrzycrim01/mozil ... st-HS.html

Is that supposed to work in any way if you don't have the new WMP plugin installed?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » April 18th, 2007, 4:20 am

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microso ... x-released

Kab · Post by **Kab** » April 18th, 2007, 4:53 am

Cheers Guest.

Vectorspace's link played for me perfectly while I don't have any extra's such as the Fx ActiveX installed; Fx 2.0.0.3 in Vista Ultimate.

One instance where this plugin would be needed is here, hopefully.

Post by **Vectorspace** » April 18th, 2007, 10:44 am

Kab: The test link I provided works if you have either the new or the old WMP plugin.
Your link to Yahoo music videos, they seem to use Flash.

Littlemut - do you have the VLC player installed?

Dave_D_654321 · Post by **Dave_D_654321** » April 18th, 2007, 10:46 am

Interesting... this plugin even shows the visual effects within the entire Firefox window when playing streaming music files. You know, all that trippy visual effects that go with the music in the normal WMP program. I don't really care whether it does it or not, but interesting anyways.

Dave_D_654321 · Post by **Dave_D_654321** » April 18th, 2007, 11:04 am

WMP 9 SERIES WORKS!!!

Windows XP SP2, WMP 9 Series tested and works perfectly well with this new plugin. I even disabled the old WMP plugin within about:config and it still works.

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » April 18th, 2007, 11:55 am

Vectorspace, No I have no others players installed but WMP. No QuickTime, No Realplayer stuff..

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a4pre) Gecko/20070418 Minefield/3.0a4pre Firefox ID:2007041807 [cairo][Places]

Post by **Vectorspace** » April 18th, 2007, 10:43 pm

Copy and paste the contents of your about:plugins into this thread

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » April 19th, 2007, 4:23 am

NOTE: I have re-installed the 3 .dlls needed for Vista to play video in Firefox (Original Fix) New Plugin is not currently installed.

Installed plug-ins
Find more information about browser plug-ins at mozilla.org.
Help for installing plug-ins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.
Mozilla Default Plug-in

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\npnul32.dll
Default Plug-in

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* Mozilla Default Plug-in * No
Shockwave Flash

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yes
Microsoft® DRM

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\npdrmv2.dll
DRM Netscape Network Object

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-drm-v2 Network Interface Plugin nip Yes
Microsoft® DRM

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\npwmsdrm.dll
DRM Store Netscape Plugin

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-drm Network Interface Plugin nip Yes
Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\npdsplay.dll
Npdsplay dll

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/asx Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Media Files * Yes
application/x-mplayer2 Media Files * Yes
video/x-ms-asf Media Files asf,asx,* Yes
video/x-ms-wm Media Files wm,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Media Files wma,* Yes
audio/x-ms-wax Media Files wax,* Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Media Files wmv,* Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Media Files wvx,* Yes
2007 Microsoft Office system

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\NPOFF12.DLL
Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-msoffice12 12.0.4518.1014 * Yes
Adobe Acrobat

File name: C:\Program Files\Minefield\plugins\nppdf32.dll
Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/pdf Acrobat Portable Document Format pdf Yes
application/vnd.adobe.x-mars Acrobat Portable XML Document Format mars Yes
application/vnd.fdf Acrobat Forms Data Format fdf Yes
application/vnd.adobe.xfdf XML Version of Acrobat Forms Data Format xfdf Yes
application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml Acrobat XML Data Package xdp Yes
application/vnd.adobe.xfd+xml Adobe FormFlow99 Data File xfd Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjava13.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 JavaBeans Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjava14.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjava32.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 JavaBeans Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npoji610.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm Java Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjava11.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean JavaBeans Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjava12.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 JavaBeans Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 JavaBeans Yes
Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U1

File name: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_01\bin\npjpi160_01.dll
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_01 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_01 Java Applet Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_01 JavaBeans Yes

Post by **Vectorspace** » April 19th, 2007, 11:10 am

I'm thinking it's a trunk issue. You can try the various known issues listed on the WMP kb page, but other than that...

The new WMP plugin appears to have all of the same functionality as the WMP ActiveX control - visualisations, scripting, etc. Some of the stuff that allows a script to detect and respond to events in the plugin may still be IE-only, but all of the important stuff appears to be there (other than pre-XP compatibility).

Alice · Post by **Alice** » April 19th, 2007, 12:49 pm

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a3) Gecko/20070322 GranParadiso/3.0a3

The WMP plugin test page at http://members.aol.com/jrzycrim01/mozil ... st-LS.html doesn't work for me either, no matter which plugin I use. I get a blank where the player should load.

I tried the regular WMP plugin which is detected via plugin scanning: File name: C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll

Then I disabled the plugin scan (by setting plugin.scan.WindowsMediaPlayer to 12.0), closed Firefox and and copied the np-mswmp.dll file to my Firefox30 plugins folder so that about:plugins now shows only the Firefox WMP plugin, File name: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox30\firefox\plugins\np-mswmp.dll

So I would agree that it's an issue with Firefox 3 since the new plugin (and the old) work fine in Firefox 1.5.0.11 Bon Echo 2.0.0.4pre and SeaMonkey 1.0.8

Post by **Vectorspace** » April 19th, 2007, 1:27 pm

I think they've made a good plugin here... So far I only have two gripes:

1. No pre-XP compatibility.

2. It is installed directly into the plugin folder of detected Firefox installs. It should be in the WMP plugins folder and included in WMP installers, replacing npdsplay.dll and therefore being detectable and usable by any and all browsers on the system, Firefox or not, installed or zip builded.

I never thought this day would come... With the news that npdsplay.dll would not be included in Vista (as it wasn't in XP MCE) and rumours that it didn't work when restored manually, I felt sure that MS had finally decided to make WMP IE-only...

Post by **trolly** » April 19th, 2007, 2:09 pm

The test pages never worked for me in trunk but in FF 2. Plugins ( C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll and the two DRM plugins) are listed in about:plugins.