[update 9-18]Answer to Launch.com WMP/ActiveX stuff(mostly)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 12th, 2004, 11:47 am

add this to the user agent switcher, worked for me

Description: Netscape 7.1 (Windows XP)
User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; Localization; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

RoseCityMike · Post by **RoseCityMike** » July 12th, 2004, 2:00 pm

On the regular user agent profile, there isn't a "Netscape 7.1" choice -- do I need to load something?

Thanks.

Post by **LeRoi** » July 12th, 2004, 2:05 pm

Go to tools>user agent switcher>options and change the max # of uas; add or remove as you wish.

RoseCityMike · Post by **RoseCityMike** » July 12th, 2004, 2:08 pm

Thanks LeRoi - I'll try that!

On another note; I copied the java script console error (see below) Could this tell someone what is happening to my player? Again; the player loads but no video runs :-(

Error: this.pluginObject.Open is not a function
Source File: http://a1568.g.akamai.net/7/1568/1600/2 ... aplayer.js
Line: 132

audioroxor · Post by **audioroxor** » July 12th, 2004, 2:09 pm

Anon: I did though... that link you supplied in the original post.. I installed that.

Does putting those 2 files in the plugins folder hurt it anyway?

d00gs · Post by **d00gs** » July 12th, 2004, 2:09 pm

*gasp*

I was spoofing as Netrscape 4.7....chaning it to Netscape 7.1 (including the (ax) at the end) fixed it.
Cool. Thanks people :)

d00gs · Post by **d00gs** » July 12th, 2004, 2:12 pm

Okay, actually the video works fine (which is most of what matters). but the song info on the left (song, artist, album, rating, etc.) doesn't show...not a big deal, but just wondering if anyone gets that.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 12th, 2004, 3:03 pm

well in the browser if you leave it set to netscape 7.1 the info should be there. At least it is for me.

AnonEmoose · Post by **AnonEmoose** » July 12th, 2004, 6:06 pm

audioroxor wrote:Anon: I did though... that link you supplied in the original post.. I installed that.

Does putting those 2 files in the plugins folder hurt it anyway?

Not at all, it doesn't hurt, actually those files are the Officail WMP plugin for Netscape/Moz and will be used for non-activex pages that have Windows Media. Yahoo, however uses the activex methos so u need the activex file (from the first post) if u want to see/hear the videos

Just don't confuse it with the activex method that the original post is about.

thanat · Post by **thanat** » July 13th, 2004, 3:35 am

Oh wow. I had a slightly different User Agent (actually I had it all wrong and put in Mozilla 7.1, netscape 7.1 and a whole other errors), copying what guest posted above verbatim made it work. Thanks very much!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 16th, 2004, 2:52 pm

is there anyway i can watch yahoo launch videos under linux

bigsoos · Post by **bigsoos** » July 22nd, 2004, 9:17 am

got the videos to work, thanks!

question, why won't the pop up windows appear on the site when you hold the cursor over Launch tabs?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 22nd, 2004, 4:40 pm

i followed every step but i can only hear the audio. video does not show. could anyone help me out? thx

AnonEmoose · Post by **AnonEmoose** » July 22nd, 2004, 7:50 pm

Anonymous wrote:i followed every step but i can only hear the audio. video does not show. could anyone help me out? thx

Perhaps u hav a slow connection or u don't have the proper Video codec (does it play in IE?? )

Guest · Post by **Guest** » July 23rd, 2004, 8:32 am

I followed every step too and I have got video from ABC news at Yahoo News. But Launch Music Videos (http://launch.yahoo.com/musicvideos/)says me:

"ERROR
To use this application with Netscape, you must use a 4.7x or 7.1 version. Download now.
Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. (Error Code: 12)"

and Launch Music Radio (http://radio.launch.yahoo.com) says me:

"Error
Sorry, we do not support Netscape on the Windows platform.
Error Code: 25 - 0"

I use FireFox 0.9.2 and Windows 2000.

Any suggestion?