Re: Issues with Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox in Firefox 3

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:10:00 -0700, Marlon
<Marlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am currently developing/maintaining a site that uses the Port 25 Windows
Media Player Plugin for Firefox. Key to some of the features of this
streaming site is the ability to script the player, specifically to capture
events in the stream using the WMP event API. For instance, I am using the
ScriptCommand(scType, Param) event to capture script commands from the stream
to trigger events in the browser. All of this worked great using the Port 25
WMP plugin in Firefox 2.x. However, the event API does not appear to work
with Firefox 3.

Anyone else having issues with the Port 25 WMP plugin in Firefox 3.x,
specifically with the event APIs? Anyone get it to work? Can anyone confirm
that the Port 25 WMP plugin does NOT fully support Firefox 3? Or if Port 25
support for Firefox 3 is planned/in the works?


I haven't tried it just yet, but probably will. Firefox release
candidate is still very new and has several issues especially with
media, not just for WMP pligin.

For example, the Real Player plugin for media download is disabled (no
compatible extension atm), and on Win 2000, Quicktime plugin is
disabled because it's an older (7.1) Quicktime which can't be updated.

I've also had issues with Flash, and SQLite DB populating phishing
filters causing massive disk thrashing, which I had to turn off.

Obviously it's much faster than FF2 and less of a memory hog, but the
only thing here is probably a waiting game unless you're able to get
the FF3 developers to tighten up their QA process for plugins.

It's not unreasonable to report the issue to the Port25 developers, as
they're probably aware of this and have some sort of plan (though I
haven't heard of one ;-)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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