Re: streaming wmv opens in wrong media player - please advise

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From: datest (datest_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:04:20 -0800

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:04:15 GMT, "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]"
<neil@nospam.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:07:56 -0800, datest <datest@nowhere.com> wrote:
>

>><snip>
>>I was wrong - even though I did the above, it's still opening the
>>wrong item. See these screen shots:
>>http://home.comcast.net/~davetest/wmp_9_good_in_IE6.JPG
>>http://home.comcast.net/~davetest/mplayer_classic_bad_in_firefox.JPG
>
>Yes, you're right that Firefox only instantiates the 6.4 (mplayer2)
>version of media player. I can replicate this, it's a known issue but
>the only solution I can think of is to speak to the developers of
>firefox and ask if the plugin detection and deployment be repaired.
>
>The pain is that it means the scripting model for interacting with the
>embedded player is broken, in so far as you can't access the media
>player object from the DOM.
>
>If its any help, real player 10 vs real G2 works fine (though it had
>to download *again* to detect and install the plugin !)
>
>Cheers - Neil
Hi Neil, thanks for the info.
Why does it only have this problem in windows 98SE?
I'm also running firefox on another box woth XP pro, and on the
same BBC news webpage, on the XP box,
firefox correctly initiates the WMP 9 controls.

Something odd here.
Dave

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