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Firefix refuses to play embedded WMVs in websites. I've installed WMP10 multiple times, still nothing. Updated firefox to 1.0.5, nothing changes. I'd uninstall media player if I knew how and try and reinstall. Does someone know who to get pass this problem?

Tasoth wrote:Firefix refuses to play embedded WMVs in websites. I've installed WMP10 multiple times, still nothing. Updated firefox to 1.0.5, nothing changes. I'd uninstall media player if I knew how and try and reinstall. Does someone know who to get pass this problem?

Can you give a link to a website that gives your problems, so I can do some tests?

I hate streaming video, mainly because it has a fixed size (which can be tiny at higher res) when any decent vidoe player can enlarge the picture without too much loss in quality. Also by saving it to my harddrive I can rewatch it without using more bandwidth.

What i usually do is use the adblock extension to find the url of the video file (when you click the block button you see the url of what your are blocking so you can add wildcards i use ctrl-c to copy it to clipboard). Then I tell getright to download that url, thus saving the file to my harddrive. Some sites managed to prevent me doing this by detecting when I'm downloading instead of streaming, but I can usually find the same file (its almost always a movie trailer) elsewhere.

althornin wrote:

Tasoth wrote:Firefix refuses to play embedded WMVs in websites. I've installed WMP10 multiple times, still nothing. Updated firefox to 1.0.5, nothing changes. I'd uninstall media player if I knew how and try and reinstall. Does someone know who to get pass this problem?

Can you give a link to a website that gives your problems, so I can do some tests?

any and everyone that uses WMV.

Get the MediaPlayerConnectivity extension, and you'll be able to download those and play them with an actual video-playing program.

Umm..did you try double-checking to see if any application is actually bound to the wmv extention?

Open up any explorer window (My Computer, Windows Explorer, etc) and click on the tools menu. Select Folder Options. Then click on the File Types tab and scroll down to WMV.

The best solution to streaming wmv files is to go to "view -> page source". Find the link for the .wmv and then copy and paste that into a download manager.

weemadando wrote:The best solution to streaming wmv files is to go to "view -> page source". Find the link for the .wmv and then copy and paste that into a download manager.

Which I do for a whole lotta file types, from .swf to .wav, and especially .mov for trailers.