Cannot play Windows Media Stream in Firefox

[greenmetal]

Hi,

I have Fedora 11 and I cannot play a windows media stream in Firefox. E.g. http://www.rogersplus.ca/movie.asp?mid=35147# from this site I cannot view trailers in Windows Media Format but I can using Real Player. When I select Windows Media Stream, all I see is a black window in place of video.

I have installed following plugins in Firefox, DivX Browser Plug-in (Geko Media Player 0.9.8), MozPlugger 1.12.1, gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8, VLC Multimedia Plug-in 1.0.3.

Thanks in advance for any help and your time,

Joe Green

[Sagitter]

Check plugins on "about plugins" page

[greenmetal]

The plug-ins that I listed in my original post are the one that are listed in Firefox Add-ons plug-in window.

[Sagitter]

Are you installed Mplayer?

[lewis41]

Hi,
try to nstall totem-mozplugin, among others (if you use totem as player)

[marriedto51]

I seem to be able to do this (Fedora 10 but with the same media-playing plugin), but I wonder whether you need to install the relevant codec? I have two packages installed: mplayer-codecs and mplayer-codecs-extra. I think. you can get both direct from the mplayer web site, but I'm pretty sure I installed them from the rpmfusion repositories

[greenmetal]

Yes MPlayer is installed. I just installed mplayer codec and mplayer codec extra and still cannot play.

[Sagitter]

$ rpm -qa | grep -e gecko -e flash -e mplayer

[GODhack]

You sure you tried to open stream in mplayer. Install kmplayer for GUI and try in it.

[greenmetal]

When I ran the command: rpm -qa | grep -e gecko -e flash -e mplayer, I got the following output:

mplayer-1.0-0.110.20090329svn.fc11.i586
mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386
gnome-mplayer-common-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386
gnome-mplayer-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386

Does this give you guys any clue?

Thanks for your time.

[Chilly Willy]

I just now discovered that mine isn't working now either - it DID under FF3.0 but I'm now using 3.5 in F10 & don't remember what all I did in 3.0 to get it working. I assume the plugins are different for the two & I DO list as having them for VLC in ABOUT:PLUGINS. (using VLC & TOTEM)

Is any of this the same in your (OP) case? - gonna follow this thread as since I just discovered this & just checked my plugins, I'll have to beat my memory to figure out the fix. Hope we can collaborate.

BTW: the latest update for VLC seems to have busted my playlist function as when I go to the next thing, it shuts off VLC so there MAY be other problems causing THIS one in it as well. In MY case anyway.

[Chilly Willy]

UPDATE: I did some checking & turned OFF all my plugins for VLC. Now when I click on the wmv (on my 'testing" site) it plays in TOTEM. On your site it complains about the plugins being off. So I am even more pointing my finger at this latest VLC update.

[greenmetal]

Thanks Chily Willy. I use to see WMV stream in Firefox but at that time I didn't hae VLC. I used to have touble playing DVDs so installed VLC as VLC was my video player of choice. After installing VLC I didn't check playing WMV stream in Firefox until a few days when I posted it for help. I removed all the video players. Tried all combination of players. And guess what the culprit is VLC. I removed VLC altogether. I don't know the problem is with VLC plugin or player itself. Even xine didn't work. All I have now, mplayer and totem. Now I can see WMV stream.

ran the command: rpm -qa | grep -e gecko -e flash -e mplayer, I got the following output:

mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386
gnome-mplayer-common-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386
mplayer-1.0-0.110.20090329svn.fc11.i586
gnome-mplayer-0.9.8-1.fc11.i586
flash-plugin-10.0.32.18-release.i386

Hope this helps to anyone who is having similar problem. Hopefully VLC will fix the bug.

[Chilly Willy]

I can get them to run from my computer in VLC and some sites. It is the EMBEDDED stuff that is giving fits.(at the moment, I suspect the browser plugin, but not 100% sure) And if I remember right, something like this happened once before.

I like VLC & it is a fine player but there has been issues with it breaking like this. For me, it isn't that big of a deal as I have "workarounds" that let me see the stuff. (PITA though) So, since we pretty much confirmed or narrowed it down to another VLC issue, I'm gonna let it ride for now. - my problem, that I mentioned, with the "playlist" is more of a pain to me at the moment.

[Jutoms]

Have you install codec for media stream ?

# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly