189273 - cannot view video stream (wvx)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tom Kwong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Click on any of the video stream links.  

Windows Media Player (9 Series) does come up but error out with "The selected
file has an extension that is not recognized by the Windows Media Player, but
the player still be able to play it.  Because the extension is unknown by the
Player, you should be sure that the file comes from a trustworthy source".  When
I click Yes, if gives me a fatal error "Windows Media Player encountered an
unknwon error".

The same link works on IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Windows Media Player (9 Series) does come up but error out with "The selected
file has an extension that is not recognized by the Windows Media Player, but
the player still be able to play it.  Because the extension is unknown by the
Player, you should be sure that the file comes from a trustworthy source".  When
I click Yes, if gives me a fatal error "Windows Media Player encountered an
unknwon error".

The same link works on IE.


The "recently opened files" list shows scrambled (msdos 8-char) filenames. 
Maybe Mozilla downloaded the file, renamed it, and that's why it's not working.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with a one day old win2k build and the mediaplayer 6.4 + Mediaplayer-Plugin

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->File Handling

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Is this still a problem with a current Mozilla build?

Comment 4

[Steve Chapel]

WFM with Mozilla trunk build 2004103006 on Windows XP SP2.