235634 - After applying the Windows Media Player 9 registry fix, and it brings it up but all I get is audio

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Martin]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When playing videos now instead of loading Windows Media Player 6.4, it does now
look like it loads WMP9.  But now I only get a black area where the video is
supposed to be and I only hear the audo of the video.  

Sometimes the first time through - like the TechRepublic ad it shows the first
time, then goes black and doesn't display the video part again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load ZDNet (Or I am sure any other video accessible)
2. Try watching a video
3.

Actual Results:  
When playing videos now instead of loading Windows Media Player 6.4, it does now
look like it loads WMP9.  But now I only get a black area where the video is
supposed to be and I only hear the audo of the video.  

Expected Results:  
Video being played.

Comment 1

[Nobu Nari]

The bug was reproduced on embed WMP9 when I accessed to 
http://zdnet.com.com/1601-2-5191660.html?tag=zdfd.eye.video.5191660
using Firefox0.8+
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; ja-JP; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040416 Firefox/0.8.0+).

The phenomena in general become more reproducible when some spaces exist between
the video image and the frame of the embed WMP9, and also after the video image
was covered once by the other window. For example, 

1. Access to http://www.otaru.gr.jp/8-ivent/akari6/99-streaming.html to play the
embed-video.
2. Cover the video image by the other window (any window such as the text
editor, explorer or the other window of firefox).
3. Make active again the window of embed-video-playing firefox. The video image
disappears and becomes blank in the frame of embed WMP9.

Even though the image disappeared, it can be revealed again when the window of
firefox is moved by dragging or when the blank image was moved by scrolling of
the firefox window.

Comment 2

[Nobu Nari]

My test results are summarized as followes:
1. Firefox0.8 on Win-XP machines (the package of WMP9 for Win-XP was
   installed) does not reproduce the bugs of #0 and #1 described above. 
2. Firefox0.8 on both Win-98SE machines of VersaPro(NEC) and Gateway
   reproduces those bugs, so that the bugs may not be due to the 
   property of hardware components.
3. Without the registry addition of the Firefox for the installed WMP9, 
   the phenomena of #0 and #1 are not observed on the Win-98SE 
   because an embedding WMP6.4(mplayer2) shows up.
4. IE and NS7.1 on the Win-98SE do not show the phenomena of #0 and #1.

Comment 3

[Thomas]

Using FireFox 0.9.3 on Windows 2K
not able te reproduce the error on any of those 2 sites from comment #1.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051010
Firefox/1.4.1

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