256393 - Can't see WMV videos at IGN

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Firefox/0.9.1+

You can't browse videos at IGN. With IE it's OK (of course). Not sure it's
evangelism stuff or not, though.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://media.psp.ign.com/articles/514/514807/vids_1.html?fromint=1 and
skip its advertisement to get to see videos listing
2. Open one of the 320x240 WMV videos


Actual Results:  
A window with a Windows Media Player embedded appears, but it stalls at a blank
screen trying to download the video.

Expected Results:  
The video starts to play in the embedded WMP.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040821
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Please disregard comment 1..., does not work for me

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

Modified URL to more specific place.

http://media.psp.ign.com/articles/514/514807/vid_834760.html?mu=http%3A%2F%2Fstreamingmovies.ign.com%2Fpsp%2Farticle%2F514%2F514807%2FPSP_WallFootage_PSPDemos_05_13_06_wmvlow.wmv

is the page where this bug occurs.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 269867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[mattfras]

I am having the same problem. Any WMV streams at IGN.com won't play under
Firefox 1.0. Right clicking on the blank Windows Media Player window and
selecting "error
details" show the error as "Class not registered." I am using Win 98SE and
Windows Media Player 9. Some one please fix this problem.

Comment 6

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

Now it seems to work OK on WMP10 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050411 Firefox/1.0+ -> WORKSFORME