256711 - object tag content not displayed (was: Recent branch nightly cannot launch Windows Media Player)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Neil Parks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Firefox/0.9.1+

Please see Bug #253046, comment #55 and comment #56.  Please consider this the
"separate bug" suggested in comment #56.

On some sites that provide streaming audio or video using Windows Media Player,
the streams cannot be accessed with recent nightlies.  FF wrongly claims that a
plugin needs to be installed.

Two such sites are:

www.kabc.com
www.nakednews.com





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Using a recent branch nightly such as Aug 20, visit
http://www.kabc.com/listenlive.asp .
2.  Click on the link:  "Netscape users click here for TalkRadio 790 KABC on the
Internet!"
3.  Repeat steps 1 and 2 using 0.9.3 milestone.

Actual Results:  
Using nightly, FF told me I needed to install a plugin.  When I clicked the
button to install,  FF told me there is no plugin to install.

Using milestone, the WMP plugin opened and played the streaming audio.



Expected Results:  
Open the WMP plugin and play the audio stream.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040823
Firefox/0.9.1+

Confirming, same problem here

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Hmm, I do get the WMP plugin in the new window that opens when you click that
link, but my tree is a but out of date... I'll update and test more...

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Ok, I see it now... investigating.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

In Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040818
Firefox/0.9.1+ it still works

Obviously pointing at 
bug 244125 or
bug 253046

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Don't render the "default plugin" for object tags, as their content may be what we want to show.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This was regressed in bug 244125

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 156910 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't render the "default plugin" for object tags, as their content may be what we want to show.

This is a regression from the default plugin replacement bug.

Comment 8

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Comment on attachment 156910 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't render the "default plugin" for object tags, as their content may be what we want to show.

How *did* we miss that ;-)?

/be

Comment 9

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 156910 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't render the "default plugin" for object tags, as their content may be what we want to show.

Requesting aviary approval.

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 156910 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't render the "default plugin" for object tags, as their content may be what we want to show.

a=asa for aviary checkin.

Comment 11

[C. Coimbra]

Here's another such site:
http://www.georgewbush.com/News/MultiMedia/VideoPlayer.aspx?ID=984&T=5

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

Comment 12

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Thanks, that page is also fixed by this patch.

This is now fixed on the aviary branch.

Comment 13

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Updating summary as this is not in any way specific to Windows Media Player.

Comment 14

[Markus Lindström]

Using the latest sweetlou build, the problem is still present...

http://omgwtf.superlime.com/rusty.wmv

I still just get the "download new plugin" deal.

Comment 15

[Doug Wright]

The latest sweetlou was before this patch was checked in - tinderbox shows it as
having troubles.

Comment 16

[Neil Parks]

Bug #256713 seems to be similar to this one.

Comment 17

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** Bug 256713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Neil Parks]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040827 Firefox/0.9.1+

WMP streaming media seem to be ok with the 8/27 branch nightly.

Comment 19

[Oliver Saier]

I was having this bug on aviary 20040824, now it WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040827
Firefox/0.9.1+ (old profile, win xp sp2)

Comment 20

[Oliver Saier]

Well I can quite perfectly listen to KABC and watch NakedNews via the links
provided at the top of this page, but still cannot watch this one:
http://skynet.rtbf.be/index.html?pj=1734 (Belgian public TV news)
even after I (re)installed the plugin found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/plugin.aspx
I also copied the content of wmpplugin.exe to my firefox\plugins folder, no
result either.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040831
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 21

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Noting that we'd block PR1 for this, even though the patch is in.

/be

Comment 22

[steve common]

(In reply to comment #20)
> Well I can quite perfectly listen to KABC and watch NakedNews via the links
> provided at the top of this page, but still cannot watch this one:
> http://skynet.rtbf.be/index.html?pj=1734 (Belgian public TV news)

Same comment + the following page appears empty with no display of the Flash
content (EMBED within an OBJECT)
  http://aideab.contacts.wanadoo.fr/demo.html

The Flash shows up in "right-click/page info/media" tab and functions correctly
when it's direct url is fed in manually.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803
Firefox/0.9.3 

Comment 23

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Worksforme, please test with a more recent build (wait for PR1 if you don't want
to download a nightly build).

Comment 24

[Oliver Saier]

(In reply to comment #20)
>cannot watch this one:
> http://skynet.rtbf.be/index.html?pj=1734 (Belgian public TV news)
Nevermind, human error... They wrote embed type="video/x-ms-wmp" instead of
embed type="video/x-ms-wmv".
Here we go, happy :-)

Comment 25

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Fix landed on the trunk.