264442 - plugin finder can't find anything for windows media.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Graham Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

I used to be able to play embedded windows media files just fine, now I can't.
It says I need a plugin, but it can't find it. I have not changed anything, and
I don't recall anything that I might have done to cause this. I have reinstalled
WMP 9 twice already, and FireFox twice -- also deleting the folder in
Application Data.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to any site that has an embedded windows media file in it
2.green puzzle peice appears, and tells me to click to install plugin
3.plugin finder says 'no suitable plugin was found.

Actual Results:  
media file did not play

Expected Results:  
plugin to play embedded windows media file should have installed.

I have the Firefox modern theme. I have added and removed tabbrowser extensions,
and tabbrowser preferences, and turned adblock and popup block on and off.




about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-cygwin

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
$(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
--enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

confirming.

<embed src="mediatemp/1096445075-71.wvx" height="304" width="380"
type="video/x-ms-wvx-plugin"
name="MediaPlayer1" pluginspage ="
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" showstatusbar="1"> doesn't work
anymore.  Mozilla 1.7 shows it fine on the same box.

Probably a 1.0 blocker.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The reason for this is that the site specifies the wrong mimetype, WMP supports
"video/x-ms-wvx", but not "video/x-ms-wvx-plugin". And as we're creating frames
for the plugin, we see that it's not a supported type, and we do our missing
plugin thing. What we should do though, and this is what we used to do, is to
not throw up anything about a missing plugin until we get a mimetype back from
the network, as that may be a different mimetype, as is the case here. Patch
coming up.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Don't assume we don't have a plugin before getting a responce from the network.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 162212 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't assume we don't have a plugin before getting a responce from the network.

r+sr=bzbarsky, I guess..

Is ther a reason mIsBrokenPlugin is write-only?

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is ther a reason mIsBrokenPlugin is write-only?

It's not, there's an inline IsBroken() method in nsObjectFrame.h that returns
its value, and there are callers...

Thanks for the sr!

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 162212 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't assume we don't have a plugin before getting a responce from the network.

We need this on the aviary branch.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 162212 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't assume we don't have a plugin before getting a responce from the network.

a=asa for aviary checkin.

Comment 8

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Fix checked in on the aviary branch.

Comment 9

[mike]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
> 
> I used to be able to play embedded windows media files just fine, now I can't.
> It says I need a plugin, but it can't find it. I have not changed anything, and
> I don't recall anything that I might have done to cause this. I have reinstalled
> WMP 9 twice already, and FireFox twice -- also deleting the folder in
> Application Data.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.go to any site that has an embedded windows media file in it
> 2.green puzzle peice appears, and tells me to click to install plugin
> 3.plugin finder says 'no suitable plugin was found.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> media file did not play
> 
> Expected Results:  
> plugin to play embedded windows media file should have installed.
> 
> I have the Firefox modern theme. I have added and removed tabbrowser extensions,
> and tabbrowser preferences, and turned adblock and popup block on and off.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> about:buildconfig
> 
> Build platform
> target
> i686-pc-cygwin
> 
> Build tools
> Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
> $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
> $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 	12.00.8804 	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
> 
> Configure arguments
> --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
>
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
> --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
> --disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
> --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

In reply to comment #0
I use WMP 6.4 and resolved this same problem by copying from the WMP folder four
files, mplayer.exe and three other files (2 NP* dll's and the NP*.zip). Unsure
needed all three but it did not work with only mplayer file. This may work with
your WMP9. Mike.