275739 - will not play audio/video from any site even though I have installed and updated my window media player from firefox site. error: player not dected

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alvin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I get my news from abc.com through their audio and video sources.  Their streams
work just great when using IE.  Fire fox will not play ANY audio or video on
this or any other site.  I have the latest ver of the media player, java, and
everything else Fire fox prompts me to install.  Can you help?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enter the site
2.pick video
3.click play

Actual Results:  
Nothing or error message saying "FireFox cannot detect windows media player

Expected Results:  
Played the audio,video

No crashes, just want the audio/video to play as it does in IE

Comment 1

[Fish]

Same thing with me, it comes up with a lil picture of a jig-saw and when I click
on it, it says it cannot find any suitable plug-ins :s

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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