285258 - MPEG 4 coded as Windows Media player .asf file does not play

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Isidore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Using Mac os 10.3.8, and a Lynksys web camera type WVC54g v.1.1. I can access the camera's web 
page on the local network but cannot see the camera output. The camera's internal webpage (it is a 
stand alone device) tells me that I can only see the video stream using internet explorer, or if I am use 
netscape I must use Lnksys's own viewer software, which is of course windows only. Mac version of IE 
also does not display image so this may not be a bug but a 'feature' of MIcrosoft's crippled Mac 
products. The video is said to be mpeg 4 but clearly they do something strange to it as mpeg 4 should 
open fine. Sorry if this is not a bug but a feature....

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to camera web page
2. click on 'view video
3. get error message described above
Actual Results:  
Error message only

Expected Results:  
shown a live video stream with sound

If this is an issue you wish to persue, I will pass you the necessary data to remotel access this webcam

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You need a plugin that supports this file Format.
If safari,IE and Firefox doesn't work, it's clear that you don't have the needed
plugin but Firefox.

Firefox comes without plugins and you have to find a third-party plugin that 
supports this file Format.

-> invalid (or wontfix if you see it as Feature request)