310541 - Windows Media Player Plug-In Not Found But Is Installed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 692446

(Plugins Graveyard :: Windows Media Player (Microsoft), defect)

Description

[Dick Riegner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

When I attempt to play a Windows Media Player .wmv file, I get the Mozilla
"Opening ..." window saying that Mozilla does not know how to handle the file.

The Windows Media Player 9.0 plug-in is installed and the .wmv file opens
properly with Safari 1.3.1.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mousemusings.com/multimedia/video/
2. Click on "Pillow From The Moon".
3. Note that you get the "Mozilla does not know how to handle ..." window.
Actual Results:  
I got the "Mozilla does not know how to handle ..." window.

Expected Results:  
Play the video.

This video opens and plays with Safari 1.3.1.  The file type is video/x-ms-wmv
and the file extension is .wmv.

Comment 1

[redshorty4]

Try this,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/version64/plugin.aspx

and download and execute the file. It will install windows media player for
firefox.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is there a standard OSX location where we should be looking for plug-ins?

Comment 3

[Josh Aas]

Dick: Do you know where the installed plugin is actually sitting on disk?

Comment 4

[Dick Riegner]

Josh,

The Windows Media Plug-In is here:

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/

Dick