Closed Bug 342323 Opened 18 years ago Closed 16 years ago

windows media player plugin isn't provided with windows vista

Categories

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

Product:
Plugins Graveyard
Component:
Windows Media Player (Microsoft)
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: drpugh_mixmaster, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3

FireFox and Bon Echo (tested both) do not detect the windows media player plugin when installed on a fresh install of Windows Vista Beta 2 x86.  This comes by default with Media Player 11 Beta, and will not allow me to install any older WMP verions or codecs (I tried).  I have not reinstalled Vista Beta to see if it was something with the install.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox or Bon Echo on a Fresh install of Windows Vista Beta 2
2.Go to any website with inbeded WMP
3.Won't work
OS: Other → Windows Vista
Component: Plugin Finder Service → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
QA Contact: plugin.finder → plugins
Version: 1.0 Branch → 1.8 Branch
Component: Plug-ins → Plugin Finder Service
Product: Core → Firefox
Version: 1.8 Branch → 2.0 Branch
QA Contact: plugins → plugin.finder
the pluginfinder service is not involved here, core:plugins was the right component...
Component: Plugin Finder Service → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: plugin.finder → plugins
Version: 2.0 Branch → 1.8 Branch
Confirming Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4.

WMP 11 still seems quite unstable at the moment. The WMP plugin doesn't appear in about:plugins as I think it does in XP / lower. For those looking for a work-around, download VLC, and use the browser plugin feature on that - it does basic WMV playback in browser.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Blocks: 352420
Windows Vista RC1 still has the same problems. Might need to wait until WMP supports other browsers in Vista since Opera 9.01 does not pick up that plugin either.
looking around on a clean install of Vista rc1, i do not find any npapi style plugins related to WMP.
*** Bug 345944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The WMP 11 Beta installer for XP/lower doesnt contain any netscapeplugin either. (The installer is unzipable, that s how i checked) 
So on those system the old plugins will be used. Therefor you will see the old controls (unless you switch to fullscreen)
Just for the record there wasnt any plugin file in question on a RC2 install either.

Is MS going to drop nsplugin support on WMP?


Yesterday, the final Version of WMP 11 was released. Now the plugin uses the new designed controls.
However, this isnt done by the plugin itself.. as those are still unchanged in the WMP folder in /Program Files/. And there is no plugin shiped with the WMP installer.
same problem under Vista RTM
Please help!


(maybe a third party wmv player?)
This is a major issue. I end up having to use Internet Explorer on any number of sites with embedded video.
Work around, install this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/version64/plugin.aspx
even though it says it's version 6.4 of WMP and for Netscape 4. We've helped many people on IRC with this.
I ve seen 3 or 4 various bugs that allude to WMP 11, CNN, WinXP and the plugins for WMP.

I have
WMP 11
Plugins -are- showing WMP plugins on about:plugins
WinXP home
2.0.0.1 Firefox
Inability for CNN videos [ever since i installed Fox 2.0; NOT cured by moving from WMP10 to 11]

I wonder what plugins for WMP are registered for my Firefox?  Are they different from those in the prior Comment#11?

I went to view SLATE.COM WMP files, per another related bug as a test case, and WMP 11 undertook a startup routine, texting Win Validity and other items, but returning to CNN did not result in a working video view.
The suggested work around in #11 does not change the behavior of CNN and video viewing failure.  I note that the prior fox [1.5, as updated], CNN video worked, but the buttons/sliders, for things such as volume control did not work.  IE worked, and continues to work with V7.  Unless this is a quirk to my machine and select others, I would recommend this bug for a major/blocking problem, akin to the crashes which still occur when picking up Yahoo mail...
John, you are using WinXP per comment #12... right? This bug is about Win Vista.
Yes.  The failure[s] alluded to in all of the bugs implied, for me, that the bug isn't within the OS <--> Fox realm but within Fox.  Now, however, I wonder if the failure is more at between CNN's Server and my browser/client's report of its status; one or the other isn't recognizing the install on my machine.  Should that be true, does my bug/comment [also or solitarily] belong in non-compliant websites?
Per comment #4 this bug is regarding the plugin not shipping with Vista... your bug is not this bug.
Yes, though I do note comments 6/7, and still infer the possibility that my install of WMP 11, and the CNN failure to recognize the product, may be connected to the interpositioning of the new WMP 11 and the new Fox 2, on my machine.  Seemed reasonable to raise this [the possible connection] to those looking at the series of bugs I alluded to; I accept that it is plausible that I am wrong and the two failures are unrelated, and that what began as a vista bug report on plugins, and morphed slightly into land-of-the-other-bug, is completely unrelated to the other bugs.
That is a different issue than this bug... what you are experiencing is known and you can get help with fixing that in the support forums.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/
wmp11 works for me if i copy the np*.dlls into the program files (x86)/plugins install folder of seamonkey, but the video breaks when i scroll or the video moves outside of the browser window (wmp 11.0.6000.6324 on vista x64 business, sm 1.1)
Summary: windows media player plugin isn't detected in windows vista beta 2 wmp 11 beta → windows media player plugin isn't provided with windows vista
If anything, we should put the workaround in the relnotes of whatever 1.8.1.x version will claim to support Vista.
(In reply to comment #11)
> Work around, install this
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/version64/plugin.aspx
> even though it says it's version 6.4 of WMP and for Netscape 4. We've helped
> many people on IRC with this.
> 

Interesting..

I went to that page and noticed that Microsoft specifically states

"Note: This plug-in is not supported on the Windows Vista operating system."

Was this there when you were suggesting it on IRC or has it since been added?
that plugin fails to install on windows vista 64 business cause of unregmp2.exe
Confirming this bug on Vista Business x86. Very annoying. I have VLC installed, if that makes a difference.
Microsoft released WMP Plugin for Windows Vista now.
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx
FIXED?
(In reply to comment #25)
> Microsoft released WMP Plugin for Windows Vista now.
> http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx
> FIXED?
> 

Excellent! That works perfectly! I'm using Vista x64. Thank you!
We still have the problem that the plugin finder detects that the plugin is missing and prompts the user to install the whole program, which doesn't include the plugin - Bug 360336
this is not really fixed, so adding dependancy to 360336
Depends on: 360336
Version: 1.8 Branch → unspecified
(In reply to comment #28)
> this is not really fixed, so adding dependancy to 360336
This bug was for the Vista specific issue of not providing a WMP plugin... bug 360336 is for an issue that affects XP and is a separate issue. Fixing this bug does not depend on fixing bug 360336.
No longer depends on: 360336
sorry but "Vista specific issue of not providing a WMP plugin..." can be fixed only by microsoft.

the plugin now exists and the only problem that can be fixed here is Bug 360336, that does affect Vista also, not only XP (i had to explicitely install the plugin in Vista)
(In reply to comment #30)
> sorry but "Vista specific issue of not providing a WMP plugin..." can be fixed
> only by microsoft.
Right, and this is the bug we tracked Microsoft providing a WMP plugin.

> the plugin now exists and the only problem that can be fixed here is Bug
> 360336, that does affect Vista also, not only XP (i had to explicitely install
> the plugin in Vista)
No, bug 360336 can be fixed in bug 360336.
So what's the purpose of this bug, now? To add the technet plugin to the PFS on Vista?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
the technet plugin might work for ff, but it doesnt for sm !
Component: Plug-ins → Windows Media Player (Microsoft)
Product: Core → Plugins
QA Contact: plugins → microsoft-wmp
Product: Plugins → Plugins Graveyard
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