351832 - no registry entry for HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\seamonkey.exe

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193883

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 SeaMonkey/1.1a

WMP 9 cannot be invoked in another application unless the application is listed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList  Thus, when I visit a site with embedded windows media, WMP 6.4 is invoked (instead of 9) because an entry for seamonkey.exe is not created in the registry.  Manually adding the entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\seamonkey.exe fixes this problem.  I've been able to confirm this problem on all my XP (SP2) machines.  

Note that all the windows media dll's show up in about:plugins, so seamonkey knows its there.

I should also comment that I haven't confirmed that this problem exists in WMP10, but I don't like the UI in 10, so don't have it installed on any of my sy stems.

In short, if the installer just made a registry entry for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\seamonkey.exe, that should solve the problem..

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit www.kkoh.com
2. click listen live (top right of page)
3. login to listen to the stream

Actual Results:  
WMP 6.4 (mplayer2) is invoked (which won't play the stream) instead of WMP 9 (wmplayer)

Expected Results:  
WMP 9 should have loaded

seamonkey installer should create this registry entry to fix the problem:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\ShimInclusionList\seamonkey.exe

Comment 1

[jorge alves]

Confirming with WMP10.

I understand this is an issue external to seamonkey, but it wouldn't hurt to add the key unless there are compatibility problems.

anyway, this is a duplicate of bug #193883
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193883

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193883 ***