357618 - XM Radio player does not recognize Media Player 11 in Windows Vista RC2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Phil Hawker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Launch XM Radio player using Windows Vista RC2 and Firefox prompts me to install a Media Player plugin. Windows Media Player 11 for Vista is installed but is not recognized by Firefox. Using IE XM Radio launches without a problem and plays flawlessly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to XMRADIO.COM and request the free 3 day trial.
2.Launch player by clicking on "Listen Now"
3.Pick any station to listen

Actual Results:  
Player does not play music

Expected Results:  
Music is played

Comment 1

[lee hays]

The same thing happens with Windows Media Edition Ver 5.1.  XM Radio plays fine on   my desktop running XP Pro.

Popup says "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.  There is an Install Missing Plugins button which comes back with No suitable plugins were found. Unknown Plugin (application/x-mplayer2) and give the option to Manual Install - This button takes you to Microsoft.

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Phil, lee, does the new Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_Media_Player#Installing_the_new_plugin fix this problem for you ? 

Comment 3

[lee hays]

Tomcat - This appears to have fixed the problem.  Nice job.  Thank you.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

closing wfm as confirmed from comment #3