Cannot get Win.MediaPlayer files embedded in Firefox to play

[Cell]

Hmm...your right.I can't play the sound clip too.This is what I found after trying to use another player.


The pics tell me its a encrypted windows file.Thus only windows can play it...or maybe mac.But it has to do with DRM.Tho vlc might be able to play it...in linux.

[Cell]

Nope...vlc can't play it on Linux either.

Best bet is to play it in Windows.Or with wmp in wine.

[Moebius]

As a possible workaround - Opera plays it fine...(I´m almost converted).

Cheers.

[Cell]

You can play that?....upper left hand corner look close,because with my opera it doesn't even show up.

[Moebius]

Yep - though not my choice of tunes..

[jcapuano1]

Moebius,

What plugin do you have in opera? My opera isn't playing it and says it needs a plugin when I click the upper left corner.

[Moebius]

Moebius,

What plugin do you have in opera? My opera isn't playing it and says it needs a plugin when I click the upper left corner.

Hi Jim,
Just did another test on another PC, installed Opera through 'Tweak' - just Opera and nothing else. Worked 'out of the box'. Did not install any additional plugins at all - everything was default. Opera version is 10.0 build 4585. I'm wondering if you may have a conflicting codec? (just guessing). Sorry I can't be more helpful here, Opera is still fairly new to me. One suggestion I will give you is revert Firefox back from 3.5 - too many issues are currently being reported.

Cheers.

[Driver]

The "conflicting codecs" possibility has my vote.

Is it possible that there are two codecs that play these types of files - but only one of them will properly deal with the "check DRM, go out and check permissions to view, then view" and the other one just plays completely unrestricted files?

If that possibility does exists, maybe the first codec in line to be tried is the one that only handles unrestricted content and instead of passing on the file, the process just stops?

EDIT: Or... Didn't this browser family used to have an option to have it tell the webpages you visit that it was a different browser? Maybe you are not seeing that music because the browser is identifying itself as one that the site doesn't believe is capable of playing it.

Lastly, I have (in Windows, but...) used a plug-in for Firefox in the past that was an IE-emulation plug-in of sorts. I found some pages that would not correctly work in Firefox but they worked with all their bells and whistles using the plug-in. You might try using it.

I will now stop butting in to this thread and just follow along.