I’m trying to figure out why videos on webpages that use WMP won’t play. The status bar for the video itself will say “Ready”, but when I click Play, it says “Opening media”, then “Connecting to media”, then back to “Ready” without playing. Meanwhile, the status bar for the browser says “Done”.
I have WMP installed on my computer. I have the WMP extension for Firefox installed too. Anyone know what setting I need to mess with to make it work? If you need more info, just ask.
Are you using the Media Player Connectivity extention?
No. I’ll try that now.
Got a little farther…now I can open the movie in WMP itself and watch it not play. I get a popup that says it cannot find the file. I’ve done everything it says to do in the WMP help box about that problem, to no avail.
I had a similiar problem when I upgraded Firefox to 1.5. This page took care of it for me.
I can’t change my default video plugin for Firefox, and I don’t have a listing for .wmv files. I can’t seem to add that either. Any ideas, anyone?
I added the ActiveX thing on that page, and now when I open a page with an embedded WMP video on it, WMP pops up and tells me it cannot find the file.
Technology be damned…
From the page I linked to earlier, did you try the Windows Media Player Plug-in for Netscape Navigator? (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/plugin.aspx) IIRC, that’s what did the trick for me.
A related question: what causes WMP to “stutter” and re-buffer over and over again? I’ve messed with all the options that I can think of. Is it possible that the source (Astream) server is overloaded, or is my connection just not fast enough?
No, I didn’t, I removed Netscape from my computer a long time ago.
Back in the day when I used I.E., every video I found on the web would play for me. Some sites’ videos would stutter like that constantly, and some would never do it. I think it depends on the individual site.
I don’t use, or have, Netscape either. But I believe that Firefox is related in some way to Netscape, and that’s why that particular fix is located on the Mozilla/Firefox troubleshooting page that I linked to earlier. As I said, that’s what fixed my Firefox/WMP problem.