Re: Win Media Player--odd
JeffM wrote: JeffM wrote: Have either of you considered trying a different media player --one that is superior to M$'s PoS? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ flyguy wrote: No, we haven't. Does it work with SM 1.1.14 and SM 2? http://google.com/search?q=cache:q8n-rb8G9xcJ:plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows-all.html+SeaMonkey+VLC.Media.Player+Mozilla.plugin#VLC How is it better? Again, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html shows the formats it can do. Other than this quirk with SM, WMP does the very little that we need done - most joke videos emailed to us. On VLC's chart, see if there's something you previously couldn't view. If M$'s plug-in chokes (and VLC's doesn't) you have a new option. My thanks to all the inputs. I'll have a look at the VLC option, and yes, I know that WMP 10 isn't the newest, but with most things Msoft I don't upgrade just because it's there. If that upgrade solved this then so be it, but if not, why bother? Since it's a known issue, I can live with it. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Win Media Player--odd
>JeffM wrote: >>Have either of you considered trying a different media player >>--one that is superior to M$'s PoS? >>http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html >>http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ >> flyguy wrote: >No, we haven't. Does it work with SM 1.1.14 and SM 2? http://google.com/search?q=cache:q8n-rb8G9xcJ:plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows-all.html+SeaMonkey+VLC.Media.Player+Mozilla.plugin#VLC How is it better? Again, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html shows the formats it can do. >Other than this quirk with SM, >WMP does the very little that we need done >- most joke videos emailed to us. > On VLC's chart, see if there's something you previously couldn't view. If M$'s plug-in chokes (and VLC's doesn't) you have a new option. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Win Media Player--odd
JeffM wrote: flyguy wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Rickles wrote: I am using SM 1.1.14 on WinXP Pro, SP3. Media Player install is v10, and system is up to date with security patches. This has been an anoyance for some time, and I'm out of ideas. From time to time I receive a WMV attachment in an email. To play it, I must do one of 2 things: ensure Mail is the only SM window open before double-clicking on the WMV file in the SM attachment pane, or save the file to a folder and play it from there. In both those cases, double-clicking on the file opens Media Player and the movie plays. If an SM browser window is already open, the tab which has focus goes blank, the address bar shows the path to the file to be played, and then SM stops. No CPU freezes or system lockups, but SM goes no further. I've looked at Helper Apps and WMV files are listed under video/x-ms-wmv, but it makes no difference whether I leave it to the SM default action, or point the Helper App settings to the executable for WMP, same behavior. The about:plugins screen shows an entry for Windows Media Player as np-nswmp.dll for the file extension *.wmv as well. So long as the browser is closed, WMP does it's thing. If a browser window is open, nothing but a blank tab. Any ideas? its a known problem. I have the same problems, too. But I doubt this will be fixed in SM 1.1.x. Perhaps it will be for SM2. BTW: WMP 11 is the latest, not 10. My wife and I have the same problem on our computers. Just yesterday, I discovered it would work with the browser windows closed. Dang! I was hoping it was setting I had foolishly screwed up. Oh well, at least my wife will stop nagging me about it. Have either of you considered trying a different media player --one that is superior to M$'s PoS? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ No, we haven't. Does it work with SM 1.1.14 and SM 2? How is it better? Other than this quirk with SM, WMP does the very little that we need done - most joke videos emailed to us. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Win Media Player--odd
flyguy wrote: >Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>Rickles wrote: >>>I am using SM 1.1.14 on WinXP Pro, SP3. Media Player install is v10, >>>and system is up to date with security patches. This has been an >>>anoyance for some time, and I'm out of ideas. >>> >>> From time to time I receive a WMV attachment in an email. To play >>>it, I must do one of 2 things: ensure Mail is the only SM window open >>>before double-clicking on the WMV file in the SM attachment pane, or >>>save the file to a folder and play it from there. In both those >>>cases, double-clicking on the file opens Media Player and the movie >>>plays. If an SM browser window is already open, the tab which has >>>focus goes blank, the address bar shows the path to the file to be >>>played, and then SM stops. No CPU freezes or system lockups, but SM >>>goes no further. >>> >>>I've looked at Helper Apps and WMV files are listed under >>>video/x-ms-wmv, but it makes no difference whether I leave it to the >>>SM default action, or point the Helper App settings to the executable >>>for WMP, same behavior. The about:plugins screen shows an entry for >>>Windows Media Player as np-nswmp.dll for the file extension *.wmv as >>>well. >>> >>>So long as the browser is closed, WMP does it's thing. If a browser >>>window is open, nothing but a blank tab. Any ideas? >> >>its a known problem. I have the same problems, too. But I doubt this >>will be fixed in SM 1.1.x. Perhaps it will be for SM2. >> >>BTW: WMP 11 is the latest, not 10. > >My wife and I have the same problem on our computers. Just yesterday, I >discovered it would work with the browser windows closed. Dang! I was >hoping it was setting I had foolishly screwed up. Oh well, at least my >wife will stop nagging me about it. Have either of you considered trying a different media player --one that is superior to M$'s PoS? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Win Media Player--odd
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Rickles wrote: I am using SM 1.1.14 on WinXP Pro, SP3. Media Player install is v10, and system is up to date with security patches. This has been an anoyance for some time, and I'm out of ideas. From time to time I receive a WMV attachment in an email. To play it, I must do one of 2 things: ensure Mail is the only SM window open before double-clicking on the WMV file in the SM attachment pane, or save the file to a folder and play it from there. In both those cases, double-clicking on the file opens Media Player and the movie plays. If an SM browser window is already open, the tab which has focus goes blank, the address bar shows the path to the file to be played, and then SM stops. No CPU freezes or system lockups, but SM goes no further. I've looked at Helper Apps and WMV files are listed under video/x-ms-wmv, but it makes no difference whether I leave it to the SM default action, or point the Helper App settings to the executable for WMP, same behavior. The about:plugins screen shows an entry for Windows Media Player as np-nswmp.dll for the file extension *.wmv as well. So long as the browser is closed, WMP does it's thing. If a browser window is open, nothing but a blank tab. Any ideas? its a known problem. I have the same problems, too. But I doubt this will be fixed in SM 1.1.x. Perhaps it will be for SM2. BTW: WMP 11 is the latest, not 10. My wife and I have the same problem on our computers. Just yesterday, I discovered it would work with the browser windows closed. Dang! I was hoping it was setting I had foolishly screwed up. Oh well, at least my wife will stop nagging me about it. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Win Media Player--odd
Rickles wrote: I am using SM 1.1.14 on WinXP Pro, SP3. Media Player install is v10, and system is up to date with security patches. This has been an anoyance for some time, and I'm out of ideas. From time to time I receive a WMV attachment in an email. To play it, I must do one of 2 things: ensure Mail is the only SM window open before double-clicking on the WMV file in the SM attachment pane, or save the file to a folder and play it from there. In both those cases, double-clicking on the file opens Media Player and the movie plays. If an SM browser window is already open, the tab which has focus goes blank, the address bar shows the path to the file to be played, and then SM stops. No CPU freezes or system lockups, but SM goes no further. I've looked at Helper Apps and WMV files are listed under video/x-ms-wmv, but it makes no difference whether I leave it to the SM default action, or point the Helper App settings to the executable for WMP, same behavior. The about:plugins screen shows an entry for Windows Media Player as np-nswmp.dll for the file extension *.wmv as well. So long as the browser is closed, WMP does it's thing. If a browser window is open, nothing but a blank tab. Any ideas? its a known problem. I have the same problems, too. But I doubt this will be fixed in SM 1.1.x. Perhaps it will be for SM2. BTW: WMP 11 is the latest, not 10. -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world, except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned. Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon: http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3 http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
