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 [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
