Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Apr 2007 16:50 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Multimedia, AV Microsoft has released a Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox. The plugin obviously only works on Windows. "We couldn't respond as quickly as we would have liked to (we had to get Windows Vista out the door!), but now that it's shipped, the team has moved its attention to getting Firefox users up and running. This week we are happy to say that we have a new plug-in for Firefox that makes WMP work once again."
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RE[4]: wooopy
by TaterSalad on Tue 17th Apr 2007 19:08 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: wooopy"
TaterSalad
Member since:
2005-07-06

Yes it does have something to do with VLC. WMP worked fine before installing VLC. After installing VLC I was no longer able to watch videos using WMP. I uninstall VLC and I was able to watch video again. I do not have winamp installed and have not installed it in a couple of years.

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RE[5]: wooopy
by sappyvcv on Tue 17th Apr 2007 19:12 in reply to "RE[4]: wooopy"
sappyvcv Member since:
2005-07-06

VLC probably installed codecs that conflicted somehow.

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RE[6]: wooopy
by Earl Colby pottinger on Tue 17th Apr 2007 19:18 in reply to "RE[5]: wooopy"
Earl Colby pottinger Member since:
2005-07-06

Maybe it is different in Windows than under BeOS. But VLC for BeOS has all it's plug-ins(codecs) in a local directory to the VLC software - they should only be visible to VLC.

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RE[6]: wooopy
by dylansmrjones on Tue 17th Apr 2007 20:04 in reply to "RE[5]: wooopy"
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

VLC doesn't install codecs.

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RE[5]: wooopy
by Earl Colby pottinger on Tue 17th Apr 2007 19:14 in reply to "RE[4]: wooopy"
Earl Colby pottinger Member since:
2005-07-06

No, that does not sound like VLC is the problem, more like WMP. Like the person said who replied to you before all VLC should is register that it is the preferred player for certain media files.

If WMP gives you a blank screen on a video media file just because it is no longer the preferred player then there is a bug (feature?) in WMP.

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