WM files cannot be read by WMP while using Firebird?

We still use IE to see some sites that won’t let WMP (9.0 as well as 8.0) come up in Firebird. The following link will not open up the WMP except in IE:

http://www.inq7.net/video/index.htm

You have to scroll down inside the grey box on that page, to click on one of the many links for video feeds. None of the links will work in FB. When I try this in FB, all I get is a box that is basically an ad for WMP, as well as the toolbar for it at the bottom, but no video feed.

I think another thread I searched said something about active-x being required to bring up WMP in some sites. The site itself said Real Audio couldn't do it.

Can anyone tell me anything more about this? Thanks.

Thanks.
Paul

 

Using Mozilla 1.5 went to your link page, hit the same wall. So using PrefBar, change my "User Agent" -to- "IE 6.0 / WinXP ". I was able to select one of the video feeds and it opened up a second window with WMP loaded. But it would NOT down load the stream. Went into IE 6.0 and the link worked flawlessly. Until website designers code for non-IE browsers -or- Mozilla can mimic IE, not aware of a easy solution. You could send the site a email and explain the problem. You could continue to use IE for these sites, but follow this security advice for IE surfing. Unfortunately if you follow the rules, and it is a "active X" issue, you may run into the following quoted phrase .....
" "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly." "
Not a play on words, but the "NET" affect, you must lower your IE security and accept the problems it may cause. I would suggest finding a cooperative site which provides your needs, without sacrificing security.
Additional note....
A current bug in IE allows a skilled web designer to "Spoof your displayed URL ". An example.. the page your looking at is a perfect image of your "bank site ". The URL on your browser supports it.... but it is NOT your bank site. Spooky to say the least.

 

Thanks, Dennis. Lemme ask--is there any freeware that can read WM files? I have tried Winamp and a few others. None of them (at least the ones I have tried) can read ALL the video files, such as .ram, etc. This seems rather strange (to someone who knows nothing about video feeds), since my Jet Audio can read all the audio files I come across. The site I linked to said you had to have WMP to read it. Is there any other ap that can read their files?

Paul

 

WMP is a free program. The issue is how the website has chosen to deliver the information, resulting in what the user has to agree to acquire it. Ask the site to consider one of two options....
Provide the files as a downloaded file set. You can scan and then view the files locally using WMP.
Would they provide the stream using a file set that could be opened by non WMP players.

 

Thanks. I'll see if they can do that.

Paul

 

On the Mozillazine site, nobody has been able to post a real solution to the problem of WMP not opening up in FB. What follows is a post I made to someone there who was having the same problem. Perhaps someone here can come up with a theory (apart from something like, "Paul, you are practicing voodoo" or something like that) as to how this can work.


The only way I have been able to get WMP to run in FB is to have Media Classic Player installed as well. I kid you not. I was in the market for an open-source all-in-one media player and found this out. You might want to see if this will work for you as well. Here's the link to MPC:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Scroll down the page to find Media Player Classic.

On the other hand, if you are interested in finding a media player that will play everything, you might want to download the codecs to Real Player, so MPC can play real audio files as well. If you would give this a shot, you can kill two downloads with one stone, as the codecs file (called Real Alternative) also has a slightly older version of MPC already. If you might use MPC as a Real Player reader, you can download Real Alt and MPC together, here:


http://www.click-now.net/html/RealAlternative.htm

This might sound kind of silly, and I sure can't explain why this is the case, but as I said, all I know is that w/ MPC installed, FB is now reading WMP files, whereas before it couldn't.