MediaPlayer vs RealPlayer

Alice,

That's what I am using. NS 4.79 with the MediaPlayer 6.4 plug-in installed.

The codec I was referring to is:

MS MPEG-4 Codecs. I don't know if this is for my version of MP or for later versions.

At any rate this is not working for me. When I get the IE install done, I will check it out.

Thanks for all your help!

Ann

 

I just went to http://www.msnbc.com/ in NS4.79 and I had no problem with the news video clip. Have you tried either the msnbc or the Yahoo broadcaste site using Internet Explorer? If the video doesn't work there either then it must be a Windows Media Player issue, not a Netscape plugin issue. What I would try first, in that case, would be to install the Windows Media Player Codecs from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=31921

For the record, I installed WMP 6.4 as a "supplemental" IE5.5 install, by going back into Add/Remove Programs Internet Explorer - Add Components, and adding the components "Media Player" and "Media Player Codecs ".

This is from http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#wmv
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Q: How do I get WMP6 and earlier to play back WMV and the other new ASF file types? For example, on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.
A: The V8 Codec redist - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=31921 - is what you want.
This is the codec redist for WMP (or offline computers or Intranets or CD-ROM distribution or etc.) updated with the new codecs ( WMV7, WMV8, WMA8 ).
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"wmv" is one of the filetypes included in the WMP plugin for Netscape (video/x-ms-wmv)

I also found this with a google search:

From: Erik (Erik@pasdespam.lordfamily.org)
Subject: Re: anyone who uses a lot of video
Newsgroups: macromedia.authorware
Date: 2001-11-28 14:21:19 PST

(snip)
I think this pretty much supports what I was thinking - that .wmv is a file *format* primarily, but also happens to use a codec that is either WMV7 or WMV8. (snip)
And I do still believe that while these 'wmv' codecs are specific/proprietary to MS (surprise! , they still are variants of the MPEG4 codec....