Mozilla/Firefox - Directshow player?

I did a frest install (removing the present versions) of Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox
1.5.0.1. I also reinstalled directx 9c since firefox was giving me a problem while
trying to view movie trailers on yahoo.

The error i'm getting is: Cannot create directshow player.

Everything else works fine but i'm stuck. I figured that a re-install of directx
would fix the problem.......

Any ideas?

thanks,
savagcl

 

More Info -

Mozilla does play the streaming video (movie trailers).
Firefox will not play them.

I saw something about the plugin "npdsplay.dll may fix it but it didnt work. I
copied the plugin from mozilla to firefox plugins folder and its a nogo.

Still looking.

thanks,
savagcl

 

I think i've narrowed it down to windows media player 6.0 codecs.....

Any idea where i can get this (set?) of codecs?

time to start searching.

thanks,
savagcl

 

I have Windows Media Player 10. Do you really mean codecs for 6.0?
As for playing WMP files, you should have the proper activeX plugin , as well. I am not sure if the listed plugin, for 1.5, will work with 1.5.0.1.
With recalcitrant websites, read Yahoo or similar ones, I surrendered, and use the IE Tabs extention. But, I don't like to do that, so I boycott such websites. I can see perfectly good videos, elsewhere.

 

Westside,

I have WMP10 installed OK.
maybe i messed up by re-installing an old version of netscape 4.7?

I restored my system (C partition only) from 2 days ago. That seems to have
taken care of the directshow problem but now it just wants to do a search for
a plugin (which it never finds BTY).

My Firefox plugin folder has these:
GetFlash.exe
GetFlash.exe.manifest
np32dsw.dll
NPAdbESD.dll
npagent.dll
npDivxPlayerPlugin.dll
npnul32.dll
nppdf32.dll
nppl3260.dll
npqtplugin2.dll
npqtplugin3.dll
npqtplugin4.dll
npqtplugin5.dll
npqtplugin6.dll
npqtplugin.dll
nprpjplug.dll
nslDivxPlayerPlugin.xpt
nslQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
QuickTimePlugin.class
ShockwavePlugin.class
TVicHW32.sys
TVICHW32.VXD

Maybe the problem is in this plugin folder?
I dont reconize the last 2 (TVicHW32/TVICHW32) at all. Have no idea where
they came from.

thanks for the responce,
savagcl

 

Next step!

I restored my c drive again.
I tried Mozilla and can see the movie trailers.
I deleted all the plugins for Firefox and copied all plugins from Mozilla plugins
folder to firefox plugins folder.
So now, i'm back to the directshow player error.


???????
savagcl

 

Got it!

Answer was so simple i could kick myself, very hard!

Just had to re-install WMP and just to be safe i also re-installed Sun Java.

Works fine now.

Thanks for the help.
savagcl

 

Life is not easy. But, you did things correctly at the end. Most people blame the browser, when the best solution is with the media player reinstall.
I remember that, in the past, when I was beta testing the various AOL7 versions, I could not get Real Player to work. Invariably the solution was to reinstall the player. One person had complained that the AOL version was reinstalled about ten times, and that a new one was downloaded every time!
As for the TVICHW32 files, you may want to read this article , which offers a test to see if it is a legit windows file, or the products of malware.
But, forget it about it, if you don't have it, anymore.

 

Well, that article didnt help much but its gone anyway.

The hardest part of any problem is the analysis and since i had a hard
indication of another App, Firefox was only the carrier of the problem. I knew
it was somewhere else.

Thanks for the assist, Westside. It helped to have another input source.
savagcl