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Tom45
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 10 Mar 2006, 23:04 · [Salvaged from Archive]
I know that has been asked several times, but my videos don`t work any more. I use firefox and windows media player 9. The vids are loading 5 seconds, then they stop. 1 day before, everything worked fine. Now I gotta download them all and thats taking time (more then streaming). Please help!!! |
crimelabguy
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 15 Mar 2006, 22:22 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Same thing happens to me, using Firefox and media player 10. Don't know if it was an update to media player or from filecabi.
any help would be appreciated. |
hi
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 16 Mar 2006, 03:50 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Sometimes I find the video will buffer and then won't actualy play. This is likley because media player does not have the right video codec to play the video.
The media player plugin for firefox has always been kind of flaky, I supose getting it to work on a 3rd party browser is not one of Microsofts priorities. :wink:
If the video plays when you download it, then it is not a codec problem. There are a few things you could try.
1) Try using Realplayer instead of Media player in Firefox. http://www.download.com/RealPlayer/3000-2139_4-10255189.h… I know for a fact it works well in firefox, I am not sure if can make firefox use it instead of the media player imbeded player... You should be able to because...
2) VLC player. This definatley works in firefox instead of the media player imbeded player. The only thing is, it does not seem to start playing untill it has downloaded the entire video (no streaming). This could be a mistake on my part in the options, duno.
The VLC player is a very usefull tool to have on your pc. It never needs codecs to play video, so It can play almost anything you can throw at it, from web movies to DVD's. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
I use this if I cant get a video to play in anything else.
Finaly, if when you play a video you get sound but no picture, you are missing the codec needed. You can use this program to work out which codec you need to play it, and download the codec.: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ (Weird name I know :p ) |
Rajit25
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 16 Mar 2006, 19:43 · [Salvaged from Archive]
only the last part of the url sounds weird...
i hope it is not what i am thinking... :oops: |
