9 February 2007 - 10:23mplayer Firefox plugin in Vista

Even though most of the videos you’ll come across on the web these days will be flash based, a few of them still use embedded WMV/Quicktime. (…You know, the technologies that Ms and Apple spent so much time and money developing?) For those of you using Firefox in Vista that want a quick and painless way to watch videos at places like gametrailers, NeoWin has the info you need (care of the Mozillazine knowledge base).

Neowinian Basho1 posts:

You need to copy three files (npwmsdrm.dll, npdrmv2.dll and npdsplay.dll) to the “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins” directory.

Done. You don’t even have to restart the browser. Check about:plugins and try watching a video to see if it worked.

2 Comments | Tags: software, tech

Comments:

  1. Jay says;
    09 Feb 2007 - 21:22

    Isn’t it quicker/less painless to use the already embedded WMP 11 player?

    And how does this software handle QTVR?

  2. DMack says;
    11 Feb 2007 - 17:49

    WMP11 isn’t currently installed automatically in Firefox on Vista. This post is a work-around for that.

    To answer your second question: Windows Media Player doesn’t do Quicktime VR at all.

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