Windows Media Player 9.0 PlugIn?

jhimmel · Post by **jhimmel** » February 14th, 2003, 4:27 pm

Anyone able to get WMP 9.0 working as a Phoenix PlugIn?

It is working here in Netscape 7.01, but copying the WMP plugin file from the Netscape plugin folder to the poenix plugin folder didn't help.

Thanks,

Jim H.

badger · Post by **badger** » February 14th, 2003, 4:36 pm

jhimmel wrote:Anyone able to get WMP 9.0 working as a Phoenix PlugIn?

I am avoiding WMP 9.0 like the plague. you can't uninstall it. that type of behaviour bugs me.

fingerprint · Post by **fingerprint** » February 14th, 2003, 4:55 pm

Yes you can. It tells you in big bold print to do a sytem restore before you install it but there is another way. Add/Remove programs then on the left Add/Remove Windows components then uncheck Windows Media Player and it uninstalls.

Mgz · Post by **Mgz** » February 14th, 2003, 5:01 pm

jhimmel wrote:Anyone able to get WMP 9.0 working as a Phoenix PlugIn?

It is working here in Netscape 7.01, but copying the WMP plugin file from the Netscape plugin folder to the poenix plugin folder didn't help.

Thanks,

Jim H.

it should work

type
about:plugins in you address bar

jhimmel · Post by **jhimmel** » February 15th, 2003, 8:20 am

Mgz wrote:it should work

Well, what's happening is that Phoenix seems to be running an older version of WMP, even though the plugin DLL is the same. I thought maybe there is another file somewhere that needs to be copied.

Jim H

DarkAngel · Post by **DarkAngel** » February 15th, 2003, 9:33 am

i have the same problem here. It would be nice to see it use WMP9.

willll · Post by **willll** » February 15th, 2003, 10:03 am

How can you tell in its using WMP9? My about:plugins says I am using C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll which is version 3.0.2.627, according to the version tab in the properties window.

daihard · Post by **daihard** » February 15th, 2003, 11:19 am

willll wrote:How can you tell in its using WMP9? My about:plugins says I am using C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll which is version 3.0.2.627, according to the version tab in the properties window.

I'd imagine that's the DLL for WMP9. I just installed WMP9 on my XP box at work, and the version of npdsplay.dll shows 3.0.2.627.

willll · Post by **willll** » February 15th, 2003, 11:36 am

daihard wrote:I'd imagine that's the DLL for WMP9. I just installed WMP9 on my XP box at work, and the version of npdsplay.dll shows 3.0.2.627.

Did you check what the version was before you installed WMP9?

Mgz · Post by **Mgz** » February 15th, 2003, 5:21 pm

my old version is 3.0.2.626

wget · Post by **wget** » February 15th, 2003, 8:52 pm

fingerprint wrote:Add/Remove programs then on the left Add/Remove Windows components then uncheck Windows Media Player and it uninstalls.

Does it 'uninstall' in the same way that IE pretends to 'uninstall'?

willll · Post by **willll** » February 15th, 2003, 9:39 pm

wget wrote:
fingerprint wrote:Add/Remove programs then on the left Add/Remove Windows components then uncheck Windows Media Player and it uninstalls.

Does it 'uninstall' in the same way that IE pretends to 'uninstall'?

Yup. It just removes the shortcut.

daihard · Post by **daihard** » February 15th, 2003, 10:29 pm

willll wrote:
wget wrote:
fingerprint wrote:Add/Remove programs then on the left Add/Remove Windows components then uncheck Windows Media Player and it uninstalls.

Does it 'uninstall' in the same way that IE pretends to 'uninstall'?
Yup. It just removes the shortcut.

I remember there was a big public roar in Japan about the Beta version of WMP9 not 'uninstallable.' Microsoft's explanation: "WMP9, though it's Beta, cannot be uninstalled because it is so tightly integrated into Windows." DUH!

Z_God · Post by **Z_God** » February 16th, 2003, 5:42 am

The WMP9 plug-in should be in the WMP9 directory itself. Mozilla automaticly finds this plug-in (you do not need to copy it to your Mozilla plug-ins directory). I don't know how Phoenix does this. If it doesn't work, try copying NP*.DLL from the WMP9 directory to the Phoenix directory.

jhimmel · Post by **jhimmel** » February 16th, 2003, 12:22 pm

willll wrote:How can you tell in its using WMP9? My about:plugins says I am using C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\npdsplay.dll which is version 3.0.2.627, according to the version tab in the properties window.

When the plugin launches an embedded video window, right-click in the video window and select "About". The version I am getting in Poenix is 6.4.09.1125. The version I get in IE and Netscape 7.01 is version 9.00.00.2980. But besides that, you can see the difference right away - V9 has a completely new look.

And Z-God, I tried your suggestion. I coppied all NP*.DLL files from the WMP directory. No change.

One place you can try it is here -

http://www.news12.com/NewCDA/articles/a ... 0,00.html#

Click on the "News 12 Forcast" video link.

Jim H

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