{"id":1093,"date":"2007-05-14T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T06:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2010-07-20T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T00:01:23","slug":"missing-codecs-in-firefox-to-play-video-in-gallery2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/missing-codecs-in-firefox-to-play-video-in-gallery2\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Codecs in Firefox to Play Video in Gallery2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong><\/ins>:<\/p>\n

Instead of doing all the work below, you should first try installing this plug-in: Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every once in awhile, I’ll hit a video on my gallery that requires me to download a codec, but telling it to download fails to find a codec that’ll work. If I copy and paste the URL into IE, the video plays fine. I started searching the Gallery forums.<\/p>\n

I found this thread: Combination Gallery 2\/AVI\/Firefox does not display video<\/a>, and it appears a lot of people are hitting this issue:<\/p>\n

When adding an AVI file to my gallery it is recognized and ffmpeg creates a thumbnail for it. Viewing the item with Internet Explorer will result in the video being displayed.<\/p>\n

However this does not work with Firefox. For some reason it seems that the Windows Media Player plugin in firefox does not recognize the video\/x-msvideo MIME-type. Check about:plugins and scroll to Windows Media Player to confirm this.<\/p>\n

Technically this is not a Gallery problem, but a bug by Microsoft in there Firefox support. However since Microsoft is not very likely to fix this it would be nice if someone could provide a work-around and integrate this into Gallery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before, I would just tell every video to use mime type: video\/x-ms-wmv, however, Gallery2 supports a wider range of mime types, so I decided to let it do its own thing.<\/p>\n

It turns out, to fix this problem, you need to associate video\/x-msvideo in Firefox. Instructions provided by: Avi in firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To do this, open the following file in notepad:
\n%APPDATA%\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\pluginreg.dat<\/p>\n

Search for “Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library” and add the bolded lines:<\/p>\n

Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library|$
\n10<\/strong>
\n0|application\/asx|Media Files|*|$
\n1|video\/x-ms-asf-plugin|Media Files|*|$
\n2|application\/x-mplayer2|Media Files|*|$
\n3|video\/x-ms-asf|Media Files|asf,asx,*|$
\n4|video\/x-ms-wm|Media Files|wm,*|$
\n5|audio\/x-ms-wma|Media Files|wma,*|$
\n6|audio\/x-ms-wax|Media Files|wax,*|$
\n7|video\/x-ms-wmv|Media Files|wmv,*|$
\n8|video\/x-ms-wvx|Media Files|wvx,*|$
\n9|video\/x-msvideo|Media Files|avi,*|$<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Increasing 9 to 10 tells it that there’s 10 mime types you should associate this plug-in with. Adding the video\/x-msvideo line tells it to associate mime types of that with Windows Media Player. Afterwards, all my avi files began to play fine.<\/p>\n

After saving this file, restart Firefox and video with the mime type of x-msvideo should play fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Instead of doing all the work below, you should first try installing this plug-in: Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin Every once in awhile, I’ll hit a video on my gallery that requires me to download a codec, but telling it to download fails to find a codec that’ll work. If I copy and paste … <\/p>\n

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