{"id":5155,"date":"2011-01-17T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2011-04-10T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:20:32","slug":"firefox-und-windows-media-player-plugin-funktioniert-nicht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/2011\/01\/17\/firefox-und-windows-media-player-plugin-funktioniert-nicht\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox &#038; Windows Media Player: plugin not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5181\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/firefox-missing-plugin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/firefox-missing-plugin-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Missing WMP plugin\" title=\"Missing WMP plugin\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/firefox-missing-plugin-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/firefox-missing-plugin-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/firefox-missing-plugin.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Missing WMP plugin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>It has long bothered me that I couldn&#8217;t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: &#8220;Additional plugins are required (&#8230;)&#8221; There is <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/port25.technet.com\/pages\/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx\">a plugin<\/a> alright, and I&#8217;ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the plugin is missing. Might that be related to the fact that it dates from 2007?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now I finally found a solution: Download the latest versions of the files <code>npdsplay.dll<\/code>, <code>npdrmv2.dll<\/code>, and <code>npwmsdrm.dll<\/code> from <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlldump.com\/\">dlldump.com<\/a> and copy them to the Firefox plugins directory (for example <code>C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\plugins<\/code>).:&#8221;Windows Media Player(mozillaZine)&#8221;:http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Windows_Media_Player#Missing_plugin <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>These are the direct links to the latest versions:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlldump.com\/download-dll-files_new.php\/dllfiles\/N\/npdsplay.dll\/3.0.2.629\/download.html\">npdsplay.dll<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlldump.com\/download-dll-files_new.php\/dllfiles\/N\/npdrmv2.dll\/9.00.00.32508\/download.html\">npdrmv2.dll<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlldump.com\/download-dll-files_new.php\/dllfiles\/N\/npwmsdrm.dll\/9.00.00.3250\/download.html\">npwmsdrm.dll<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>After that restart Firefox, and the Media Player plugin should be working!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ins datetime=\"2011-04-10T17:07:29+00:00\">\r\n<h3>Update (10 April 2011)<\/h3>\r\n<p>In the new Firefox&nbsp;4, my media player plugin was broken again. This time the following DLL file fixed it: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dlldump.com\/download-dll-files_new.php\/dllfiles\/N\/np-mswmp.dll\/1.0.0.82\/download.html\">np-mswmp.dll<\/a>. Just download it and put it in the Firefox plugin folder as described above, then it should be working again.:&#8221;wmv files not playing within firefox 4.4 windows 7 with wmp12(Firefox Help)&#8221;:http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/en-US\/questions\/749695 <\/p>\r\n<\/ins>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has long bothered me that I couldn&#8217;t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: &#8220;Additional plugins are required (&#8230;)&#8221; There is a plugin alright, and I&#8217;ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[53,144,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}