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Streaming media problem

  • 17-11-2005 5:36pm
    #1
    Pet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭


    Recently I installed an old (windows 98) game from the web. It seems to have installed some kind of windows media plugin, so that whenever I open a page that has a streaming video (such as myspace) it crashes Firefox. If I open the page with IE, I can see that the video player is an old version of windows media player (like 7 or 8 or something) cos it has the old logo.

    How do I go about fixing this, any ideas? It's really annoying and and I don't know where to start.


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  • #2
    Cryos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Cryos


    Pet wrote:
    Recently I installed an old (windows 98) game from the web. It seems to have installed some kind of windows media plugin, so that whenever I open a page that has a streaming video (such as myspace) it crashes Firefox. If I open the page with IE, I can see that the video player is an old version of windows media player (like 7 or 8 or something) cos it has the old logo.

    How do I go about fixing this, any ideas? It's really annoying and and I don't know where to start.

    Control Panel > add remove programs

    see if its listed there and remove it; let us know how ya get on


  • #3
    Pet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    Nope, tried that. There's no listing for either the game (it was an open-source legal mod thing) or the codec itself. It's really getting annoying now. Firefox keeps crashing and I don't like using IE..


  • #4
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Try reinsalling FF?


  • #5
    Pet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Pet


    I figured it out! I reregistered wmp.dll with regsrv32 or whatever and it fixed it!


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