Installing Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

So you just bought a training video and popped it into your computer. You click on the menu in the autoplay dialog and it opens up Firefox, your default browser. Now you are staring at a blank screen.
What now?

The problem is most likely because you don't have the Windows Media

Player plugin installed for Firefox, so all we need to do is install it.

Note that you'll usually have the same problem anytime you try and view video files in FIrefox using Windows Media format, such as .wmv files.

Installation

Just download and run the plugin installer linked below. You'll probably want to close Firefox during the installation.

Verifying Plugin Installation

After running through the very quick installation wizard, you might be curious if the installation actually worked. While the easiest method is to just open a Windows Media video, you can also type the following into the address bar to see the list of loaded plugins:

about:plugins

And you should see the Windows Media Player plugin in the list. You can also see which file types Firefox will use the plugin on.

And now I can view this Windows Media format video file in Firefox…

Technical Notes

In case you have any issues with this installer, you might want to take a look at this list to help with your troubleshooting:

• The WMP plugin uses the IE Proxy settings, not the ones in Firefox.
  This is because the plugin itself is only a thin wrapper around Windows
  Media Player, which always uses IE internally to fetch data.
• The plugin files are installed to the "C:\Program Files\Mozilla
  Firefox\plugins" directory by default, and the file name is
  np-mswmp.dll. If the uninstaller fails to remove this file for whatever
  reason you can manually delete it.
• You could also theoretically copy the same .dll file into the
  plugins directory on any Firefox installation and it should work
  without running the installer.

Download Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin from port25.technet.com

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Sony's DSC-T200 ultracompact going big with 3.5-inch LCD, 5x zoom

So it looks like Sony is about to break us off with a very nicely spec'ed little waif of a camera, the 8 megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-T200 (pictured left). Oddly enough, SonyStyle Canada has all the juicy details about this unannounced, significant upgrade to the DSC-T100 -- and its little brother, the DSC-T70 (pictured right) -- posted up for the world to see before a single press released has passed our desks; we're talking 3.5-inch touchscreen, 5x optical zoom (3-inch / 3x on the T70), claimed 3200 max ISO, VGA video at 30fps, automatic face detection, and even optical image stabilization, all in sub-160-gram packages. No wireless radios onboard, unfortunately, but you are getting the ability to dock with Sony's optional CSS-HD1 Cyber-shot Station for TV, allowing images to be viewed in their full glory on high definition sets. Despite the mounds of info and images displayed on these microsites -- along with overseas enthusiast site e-Photographia -- there are still no pricing / release details to be found, so we'll keep our eyes open. You can check out the T200, lens cover down, after the break...

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Eye-Fi: First Wireless Memory Card for Digital Cameras

Now here's a great idea. Take a normal-looking 2GB SD card. Add a
wireless chip to it. Stick the whole thing into your camera, and before
you know it you've got a wireless camera. Now add a dose of software
smarts onto the SD card to manage the whole thing and what do you get?
You get a quick wireless ticket straight from your camera to any one of
17 different social networks or photo-sharing sites including Facebook, blogging sites like TypePad, photo-sharing sites like Flickr and Snapfish,
or your PC or Mac. If you've been lamenting how your photos never seem
to make it out of the camera, lament no more. The price? $99.99 with
2GB of storage (about 1,000 photos).

I caught up with Jef Holove, CEO of Eye-Fi,
shortly after this product was announced. He shed some additional light
on how stuff works behind the scenes. The card has everything,
including the software necessary to get you up and running. All you
need to do is tell the card which service you want your photos sent to.
It also archives the photos on your PC or Mac. And while you can belong
to multiple services, you can't send your photos to more than one at a
time. Currently the card supports JPEG files only, but transmits photos
without any degradation in resolution. It will resize the photos if the
online destination requires it.

Holove says, "Digital cameras
made it extremely easy to take pictures, but the rest of the process is
a hassle." Wireless, he says, will make things much easier. We'll have
a review unit momentarily and report back, but this sounds like a
winner.

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