Playing .avi in Firefox

[smooth31]

First off I'd like to thank the creators, administrators, and anyone who does any type of support for this software. It is without a doubt the best around and its free. Kinda weird that that works out. I tried like 3 or 4 other software programs that I had to pay for and they were terrible. So I just wanted to say thanks to all you guys for providing this and mainly for making it free.

Anyway, I have the latest version of Coppermine installed and our site focus's a great deal around videos. Currently we are hosting 70 videos and they are all in .avi format and compressed with the xVid Codec. For some reason NONE of the files will play in firefox and it just asks you to install missing plugins. The problem is that there are no missing plugins because I already have every single one

All of the files will play in IE but only 23 percent of the 10,000 users on my board use IE. Does anyone know of any way to get the videos to play in firefox? Any input would be greatly appreciated

[kegobeer]

This has been discussed at length - please search for firefox.  Not a Coppermine problem, try the Firefox forums.

[Casper]

And to point you in the right direction, also look at what version of quicktime you have, and the quicktime mime settings

[LMalnati]

I agree this is a firefox issue, but its too bad someone did not provide some further direction on this issue.  I just spent 4 hours figuring out this issue. 

Coppermine is a great product and lets face it Firefox will be around for a while as there user base continues to grow in market share.  Thus in order to further support Coppermine as more and more Coppermine users use Firefox I am providing below the solution I applied to Firefox.

1.  Install QuickTime PlugIn (See instructions at the below link for further instructions)
     http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206210
2.  ReOpen Firefox and go to tools/options/downloads/filetypes/
3.  Select "Change Action"
4.  Click on "Open them in this application:"
5.  Select your path for QuickTime "C\Program Files\QuickTime\QuickTimePlayer.exe

[LMalnati]

Can any Coppermine gurus respond to the below.  If I am interpreting the below correctly Mozilla is saying this is not a browser issue, but the application ?

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1247425

Specifically the line that says "The Windows Media Player browser plugin that Firefox uses is hard-coded to only play .asf, .asx, .wm, .wma, .wax, .wmv, and .wvx files, and no provision is provided to change that. If the web page embeds the file properly, it can play other file types but most websites don't do that."