Vista, WMP 11 and Coppermine

[FuzzyD]

Hello : )

I tried my best to use various searches to answer this question but couldn't find an answer.

I noticed that Windows Media Player 11 doesn't work with the built in media player feature of Coppermine.  I uploaded some MP3s and they play beautifully on my XP / WMP 10 laptop.  Is there a workaround for Vista users to enable the media player functionality for Coppermine?  To my knowledge, I don't think Vista users can downgrade to WMP 10.

Vista is still in beta (for non business use) but the official release if less than a month away so I figured I'd ask.

Thanks and I've enjoyed my first day of tinkering with Coppemine.

[FuzzyD]

Follow up:  I'm using Firefox 2.0 and the issue seems to be that it can't find the plugin necessary to play the mp3s in coppermine.  It looks for it but returns "no suitable plugin found"

I tried Vista's IE7 and it searched and found the necessary plugin so it seems the issue is with Firefox 2.0 in Vista if that helps.

Thanks

[FuzzyD]

Sorry for the triple post but I found a solution to my problem:

Getting Windows Media Player to work in Firefox on Vista
7:10pm ¤ Tech ¤ firefox, tip, vista

Here's a conundrum. Firefox is designed to automatically pick up the Windows Media Player Netscape plugin files when you start it up, so then there is no configuration necessary on your part. This has worked fine for Windows XP, but for Vista, something isn't right. You won't see WMP at all, instead you get told to install the "missing plugin," which the service can't find.

What's going on here? All previous versions of Windows included the Netscape plugin, but it seems Vista has cut that part out. It is easy to solve.

If you are dual-booting with another version of Windows, the easiest way is to copy a couple of files: npdrmv2.dll; npdsplay.dll; and npwmsdrm.dll. You'll find these in the Program Files\Windows Media Player directory in your older Windows partition. Copy these to the plugins folder where Firefox is installed (usually Program Files\Mozilla Firefox).

If not, you'll need to download these files. You can get them each: npdsplay.dll; npwmsdrm.dll; and npdrmv2.dll. As above, place them in your plugins folder where you installed Firefox.

Once you are done, the browser will instantly recognise the new plugin(s) and you'll be able to start using them.

There are alternatives to this solution, which can be found here.

I copied the files per above and Coppermine started playing media files in FF 2/Vista.

found here: (Sept 4th entry)

http://daniel.expdev.net/tag/firefox

Feel free to delete this post if the Firefox 2 / Vista combo isn't a major issue for most!

[Nibbler]

Thank you for posting the solution.