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April 17, 2007
New Windows Media Player Plug-in and non-Firefox Browsers
Microsoft released the Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox plugin today. It is an .exe installer (no XPI, bah), and it copies the .dll (np-mswmp.dll) to the Firefox plugin directory rather than into one of the shared locations. So if you use a non-Firefox browser, better copy the dll over (the plugin doesn't seem to be scriptable since no .xpt is provided as far as I can see).
Posted by doron at April 17, 2007 3:27 PM
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It's actually plugin-in-msi-in-exe, so you can also use a mix of 7Zip and WiX (.sf.net) to extract the dll, if you don't have / want to install Firefox.
I haven't poked at the plugin yet, but it is possible to have scriptable plugins without .xpt via npruntime... (Remember, Opera doesn't have XPCOM.) Not sure if this is the case here.
Posted by: Mook at April 17, 2007 5:50 PM
There is a rather lame xpi at http://port25.technet.com/videos/downloads/wmpfirefoxplugin.xpi but it just includes the installer exe and runs it from what I can make out.
Posted by: Mossop at April 18, 2007 3:34 AM
It could use the NPAPI extensions (npruntime) for scriptability.
Posted by: christian biesinger at April 19, 2007 12:00 PM
You can indeed listen for events and script the Windows Media Player plugin in Firefox with the new release Microsoft/Port25 just put out.
I've got a quick HOWTO at:
http://www.therossman.org/experiments/wmp_play.html
Which shows how you can do it, it's actually pretty straightforward now! You can also z-index WMP with Firefox which my HOWTO also shows!
Cheers,
Rossman
Posted by: Rossman at April 21, 2007 1:04 PM