Firebird and Windows Media

[tappel]

After years of using IE, I'm now playing with Mozilla Firebird. Love it so far, but can't figure out why certain links to Windows Media files appear as text. I briefly searched the Firebird forums and most people asking this question are told that it's a server config issue.

Here's a link page that has wmv files that all appear as text in Firebird:
http://jonathankalb.net/video.html

Any ideas?

Tom

[Randall]

A server config would be my guess, too. Even if you disable the WMV plugin in Options it still displays as text.

Randall

[Bob]

Hello Tom,

Adding a .htaccess file as noted below to the site in question will allow .wmv, and other MS files, to open in the correct player when using Firebird... at least for me :)

AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx
AddType audio/x-ms-wma wma
AddType audio/x-ms-wax wax
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv
AddType video/x-ms-wvx wvx
AddType video/x-ms-wm wm
AddType video/x-ms-wmx wmx
AddType application/x-ms-wmz wmz
AddType application/x-ms-wmd wmd


make sure the file is named .htaccess and after the last line you add a line feed.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/mime.asp?frame=true#mime_topic4

Hope this helps,
Bob

[Adam]

Why does it not just try and download the file, as it would with any other extension it didn't recognise?

[tappel]

Thanks guys!

Bob, where exactly should that file be placed?

Tom

[Bob]

Hi again Tom,

As far as I know it can be placed directly within the /www directory and theoretically would be effective for all directories below it however in testing I simply placed it at the same level as the .wmv file I tested with...

Adam you would have to take that up with the Mozilla development folks as this seems to be a widely discussed issue within their forums...

-Bob

- Firebird, faulty or not... It is MY browser of choice 8} -

[tappel]

Thanks again, Bob.

I put it in the /www directory and it does indeed work.

http://jonathankalb.net/video.html

Tom

[Bob]

Hi again Tom,

Sheila and I both can confirm they do work properly in Firebird now :)

G'Deal and enjoy the weekend,
Bob