m3u problem

Ilyushin76

When I try to open an m3u file in firefox it asks me what do I want to open it with.Before it used to play m3u in the windows media player in firefox.Anybody know how to fix it.

JonathanAnon

File Association problem...

Follow the instructions on this..

http://www.ehow.com/how_2052279_change-file-type-associations-windows.html

woolymammoth

jebus!, I know how to do that and even i got bored reading those instructions!

Right click on your m3u file > open with > Choose default program;

Choose your program (Win Media Player in your case OP), browse if you have to, but just make sure and tick the box that says "always use this program to open tis kind of file". hit OK and you're done!

Now, it may be a problem with Firefox, where you have to tell it what to do with m3u files from now on!

Ilyushin76

Thanks but thats not what I want to do.I want to open the m3u in windows media player plugin in firefox not in the stand alone player.

woolymammoth

so either the windows media plugin for ff is broken and needs to be reinstalled, or you just need to tell ff what to do with the file type when hit the link. what's the url of the m3u file?

Ilyushin76

http://www.liveatc.net/get_asx_feed.php?mount=hf_atl_ei7

Every time I clicked that link it opened in firefox in the windows media player plugin.It now asks what I want to do with this file.I tried changing it in the applications option in firefox but it doesnt give the option for the wmp plugin in the list.Thanks for trying to fix this for me

woolymammoth

try installing the media player plugin for firefox.
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx

Ilyushin76

Thanks have that done.It used to play in that plugin and just stopped ,I reinstalled it and no good.

Dacelonid

In Firefox go to Tools -> Options.
Go to the applications tab
Find m3u in the list of Content Type's
Make sure the default action is set to "Use Windows Media Player plugin"
restart Firefox and try again (probably not needed, but anyway)

woolymammoth

well it didn't work for me either. i think the plugin just doesn't work well anymore on newer versions of FF. you could try installing an older version of firefox, or live with it opening in media player!

Ilyushin76

Dacelonid wrote: »

In Firefox go to Tools -> Options.
Go to the applications tab
Find m3u in the list of Content Type's
Make sure the default action is set to "Use Windows Media Player plugin"
restart Firefox and try again (probably not needed, but anyway)

Tried that but it doesnt give the option off that plugin.I tried searching for it but couldnt find it.

woolymammoth wrote: »

well it didn't work for me either. i think the plugin just doesn't work well anymore on newer versions of FF. you could try installing an older version of firefox, or live with it opening in media player!

They problem with that is you can only listen to 1 stream at a time.In the plugin you could open a different stream in each tab.

woolymammoth

vlc perhaps?

woolymammoth

actually, have you tried using Chrome?

Dacelonid

John85 wrote: »

Tried that but it doesnt give the option off that plugin.I tried searching for it but couldnt find it.

What plugins are listed when you do this.

As someone already mentioned that particular plugin may be disabled due to incompatibility with that version of firefox.
Go to Tools -> Addons
click Plugins
Is the plugin listed here, is it grayed out.