Waiting for Video

[pdcorcoran]

I changed the player to external player to see what it would do, and I got "Waiting for Video" instead of music opening up in Winamp. When I changed it back to web player, I STILL get "Waiting for Video."

I'm using v. 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.04.

Thanks.

[jigsaw]

Hi pdcorcoran

I have recently been experiencing the same issue as you. After a lot of trying this and that I finally realized that it is actually the VLC plugin for Firefox that was causing the problem. I realized this after as a last resort uninstalled VLC and then it worked. I installed VLC again, causing the problem to arise yet again.

The solution was quite simple: Disable VLC plugin ( or don't install it at all ). Here's how to do it in Firefox:
Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins -> VLC Multimedia Plug-in 0.9.9.0 -> Disable

It seems the VLC plugin somehow overrides the Firefox handling of m3u-files. Firefox does not ask what to do, but simply assumes that it must be VLC. When VLC was removed I got the prompt, and chose Winamp. However this choice was forgotten as soon as the VLC plugin re-entered Firefox - and the option is no longer available in the usual Applications-menu of Firefox. The file type m3u is also registered as a Winamp-file in my Windows XP installation, but that made no difference at all.

Personally I classify this as a VLC Mozilla plugin bug.

Edit: It's interesting for me to know whether the case was the same with you? You mention that you are running on Ubuntu ( client side I presume? ). Do you have the VLC Mozilla plugin installed?

[rangoz]

Thank you...............you solved my problem too. I have been trying to listen to internet operas from around the world and when I disabled the plug in from vlc all went well................

[SuperMario]

Excellent! I had the same problem and your solution worked fine.

Windows 7, Firefox 3.6.8

Thanx!

[Kirk]

VLC's plugin seems to do more harm than good. I've been disabling it right off the bat lately...