[Wine] Windows Firefox for running abc.com videos

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 21:08:46 CDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM, jyanek <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I am trying to get Windows Firefox v2.0.0.14 to run abc.com videos (to watch Lost episodes).  I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04, with Wine 0.9.60.  It crashes in trying to start to run a video.  It will browse OK, and even make it to the abc.com site.  However, when I try to run a video, it crashes.  specific error is:
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>  "Move Media Player.  The Plugin performed an illegal operation"
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>  This was working using Ubuntu 7.10 with Wine 9.4x (not sure which version it was, perhaps 9.46?).  I do not know how to downgrade wine to work with Ubuntu 8.04 ... tried it and the repository gave me an error, probably since I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.
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>  Thanks for the help.   I am trying to get a "turnkey" solution to work so my wife can easily watch the videos.  I can use VirtualBox to do this (works fine), just too many steps.  Wine was slick.  One click and I was there!
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>  Please help.
>  Thanks,
>  Jay
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Please run a regression test:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting



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