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donnadunc
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July 5, 2018
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Playing MPEG-4 Videos with Flash Player 30 NPAPI

  • July 5, 2018
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Our operating system is Windows XP - default browser is Mozilla Firefox - have installed Adobe Flash Player 30 NPAPI and still can't play MPEG-4 Videos.  Any suggestions?

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    Correct answer Robert Mc Dowell

    Yes I do understand that Flash is a plugin, but Firefox (so far) won't accept its installation - is there some other step I need to take to have it recognized by Firefox?

    What I'm trying to do is be able to watch MPEG-4 videos, many of which are forwarded via email. Others are links in articles and news stories.


    Flash never allows you to watch directly an MP4, a developer must program a player for that.

    Again, Flash is NOT a movie player. so if you already installed it

    so type into the url field of firefox about:plugins

    and you will see that Flash is installed.

    Now, for what you want to do, Flash is not and never be done for that.

    Rather a program that reads MP4 must be installed in your OS.

    usually it's already possible, so you just need to go in your firefox preferences -> applications

    then choose manually which program you want to use to watch MP4.

    if you are still confused so my advice is to install VLC

    https://www.videolan.org/

    then restart firefox and with some luck you when you will click on an MP4 so VLC will open.

    if it's not the case just do what I commented above

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    Robert Mc Dowell
    Robert Mc Dowell
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    July 5, 2018

    any link where you cannot play it?

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    donnaduncAuthor
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    July 5, 2018

    Even though I've uninstalled and then re-installed the Flash player several times, it still isn't listed in the Firefox plugins, so it isn't listed as one of the programs in "Open With...".  In the Firefox "Application" list, the only option is "Use QuickTime mp4 (default).

    Why won't Firefox accept the installation of the Flash program?

    Robert Mc Dowell
    Robert Mc Dowell
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    July 5, 2018

    I think you slightly misunderstood what is Flash.

    Flash is not a program but a runtime engine as plugin for browsers, not a player.

    Please describe with details what do you like to achieve so I will give you the right solution

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