I have a similar problem. I am trying to view a Microsoft video using VLC media player via Firefox under XP.
The URL for the stream is:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... 04_low.asx
In IE6 it works fine: I just click on the link (Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP/Server 2003
Low Bandwidth) in the previous page (
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... ideos.mspx) that points at the URL above, and the standard dialogue asks me if I want to open or save the file, and correctly identifying that I have VLC player set as the default program to open an asx file.
When I click on 'Open', VLC player is loaded and after a short delay the video ([url]mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/buzzbee04_low.wmv[/url]) plays without incident.
However, when I click on the same link in FF, absolutely nothing visible or audible happens at all - even if VLC is already open.
Following VLC_help's advice, I looked to see if he VLC plugin for Firefox was installed. The only place I could find was Tool->add-ons, but this did not list it, so I reinstalled it from vlc-0.8.6c-win32.exe (answering 'No' to the question "Do you want to remove the previous version before installing . . .?" in the install dialogue but checking only "Mozzilla plugin" in the "Choose components" dialogue). However, after this operation I can still see no reference to the VLC plugin on the Tools -> add-ons window in Firefox - even after reloading FF.
I have also followed Arite's advice at:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=41178&p=128796&hilit=mms#p128389, and checked "Force selection of all streams" in MMS access module - but also to no avail.
This looks like a failure of Firefox, or the plugin, or the plugin's installation program, not of VLC, because VLC plays the video fine from another browser.
XP SP2
Firefox: 2.0.0.7
Thanks for any help and I hope this might shed some light on ad00d's problem.