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MOV movies starts up without sound

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We made some private movies with an older camera and these have the extension MOV. I uploaded them to the site of my wife. One of them:

http://www.aleksandra.nl/temp/BaltissenWianki.MOV

The main problem: when opening it with Firefox, it starts to play immidiatly, but without sound.

A second problem: FF starts the movie without asking me and I would like to change that behavior so that it asks me what to do with this file. I know it should be changed in options but "MOV" is not listed and I have no idea how to add it.

Thank you for you help!

Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen

We made some private movies with an older camera and these have the extension MOV. I uploaded them to the site of my wife. One of them: http://www.aleksandra.nl/temp/BaltissenWianki.MOV The main problem: when opening it with Firefox, it starts to play immidiatly, but without sound. A second problem: FF starts the movie without asking me and I would like to change that behavior so that it asks me what to do with this file. I know it should be changed in options but "MOV" is not listed and I have no idea how to add it. Thank you for you help! Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen

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You can set this pref to false on the about:config page to prevent Firefox from playing media files via the HTML5 media player.

  • media.play-stand-alone = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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I can understand that Firefox doesn't support the codec. But why doesn't FF allow me to store the file? Watching a movie without sound doesn't make sense. Downloading it and watching it with another program, like Internet Explorer does, that at least makes some sense. And no, I'm not a fan of IE but in this case FF let me really down. Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen

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Chosen Solution

You can set this pref to false on the about:config page to prevent Firefox from playing media files via the HTML5 media player.

  • media.play-stand-alone = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Thank you very much!