Safari does not play media

When i go to a site that needs real player or Windows media to play safari sends me a message saying that i need a media player to watch video. I have the media players and it worked perfectly 2 days ago and the whole morning before it decided to flash this notice on it's screen. It seems to have trouble espicially with Atomfilms.com which was never ever the case. i can use internet explorer just fine. Netscape however has the same problem wheni try to view a movie. Any suggestions would be helpful.

John, Michael,
I found a browser plugin 'conflict' on two Macs. An "older" plugin located in the /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ directory prevented certain Java scripts from executing. Hopefully this will correct your issues as well.
Affected browsers Safari and Firefox (v1.0.7). . .
Sites like AtomFilms.com, on clicking a movie such as "Hero" will always display a web page indicating a media player application is required to view the film with install selections for "Windows Media Player for Mac" or "Real Player 10 for Mac". I already have both of these apps installed on my Mac OS 10.3.9 systems.
BTW, and this actually gave me a clue, MS Internet Explorer (v 5.2.3) will always function properly and play the selected AtomFilms.com film feature choice! Only Safari and Firefox will not load the proper plug-in and play the film selection.
I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, working from Java error log files in Console. It eventually came down to a single plugin- Java Applet.plugin "Get Info" displays the plug-in version v1.2.0 (for Java 1.3.1), created August 3, 2004. Dragging this file to the Desktop out of the folder
/Library/Internet Plug-ins/Java Applet.plugin
logging out then logging back in to my user account corrected the problem on both Mac OS 10.3.9 systems. This plug-in file is likely to be found if you have performed several Software Updates since Panther 10.3.5.
Please note that Firefox will require these two plug-in files
MRJPlugin.plugin
JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle
preferably version 0.9.5 of each for Java to properly function with that browser. Go to the Sourceforge.net webpage for Project: Java Embedding Plugin, for the most recent plug-in installer download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?groupid=107955&packageid=116499
Hope this helps fix your media player problem!
- Dave

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