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Hello.
I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600:
Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |
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BillW50 wrote:
popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Thanks for the reply. Does your setup use a WMP browser plugin for firefox 2? |
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FWIW, it plays fine here, XP pro SP3, IE 8 WMP 11.
"popcorn" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:21 -0600:
BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Thanks for the reply. Does your setup use a WMP browser plugin for firefox 2? Yes it does. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Xandros Linux (build 2007-10-19 13:03) |
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BillW50 wrote:
popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Plays fine here (on Windows XP, WMP 7.) Neither you nor OP indicated the specs of your PCs or type of Internet connection you have. Not enough RAM, a slow processor, or a slow dial-up connection would surely affect whether or not the video plays properly. Plus your symptoms are different (it does play for you, just not smoothly). If (either of) you play(s) this cached browser file in your TIF directory: 41793244-4077-4253-b74c-969caf240ab5.wmv what happens? (I suspect OP doesn't even have this file.) |
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BillW50 typed on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:39 -0600: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:21 -0600: BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Thanks for the reply. Does your setup use a WMP browser plugin for firefox 2? Yes it does. Just checked on this Windows XP SP2 machine with WMP10 and it worked fine. Although it downloaded the media file first and then downloaded a codec before it would play. I can check on a Windows 7 machine if you want. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 (quit Windows updates back in May 2009) |
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Jean Rosenfeld wrote:
FWIW, it plays fine here, XP pro SP3, IE 8 WMP 11. Thanks, good to know the site works. "popcorn" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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popcorn wrote:
Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I have no problems here with WinXP SP3 and Firefox 3.54 with the WMP plugin. -- Roy Smith Windows XP Pro SP3 |
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Daave wrote:
BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Plays fine here (on Windows XP, WMP 7.) Neither you nor OP indicated the specs of your PCs or type of Internet connection you have. Not enough RAM, a slow processor, or a slow dial-up connection would surely affect whether or not the video plays properly. Plus your symptoms are different (it does play for you, just not smoothly). If (either of) you play(s) this cached browser file in your TIF directory: 41793244-4077-4253-b74c-969caf240ab5.wmv what happens? (I suspect OP doesn't even have this file.) Hi Daave. Thanks for your reply. I don't think hardware or bandwidth resources are the issue for either of my machines. They both have a minumum of T1 internet line, 1.5gb ram, and P4 2.0ghz processor. You are correct that I do not have the 41793244-4077-4253-b74c-969caf240ab5.wmv file in my temp internet files. |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... In , BillW50 typed on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:39 -0600: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:21 -0600: BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Thanks for the reply. Does your setup use a WMP browser plugin for firefox 2? Yes it does. Just checked on this Windows XP SP2 machine with WMP10 and it worked fine. Although it downloaded the media file first and then downloaded a codec before it would play. I can check on a Windows 7 machine if you want. The above was with IE6, btw. Not much luck under Windows 7 and IE8. Played the audio, but no video. Tried the following and no changes: 1) With K-Lite Mega 4.95 installed 2) Without K-Lite Mega 4.95 installed 3) With K-Lite Mega 5.40 installed -- Bill Windows 7 Ultimate (build 7100) Asus EEE PC 702G16 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC |
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Plays nicely on Gom player , vista . On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:29 -0600, popcorn wrote: Jean Rosenfeld wrote: FWIW, it plays fine here, XP pro SP3, IE 8 WMP 11. Thanks, good to know the site works. "popcorn" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , BillW50 typed on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:39 -0600: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:21 -0600: BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Thanks for the reply. Does your setup use a WMP browser plugin for firefox 2? Yes it does. Just checked on this Windows XP SP2 machine with WMP10 and it worked fine. Although it downloaded the media file first and then downloaded a codec before it would play. I can check on a Windows 7 machine if you want. The above was with IE6, btw. Not much luck under Windows 7 and IE8. Played the audio, but no video. Tried the following and no changes: 1) With K-Lite Mega 4.95 installed 2) Without K-Lite Mega 4.95 installed 3) With K-Lite Mega 5.40 installed Tried the same under another Windows 7 machine with IE8 and the same thing. This one has K-Lite Mega 5.0.0 installed. -- Bill Windows7 Ultimate (build 7100) Gateway MX6124 - 2G RAM |
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Tip: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player
popcorn wrote: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. |
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popcorn wrote:
Daave wrote: BillW50 wrote: popcorn wrote on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:41 -0600: Hello. I have 2 machines, both XPsp3, one has IE6 & WMP10 and one has IE7 & WMP12. When I try to play media at a link such as the one below: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...edia-player-12 I have the same problem on both machines. When the page loads, it looks like it's ready to play (displays "ready" above the seek slider), but when I click on the play button, it flashes "connecting" real quick, but then goes back to just displaying "Ready" and never plays. This happens on multiple sites. I get no error messages. Any suggestions? Thanks. I don't know if this helps, but I am on my Linux machine right now running Firefox2. And that link doesn't play correctly here either. As the video only shows up as large colored blocks. And the audio sounds like it is playing parts for a second or two and then jumps way ahead. And it only plays for a few more seconds and it is over. Plays fine here (on Windows XP, WMP 7.) Neither you nor OP indicated the specs of your PCs or type of Internet connection you have. Not enough RAM, a slow processor, or a slow dial-up connection would surely affect whether or not the video plays properly. Plus your symptoms are different (it does play for you, just not smoothly). If (either of) you play(s) this cached browser file in your TIF directory: 41793244-4077-4253-b74c-969caf240ab5.wmv what happens? (I suspect OP doesn't even have this file.) Hi Daave. Thanks for your reply. I don't think hardware or bandwidth resources are the issue for either of my machines. They both have a minumum of T1 internet line, 1.5gb ram, and P4 2.0ghz processor. You are correct that I do not have the 41793244-4077-4253-b74c-969caf240ab5.wmv file in my temp internet files. In that case, I definitely agree with PA Bear; you would do better he microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player |
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