Re: MPlayer 9.0 Buffers WAV Downloads

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From: zachd [ms] (zachd_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 02:03:21 -0800

The way WMP plays WAV files works fine... there'd have to be something
special about the URL to fail, for progressive download support was put in
~8 years ago or so, and this is the first report I've heard of it failing.
:)

There's no easy way to tell WMP to do that, no.

-Zach 

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"Jory" <jory234@yahoo.ca> wrote in message 
news:63f578a5.0402040920.63fb8647@posting.google.com...
> In downloading a WAV audio file, windows media player is trying play
> the WAV file as a stream.  Since WAV audio files aren't streaming
> compatible, media player is throwing an error saying that the file is
> corrupt and it doesn't know how to play the file.  If I manually
> download the file and save it disk, it plays back fine in media player
> so the file isn't corrupt.  Also, RealAudio and QuickTime recognize
> that the WAV file needs to be downloaded before playing back so they
> work fine.
>
> For convenience, I'd still like media player to automatically play the
> WAV file, so, is there a way to tell MP 9.0 to download the whole WAV
> file before starting to play it?
>
> Jory

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