Re: Help with error message 80040241

From: Chris Lanier [MVP] (cal2002a_at_hotmail.NOSPAM.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:13:37 -0500

Can't say that happens for me, they all seem to work fine. The only thing I
see suggested by others is to reinstall DirectX on that system. You may
also try just reinstalling WMP 9 too. 

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Chris Lanier
Microsoft MVP - Digital Media
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"Argentine Music" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D422368D-29B5-4869-A191-CABB2A8D0600@microsoft.com...
>
>      Apparently, the linking of the system works differently. To access
the mnentioned page directly, use
http://home.planet.nl/~mutsc002/ra-jav.htm. I still very much appreciate
your help.
> Meanwhile, I have tried to access the WMF file from another computer
(running XP Prof), and there it works without any problem.
>
>      ----- Chris Lanier [MVP] wrote: -----
>
>      That page gives me a 404 error.
>
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>      "Argentine Music" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>      news:90DB57F2-D0CA-45FA-B73F-9E0FAADC0070@microsoft.com...
>      > I've encountered error message 80040241 while using Windows Media
Player
>      (version WMP9, just updated).  The files I tried to play are music
files
>      (*.WMA) at www.argentijnsemuziek.info/ra-jav.htm which is a website I
>      produce myself. They used to play in WMP without any problem in the
past.
>      The files were not changed, so no codec changes will have been made.
I
>      already had recently acquired this error message using my previous
version
>      on WMP. I was asked to update, so I updated to WMP9 now, still
getting this
>      same error message.
>      >> I started moving the Media files on this site from
Real-Audio-format to
>      WMA-format, because of the better availability of WMP by my
>      website-visitors, but now it apparently does not work anymore. I
cannot even
>      listen to my own files anymore.
>      >> Additonal information: I am using XP-Home SP1 in a Dutch version.
I
>      downloaded one of the files to a directory at my computer and tried
to pley
>      it using mplayer2.exe and it worked.
>      >> How can I solve this problem???
>      >

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