Re: Windows Media Player cannot connect when running as IE plug-in

The Windows firewall has been turned off. I was suspicious of Zone Alarm,
but it doesn't appear to be the problem because I have another similarly
configured PC with Zone Alarm and I'm not having any problems there. It is
definitely something unique to running WMP inside a web browser. After the
WMP plug-in times out, I can copy the URL of the video file it was trying to
play from the WMP properties window, start a full version of WMP, and play
the video just fine. That's my workaround at this point. At some point, I
might re-install IE or install FireFox and see if it happens there.

Thanks for the suggestion.

"Turkbear" wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:43:01 -0700, Paul A <Paul A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Windows Media Player 9 (and 10) does not display streaming video when running
> >inside IE. It displays the status message "Connecting to Media..." and then
> >nothing happens for a minute or so and eventually it times out and goes back
> >to Ready. Viewing streaming video when running Media Player outside of IE
> >works fine.
> >
> >I've tried:
> >- downgrading from Windows Media Player 10 to 9
> >- disabling my Zone Alarm firewall
> >- disabling pop-up blocking
> >- enabling cookies
> >- changed my Windows Media Player streaming proxy settings from
> >"use proxy settings of web browser" to "do not use proxy server" (I do not
> >have a proxy server)
> >
> >I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and am current on all patches. It used to
> >work but sometime after upgrading to SP2 it stopped working, although I can't
> >say for sure it was related to the XP2 upgrade. Viewing streaming video in
> >Real Player works fine. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> In addition to disabling the ZoneAlarm firewall( or just allowing WMP to bypass it) bewsure the SP2 firewall/secruity
> settings are not being used..One firewall is enough, 2 can cause problems..
>
>
>
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