RE: WMP streaming problem

Joel,

I had the same problem.

I don't know if it will work for you but give it a go anyway.

I was trying 2 x different streams, one would work and the other mute...i
could tell it was playing in the background . .

OPEN > TOOLS > OPTIONS > DEVICES > SPEAKERS

Ensure your sound card is listed. Mine said Use default soundcard.

I changed it to my Sound blaster Applied changed. restarted WMP and it worked.

NOTE ** I have 2 x sound cards.

one onboard and the other I have since purchased.

Let me know how it goes..

regards

Daz



"Joel Dorfan" wrote:

Myself and many others have reported problems to do with streaming and WMP.
I have tried all of the suggestions mentioned by RE Fernandez to do with
emptying the temp. folders, changing network settings etc. I have tried wmp
10 and wmp 11. Same problems.

for example

I can play streaming content from Sky news e.g..
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-toddler_water,00.html

but cant from CNN news e.g..

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/08/02/von.gibson.cell.phone.video.tmz

both make use of WMP.

With CNN, the video window pops up, it says that it is about to play the
stream but it never loads and after a few seconds it then tries to play the
next one in the list.

I removed WMP11 and the system defaulted back to WMP10, I ticked WMP in the
add/remove section to enable the icon to appear on the desktop.

I have a similar setup on my home and PC and most times the CNN video does
play although from time to time I also have trouble there.

Both systems are XP Pro with ADSL connectivity to the web.

I am now at my wits end!

PLEASE can someone in the know try and work out why we are having this
selective problem with WMP?

Joel






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