Re: Cannot play/stream wvx with WMP10



Hi Paul,

A lot of people are experiencing the same problem you are.

I, too, also had to switch to RealPlayer on the BBC World Service site
(normally I use WMP) because WMP all of the sudden, somewhere between
Wednesday and Thursday, decided not to work. I think, for the time
being, all we can do it hope that Microsoft does something about it as
it looks, at least to me, like the cause of this problem is its media
player.

Sterling

Paul W wrote:
Hi all.

My brother cannot stream the link below on one of his computers, the other
machine is fine as are all of my own PC's.

http://streamos.wbr.com/wmedia/wbr/markknopfler/060706/mknopfler_emmylou-harris-epk_220.wvx

The error that XP Home SP2 (all updates installed) is

"C00D11BB: Cannot play the file
Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is
either not supported by the Player or not supported by the server that is
hosting the content.

If you encountered this error by clicking a link on a Web page, the link
might not be valid.

If you encountered this error by typing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in
the Open URL dialog box, try opening the file by using a different transport
protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")."




Both machines are connected to the same router & ISP, both run same firewall
(McAfee) and everything I can see that is obvious appears to be the same.
Realplayer is also loaded purely because it is required to play streaming
audio from the BBC website.

Can anyone suggest what I might need to look at to resolve this problem
please.

Regards,

Paul

.



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