Re: Windows Media Player does not work on Internet

That is right. All I was doing was responding back. I started this
discussion back in October. I have the same problem that "jgq" has. Right
now it is with AT&T. I can't get my windows media player to play the
ringtones before I purchase them. Also I am still having problems getting it
to play on certain web sites like we have already discussed.

"jgq" wrote:

Basically all that tha10 has described is the same thing I'm experiencing. I
can play the video with wmv at the end and it opens up the windows media
player. But I have not found one website in which the embedded player works
ever since I bought this computer.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


Can you play
http://www.fishermansnet.com/ShirleyOremland/Videos/JourneyOfLove.wmv
directly in WMP?

You jumped into somebody else's thread, near as I can tell, so I don't have
any good context for what you're talking about. =\

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"jgq" <jgq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Gateway also with Windows Vista Premium and cannot play the
embedded
player on websites and it is my default player.
http://fishermansnet.com/ShirleyOremland/Videos/JourneyOfLove.html doesn't
work and other sites don't work either. I have tried to find many
solutions
to the problem but cannot find any.

"tha10" wrote:

Thanks so much for your help. I will notify them about their problem.
If
they don't fix it, it won't me any loss to me. I just won't go to that
web
site. Again, thanks for clearing this up for me.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


You have the right plug-in since WMP is showing up. =)

Cool - if it's just this web site, it's often very easy to look up a
contact
on the site and tell them that their MIME type is misconfigured, point
them
to the MSDN article here about how to fix it, and then voila, it might
work.
=\

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"tha10" <tha10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This has helped me a lot because it has always happened on this web
site.
I
contacted them about it and they told me it was a Vista problem. My
media
player works fine until I go to that web site. The only other
players
installed is Real Player and Itunes. Media Player is my default
player.
I'm
with you I think it is their web site and not my media player since
it is
working okay on other sites. If you have any other suggestions,
please
let
me know. I did talk to a Vista Rep at Circuit City today and he said
it
sounded like a plug in problem, maybe one is missing. I checked the
plug
in
section on my Media Player and everything seems to be okay there, I
guess,
since I don't really know what plug ins are. I don't really know
what
would
be missing anyway. As you can tell, I don't know a lot about the
Media
Player, except it is suppose to work. Other than this web site, I
don't
think I am having any other problems. Again thanks. If I have
further
problems, I will let you know. I hope you understood what I was
trying to
say in this message.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


That's interesting - that's Error: Moniker not available --
MK_E_UNAVAILABLE
.. It's *relatively* isolated as an error case, but that's still a
lot
of
code to look through.

Hm, the site is actually technically broken as is since it's sending
down
text/plain for the MIME type rather than the correct
video/x-ms-wmv --
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#mime
covers how to fix that. If you like this site, you might want to
ask
them
to fix that.

Does this happen for you on other sites? A different site would be
slightly
more interesting in that misconfigured MIME types are potentially
their
own
source of error.

At what time did this first occur - that is, did it ever work? I
don't
have
a repro of this issue so I'm working blind here. Excuse my
abnormally
high
stupidity. =)

Are any third party players installed?
Is networking in Internet Explorer working normally otherwise?
Does the Media Guide in Windows Media Player work?

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"tha10" <tha10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here is the URL that the error takes me to:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/webhelp/default.aspx?&mpver=11.0.6000.6344&id=C00D11B1&contextid=230&originalid=800401E3

Everything on that page I have tried. Still does not work.
Thanks for getting back with me on this. I have been looking back
on
some
other discussions on this same problem. No one so far has a
solution
especially since this is Vista we are talking about.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


No, changing the URL would fail miserably to do anything. I'm
generally
not
available most hours, so I'll respond back when I get a chance.

Click Web Help on that error dialog - what *URL* does it take you
to?
That's probably the next key here.

Gateway probably doesn't have the super precise expertise useful
here.
Plus
remote trouble-shooting is pretty brutally hard.

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"tha10" <tha10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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With the URL listed as you have it with wmv on the end of it
instead
of
html,
it plays. So do I need to change the html to wmv each time I
go to
a
web
site to play something?
Thanks

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


Does playing:

http://www.fishermansnet.com/ShirleyOremland/Videos/JourneyOfLove.wmv
directly work?

On the Fisherman site, if you click on the embedded WMP and
then
right-click
on it, do you get any Error Details?

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"tha10" <tha10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have Windows Media Player 11 for Vista Premium. Here is an
example
of
a
web page that it will not play:
http://fishermansnet.com/ShirleyOremland/Videos/JourneyOfLove.html
It will not play on any web sites that uses any version of
Media
Player.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:01:04 -0700, tha10
<tha10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have Windows Vista Premium. A new Gateway computer. I
cannot
get
the
Media Player to work on web sites to play music or videos.
It
is
my
default
player. I contacted Gateway and they could not help me.
This
only
happens
when Media Player is being used on web sites. I click to
play
on
the
web
page but nothing happens. No error messages or anything.
I
have
all
firewalls turned off on the media player. Can anyone help
me
or
tell
me
how
to solve this problem? It works fine when I play a CD or
a
DVD.


What is a typical, exact web page address to reproduce the
problem
?

A lot of older websites still use addresses for the video
location
which begin with "mms://" but since version 9 of media
player,
this
playback type has been deprecated, and it was removed in
media
player
11.

Cheers - Neil
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