Re: Lost Live Video Streaming

If you create a new User Account on that PC and login to it, does WMP
work in the new account ? That could finger some sort of user account
permissions problem.

Also - this PC is definitely your own and not under the control of a
corporate IT department ?

They can lock down streaming settings permissions through a process
called "group policy" which would have the same apparent effect of
locking you out from changing those.

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:32:01 -0700, bunclodyboy
<bunclodyboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Neil, I can safely say that I have tried all of the suggestions with no
success. I note that under networks the Streaming Proxy settings box is empty
and I seem to be unable to write anything in it. Any idea what else I can
try. I have tried rolling back to an earlier version bt it recognises version
11 and stops the downloa.



"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

OK so the proxy settings are hosed (this is often the corrupted file I
mentioned)

See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#networktab for details of how to
repair that, then re-try playing the streams - the first thing to try
would be the suggestion :

"David says that on his system his "wmsdkns.xml" file (under
c:\documents and settings\%USER%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows Media\10.0) was corrupted, and that deleting
that got his system working. "

That would be 11.0 or whatever version you're on now.

Additionally if that still isn't working, Mike Poz posted this a few
years ago :
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=29803844&threadid=29803811

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 03:20:01 -0700, bunclodyboy
<bunclodyboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Neil

You wrote You should be able to see 3 checkboxes for RTSP/UDP, RTSP/TCP and
HTTP, and they should all be checked. Also in the Streaming Proxy
Settings, HTTP and RTSP may be set to Browser or None.

Well the three check boxes are all checked. The "Streaming Proxy Settings"
box is completely empty. The "allow multicast streams" box is checked


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Sun, 31 May 2009 04:31:01 -0700, bunclodyboy
<bunclodyboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Up until a few days ago I have been watching a couple of live webcams without
any problems. Suddenly I am getting a blank screen and when I check for
errors I get this message "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because
the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL
dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or
"rtsp:"). I have checked everything that I can think of and all the settings
seem o.k. Can anyone think what I have done wrong?


Hmm. Go to any of the small dropdown menus below the WM tabs (for
example below Now Playing). Click More Options, then Network.

You should be able to see 3 checkboxes for RTSP/UDP, RTSP/TCP and
HTTP, and they should all be checked. Also in the Streaming Proxy
Settings, HTTP and RTSP may be set to Browser or None.

My preference is for None (unless you're inside a corporate IT network
- are you ? - it's safe to set to None) - in that case, click e.g.
HTTP then the Configure button and set to None to see if that helps.

If any of those settings are greyed out, post again as there's a WMP
file which sometimes becomes damaged and can be deleted and recreated.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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