Re: Problem with Media Player

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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:09:55 GMT, "Hubert Jr"
<hpottersprint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Your suggestion about http//video.msn.com didn't work.
>
> However, hope this screen capture shows you what I see.....The Video
>should actually be appearing in the box labeled 'advertisement'

Ahh "ActiveMovie Window", that makes it a lot clearer ! It's a very
old media player left over from before windows media was installed
(maybe you upgraded your XP from windows 98 or similar)

I have a feeling ... from reading other threads that it's a file
association problem - that media player should have been listed as the
player for .wmv files (the video file sent from msnbc) and isn't.

Could you once again indulge me - open media player on its own, go to
the menu, choose Tools -> Options -> File Types

You should see most file types checked, in particular. make sure
"Windows Media Video File (wmv)" and "Windows Media Audio File (wma)"
checkboxes are checked.

If they aren't, do so, close the player and try again.

If they are, the next step I'd take (if it was me) would be to check
which version of DirectX you have. DirectX is the layer of the
operating system that handles video & audio display efficiently
(supposedly). Odd, seemingly unrelated things can happen if this is
screwed up or an old version.

It *should* be "version 9.0c" : To check this, go to the Start menu,
choose the Run item, and in the box type in

dxdiag

Then press enter. Run the dxdiag tool and the almost bottom line on
the window that pops up should read "DirectX 9.0c" followed by a
series of numbers.

If you ain't got the DirectX up to date, it's worth doing in any case,
you can grab it from here (the "DirectX 9.0c runtime link)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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