Re: Problem with Media Player

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Gawd this is a pain !

OK well there are still several options to try that might achieve the
desired result :

The first is to turn off overlays, according to this page
http://www.tricerasoft.com/video_software/swiftelite_support.html

So you'd need to open media player standalone, then go to Tools ->
Options -> Performance and click the Advanced button. Write down the
checkbox names and which ones are checked.

Uncheck anything that looks like "overlay", OK out of that, then close
the player and try again. If it doesn't work, set the settings back to
what they were before you unchecked the boxes.

A further avenue to explore was suggested by ZachD who knows all about
this sort of oddity : On your system there's likely to be an old file
leftover from Win98 called "ivivideo.ax". It's a display filter and
might cause the ActiveMovie to popup. You need to "unregister" it with
your system, so the steps are :

1) Open Explorer, press Ctrl+F to "Find File"
2) Scan all disks for "ivivideo.ax"
3) If it's present :

4) Go to Start-> Run menu again, type in CMD
5) into the MSDOS box, type in

regsvr32 /u PATH_TO_IVIVIDEO\ivivideo.ax

Replace PATH_TO_IVIVIDEO with whichever directory you find the
ivivideo.ax file. For example if it's listed in C:\Windows\System32

regsvr32 /u C:\Windows\System32\ivivideo.ax

That should all be typed on one line. Now press enter, and assuming no
error messages, try (yet again) to access the online video.

Sorry it's such a pain to get this fixed, obviously without sitting at
your computer I have to take some educated guesses at what might be
there, leftover from the XP upgrade !

HTH
Cheers - Neil


On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:29:38 GMT, "Hubert Jr"
<hpottersprint@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You're right Neil. I did upgrade from Win98 ME many, many moons ago.
>
> Followed your instructions - fired up Win Media Player, when into
>preferences/options and checked the boxes for wmv and wma file association.
>
> Next I fired up dmxdiag and everything and I mean everything checked out
>ok. It is the 9.0c version.
>
> Rebooted and still get that same Active Movie Window when I fire up a web
>page which need win media player to show a video.
>
> Anymore ideas? I'm really stuck on this one...Thanks for you help so
>far........
> "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:3u71i15ehenjl0v8c9f10m1k9oht5laj6b@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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