Re: Problem with Media Player

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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
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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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