Re: Problem with Media Player

Hi Neil: Yes this is a Gawd awful pain in the ***. I tried all your
recent suggestions to no avail. Any chances of you taking a quick visit to
Tucson, AZ? LOL

Don't know where we go from here. Maybe, just maybe someone will come
with with another suggestion.

Have a great weekend and thanks for all your assistance thus far.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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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