Re: media player 11 with window vista

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Gotcha.

Yeah, this should be the partial pathing they use. If you really want to watch those videos:
a: download the ASX file - save it to disk. Open it up in notepad.exe or other text editor. Fix all the URLs (everything using ".." is what is broken).
b: ask the site manager nicely to not use partial pathing - it's just generally a bad plan. =)

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"allure" <allure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D24A0CB1-EB2E-424C-B16C-E5148241EA89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
no it happens on this site only

but then again what puzzles me is that on my window xp wmp11 i can watch
these vedios with no problem ..but on the vista wmp11 i am having this problem

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


That site is producing bad ASX files that use partial path references. This
is broken and will fail.

Does it happen for other sites?

Also, if you like that site, you should probably advise them to fix up their
ASX files to not use partial references: those are not fully supportable. =\

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"allure" <allure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2F1C5DEF-E327-4EB3-8D82-605BF4FB7EDB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> this is the URL
>
> http://www.future.com.lb/Default.aspx?page=video&prog_id=50
>
> now about any new codec no nothing new i had alway the k-lite codec > pack
> 3.9
> media player played usually perfectly fine with me except now when i > tried
> to
> go to the above link to play the vedios it askd me to save it and the > file
> type is an (asx) which should play with media player... now when i save > it
> and try to open it it says>>>>Windows Media Player cannot play the > file.
> The
> Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec > that
> was used to compress the file. so i dont know if its the issue with > the
> media player in vista that is different from the one of the xp in
> accordance
> to the codec that was used to compress the file.
>
> and that is what i dont understand cause i have on my other computer
> window
> xp and when i go to the same URL and want to watch the vedio i have no
> problem at all.
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> What's a URL that shows this problem for you?
>>
>> ^-- This is the easiest question to answer for starters. =)
>>
>> As regards third party players, I'm curious if you have installed any >> new
>> players or codecs upon this system that do not normally come with >> Vista.
>> Those can accidentally reset some key player settings.
>>
>> -- >> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>> "allure" <allure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:630ED9B7-4CB1-4965-8EB8-668FDED29FFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > zachd sorry but i didnt get what u mean in>>> What third party >> > players
>> > are
>> >> installed?
>> >
>> >
>> > "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> This is probably a file association issue. What third party >> >> players
>> >> are
>> >> installed?
>> >>
>> >> What's a URL that shows this problem for you?
>> >>
>> >> -- >> >> Speaking for myself only.
>> >> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> >> rights.
>> >> --
>> >> "allure" <allure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:81D2D4D0-88AC-4731-A4AB-A76AE8D05E72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > when i try to play a video media player on vista from a site it >> >> > asks
>> >> > me
>> >> > to
>> >> > save it first,the file type is
>> >> > (Windows Media Audio/Video playlist (.asx)
>> >> > and if i do save it and then try to play it it gives me this msg
>> >> > >>>Windows
>> >> > Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support >> >> > the
>> >> > file
>> >> > type
>> >> > or might not support the codec that was used to compress the >> >> > file.
>> >> >
>> >> > now when I play the same file from the same site on window xp >> >> > there
>> >> > is
>> >> > no
>> >> > problem and it plays directly without asking me to save it
>> >> > my question is >>is there a setting i should do or change with >> >> > vista
>> >> > media
>> >> > player?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>




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