Re: WMP11 no longer streams .asx and .asf files

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Right, but if you told me *exactly* what you were trying to play, that would help me *exactly* try what you're trying, this ensuring better accuracy of my testing. =)

If you right-click Save As one of those ASX's to your hard drive and open up that ASX in the player directly, does it work then?

I'm not attempting to be on TV, just attempting to point out important technical considerations which you had *potentially* glossed over with this comment: "The file associations are correct". It is nearly impossible for anyone to verify that without inspecting the registry directly (even if it "seems" right, other things can be going on) as the file association methods used can be intricate. I'm assuming that's ~not~ the problem going on here, but that's hard to definitively say.

I am here to help and am unfortunately ill-suited to do so as I work writing code for areas of my interest and thus suck at explaining to the lay more casual observer that appearances can be deceiving. I apologize. =\

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"Greg" <Greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B3E3E4B7-493E-47DF-9931-B10FEEA48999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As I already stated above, www.cdconnection.com. I cannot stream any of the
sample audio files.

Other than your querty about url, the rest of your answer/comment is
complete gibberish and I'm not impressed. If you are here to help (which I
appreciate) then help, don't write something that sounds like a politician on
the Sunday morning talk shows.

Greg

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


What's a sample URL that fails?

WinAMP and any other player that I'm aware of download the media file
differently than the player does. You cannot emulate what the player does
in any other fashion. You cannot emulate the file association methodology
used precisely here in any other way. It is indeed possible to "speed bump"
the association via incorrect third party associations so that an internal
file association check fails but the file association then correctly works
on a secondary path which may or may not result in a minor aberration which
can affect playback. But if you went through SPAD you ~should~ have
corrected that path if it was broken.

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Greg" <Greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The file associations are correct. If I try to stream something at
> cdconnection.com, WMP 11 starts and says it is unable to play the file.
> If I
> save the link as a file and open it with WMP 11 it works fine. If I
> access
> the same site with Google Chrome, it plays in WMP 11. I looked at the
> contents of the .asx file and it is syntactically correct. If I enter > the
> URL into WMP 11 it also plays fine.
>
> I also tried resetting the default program setting and that had no > effect
> on
> the problem.
>
> I have the latest Winamp Pro and, for now, have associated .asx and > .asf
> files with it so I can stream from IE 7.
>
> BTW, I tried the repair you suggesed to someone else, I think it was > scf
> /scannow and afterwards my system would boot to the desktop and the CPU
> was
> so tied up doing something I couldn't do anything at all. From the 21 > mb
> log
> file, it looks like it replaced two damaged files neither of which > appears
> to
> be related to WMP. Repeated reboots didn't fix the problem so I booted > to
> safe mode and rolled back to the previous day.
>
> Greg
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> This sounds like your file associations are wonky.
>>
>> What's a sample URL that fails?
>> What third party media players are installed?
>>
>> If you reset the file associations under Vista's Default Programs:Set
>> Program Access and Defaults control panel, does that fix this up?
>>
>> -- >> 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.
>> --
>




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