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

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The reason I know the file associations are correct is if I try to stream the
audio file, it does start WMP 11 with an error message saying it's unable to
play the file. If the association wasn't correct I assume WMP would not be
launched a all. Yes, if I save the .asx file to disk and then open it with
WMP 11, it does play.

Try *any* audio link on cdconnection.com, choose your favorite music and
then save the target file if you want to examine the .asx file. No matter
what file I try to stream, the results are the same.

Here's the contents of one I have saved to disk:

<ASX Version="3.0"><ENTRY><REF
HREF="mms://sg5.allmusic.com/027wma_28/s131/s13158/s1315886/s131588602hb6je.wma"/></ENTRY></ASX>

I am also a software developer who has to provide client support at times.
I know the difficulties of seeing exactly what the client is seeing and
appreciate them. I also know giving my clients excess technical information
on what's going on is probably making their eyes glaze over. :) I still
can't make much sense of your previous post. My comments were meant to be
tongue-in-cheek, I do appreciate your help. :)

Greg



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


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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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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"Greg" <Greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

--
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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"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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