Media Player Classic can't play WWW radio??

[Shadow]

I tried to access www.irh.com using this MPC player and failed. Previously I
was able to access a button on this link to start an earlier version of WMP.
In my file associations, .asc and .asf are linked to MPC.

When MPC failed, I resurrected WMP v7.01, and the only way I could get the
link to run was input the URL of the button -
http://hotspotshawaii.com/awed/irh20k.asx into the program.

If I input the same link to MPC, I get the ms "Failed to render the file."
I believe this player is similar to an early version of WMP but maybe it was
pre-internet radio and can only handle files???
I'd like to get rid of WMP v7.01 and use something slimmer.

I also tried MPC on the BBC link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/wsscience_aod.shtml?ws_sia, and a few others,
which have real media files, and it always comes up with "Failed to render
the file."

Help appreciated.

TIA

S.

 

[Nil]

Shadow --

The best place to get an answer to your problem is directly from the author
of MPC, Gabest, on the MPC help forum.

Go here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281015


MPC does play internet radio. I've successfully played tons of stations with
it in all formats. But it does appear to have problems with certain
connections. I tried to run your 2 links on MPC 6.4.6.3, the latest release,
and neither worked. I then ran them both on WMP 6.4. The Hawaiian link
played perfectly. The BBC link would not play at all.

Give the forum a visit.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

[Sundog]

Thanks Nil for the suggestion. Will do as you say.

S.

 

[Peter Seiler]

Sundog - 16.09.2003 00:58 :

Thanks Nil for the suggestion. Will do as you say.

and please report the result. I use the "restricted" actual versin too.