Windows Media Player And Live Streams

[Matty1992]

I try and play live radio streams and live video streams on other websites
and it just shows a white box with a red cross in. And some sites it says
windows media player cannot be found, when it is cleary installed. I am using
home premium and windows media player 11. Please help i have been searching
everywhere.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Is the player still functioning correctly for local playback and usage?

What is a specific site that you are having problems with?

What does this page say:
http://zachd.com/pss/detectwmp7.htm
? What software was added or removed before this problem started?

 

[Matty1992]

The page says Windows Media Player Not Installed

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Oh wow, I forgot that I had previously responded with the probable solution
way back on 2/14, but since you keep posting in new threads, you probably
missed that. I apologize: UseNet can be really hard to keep track of. =)

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How did you get into this state? When the files were deleted, that would
probably have broken things really effectively.

Can you System Restore back to before this horribleness?

If you look up "WMP11.assocfile.wma" on http://support.microsoft.com ,
there's a way to reregister the player on Vista there. Does that help the
WMP issue?

But the real key is: how did you get into this state? You could potentially
cobble yourself back together, but if chunks of your file system are
missing, you're kind of needing to do either a System Restore or an OS
reinstall. Anything short of that is just going to be bad patch-work, since
there's no rational way those files should have been *able* to disappear in
the first place. =\


What did you put on the system before you got into this state?

I have a tentative fix for what's been done to your system, but knowing what
happened first is critical. Had you installed SatelliteTVforPC to this
system?
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[Matty1992]

I cant system restore back further than 5 days. And no i cant remember
changing anything at the time it happened. I will wait till SP1.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

That probably won't help - that's an update to your working system. If
you're previously in a broken state, it wouldn't know what would be required
to fix that.

If you look up "WMP11.assocfile.wma" on http://support.microsoft.com ,
there's a way to reregister the player on Vista there. Does that help the
WMP issue?

 

[Matty1992]

Thank you Thanks You Thank You! It worked, all i did was regsvr32 wmp.dll
which is what i tried before but after restoring all the files back by doing,
scf/scannow or something it recovered all my files back. I reregistered it
and it worked im so so happy. After months of soloutions this one after
a few attempts works.

Thanks

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

That's great to hear. =)

If you follow the RegEdit steps in the KB article I mentioned, that should
fix up clicks from IE prompting to download instead of auto-opening in the
player.

Hopefully everything is working now. =)

Cheers,
-Zach

 

[Matty1992]

I only had the burn tab before in options now i have them all, so something
must of triggered it and i am now thinking its a defragg.

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Probably not: what you saw would have been representative of an invalid
registry setting.

It would actually be interesting to do a System Restore back before this
fix, Export the registry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT then, fix the problem again,
and then again Export the registry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and compare the
difference. It *sounds* like some variant of the SatelliteTVforPC 2006
problem, but -- it's hard to guess.

If you produce those registry exports and put them up on a file share I can
look at (or email me the ZIP, since you have my hotmail email address), I'll
take a look and see if there's anything interesting. =)

 

[Matty1992]

So what exactly do i have to do? what do i need to extract from the registery
editer?

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

Assuming you could get back into this state, if you opened up regedit.exe ,
clicked HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT , then clicked File and then Export, you would be
able to save out that initial state's important data set. Then if you fixed
the issue again, you could again Export out to some new file. I could
likely compare the two and perhaps provide some speculation as to how this
state was arrived at. Or you could do it yourself via "windiff" or other
basic text differential utility. =)