HTML WMP won't work

[eal237]

I am unable to connect to internet radio stations that
use an embedded WMP through internet explorer. Not
the stand alone WMP with Radio Tuner, but rather the
player that pops up in a small Internet Explorer window
after clicking on a link to play while using I.E. Other internet
players such as Flash work. Its not a firewall/anti-virus issue,
I disabled both and still no luck. I looked into "manage add ons"
in I. E., and there seems to be no problem with WMP.dll.
so it doesn't seem to be a plug in issue either. I've tried at
least 25 stations that use WMP and none work. The status
goes straight to "ready". My O.S is Vista Home Premium 64 bit.
If anyone had any ideas on this, that would really be great.

[Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]]

What about the WMA stations listed on www.somafm.com ?

You might also be trying a range of shoutcast services. That's not
natively supported in WMP, you'd benefit from the Orban AAC plugin for
that playback : http://www.orban.com/plugin/ (scroll halfway down for
the media player plugin)

Finally, you should have some 'error details' - when the player in the
web page says Ready, right-click the player window or playback
controls. If the 'Error Details' item is highlighted, click it and
write down the info provided there.

You might need to check Tools -> More Options -> Network in WMP11,
making sure both RTSP and HTTP are checked, and that the Proxy
settings for each of those are 'None' rather than 'Browser' or a
specific proxy location (double-click the proxy settings to open and
change the selection)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2010
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

[eal237]

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <ne...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for replying, Neil. The site Somafm.com caused
my browser to display a warning at the top, and the details
said something to the effect of the file being corrupted and
it wasn't a generic WMP error. It wanted me to download
a file, and it didn't seem like a good idea, I didn't recognize it.
The error details from one of the sites that I used to listen to
now states "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"
Clicking on "web help" it get the error C00D1199
I did as suggested for the network tab in options
of WMP and still no luck.

[Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:23:45 -0500, "eal237" <nom...@nomail.com> wrote:

>>> I am unable to connect to internet radio stations that
>>>use an embedded WMP through internet explorer. Not
>>>the stand alone WMP with Radio Tuner, but rather the
>>>player that pops up in a small Internet Explorer window
>>>after clicking on a link to play while using I.E. Other internet
>>>players such as Flash work. Its not a firewall/anti-virus issue,
>>>I disabled both and still no luck. I looked into "manage add ons"
>>>in I. E., and there seems to be no problem with WMP.dll.
>>>so it doesn't seem to be a plug in issue either. I've tried at
>>>least 25 stations that use WMP and none work. The status
>>>goes straight to "ready". My O.S is Vista Home Premium 64 bit.
>>>If anyone had any ideas on this, that would really be great.
>>
>> What about the WMA stations listed on www.somafm.com ?
>

>> Finally, you should have some 'error details' - when the player in the
>> web page says Ready, right-click the player window or playback
>> controls. If the 'Error Details' item is highlighted, click it and
>> write down the info provided there.
>>
>> You might need to check Tools -> More Options -> Network in WMP11,
>> making sure both RTSP and HTTP are checked, and that the Proxy
>> settings for each of those are 'None' rather than 'Browser' or a
>> specific proxy location (double-click the proxy settings to open and
>> change the selection)
>

>Thanks for replying, Neil. The site Somafm.com caused
>my browser to display a warning at the top, and the details

That would normally be IE telling you a plugin was required for that
page.

It's also possible the player is trying to poup the HTMLView they use
(or possibly some ads) which is the track listing that changes ever
few minutes when the station's playing.

It's intended to do that and is the expected behaviour.

SomaFM is basically listener supported but I wouldn't be surprised if
they're having to get new revenue streams somehow due to the tightness
of listeners (non-paying) and the recent 5x hike in royalties the
record companies demand for playing tracks from small stations.

Didn't you say previously, you'd disabled Flash and WMP plugins in the
browser ? The information bar would be likely to give you that
message.

>said something to the effect of the file being corrupted and
>it wasn't a generic WMP error. It wanted me to download
>a file, and it didn't seem like a good idea, I didn't recognize it.

There are several occasions you might see a file download - it's
absolutely right to be cautious, but *sometimes* these are legitimate
codec downloads from microsofts servers (that should look like a box
mentioning windows media codecs or similar)

> The error details from one of the sites that I used to listen to
>now states "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"
>Clicking on "web help" it get the error C00D1199
>I did as suggested for the network tab in options
>of WMP and still no luck.

So to avoid confusion with web page popups, this is the direct stream
location of the Groove Salad station :

http://streamer-dtc-aa05.somafm.com:80/stream/1018

Try pressing CTRL + U in the desktop media player, paste that into the
URL box and press <enter>

Do you hear anything at all, or still get the C00D1199 error ?

Chris Lanier http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/articles/14322.aspx
explains about why that error's hard to diagnose, so there may be
multiple steps needed to try to solve it.

There are several steps to check that. This is one discussion :
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/711907-solved-getting-error-c00d1199.html
which involves checks of the DRM system on Indivsite, the sound card
(checking if it's present and operating) and running 'sfc', the
system file checker to get backup copies of critical windows files.