[MaverickSidewinder]

Ok, I go to this site which has tutorials on music and other stuff, and it plays wmv files (with a windows media player window embedded in the site.) I never had any problems with this, but now, when I click play, it says: "connecting to media" (or something like that) and then says: Ready, and just stops. Before, it would say "connecting to media" and then buffer. I tried going to other sites and seeing if it was a server problem but it isn't, any file played with windows media player embedded doesn't work.

I tried playing around with the settings in windows media player but couldn't find anything.

p.s. I also have another annoying problem, sometimes everything is purple and i have to turn off video acceleration...why does this continuously happen?

I am running windows xp media center edition with nvidia 7900 gs if that helps. (dual core processor aswell)

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IE (which version) or another browser?

[piper]

IE (which version) or another browser?

[MaverickSidewinder]

Mozilla Firefox.

The strange thing is that it used to work perfectly, but now it doesn't

[piper]

Do you have a firewall active? Windows XP or another? If another, have there been any updates to the software recently?

What version of Windows Media Player do you have?

[piper]

According to Mozilla's site, Windows MC edition doesn't come with the WMP plugins. Please see http://kb.mozillazin...ws_Media_Player for troubleshooting help. Have you already gone through these procedures?

[MaverickSidewinder]

I tried the following:

- I tried installing the hotfix
- I tried re-installing wmp

I'll try the other solutions later...but I doubt they will work...How can it just stop working???

[piper]

If your current setup has worked previously, then my guess would be an update to either Windows, the firewall (if you have a 3rd party), or Firefox.

[MaverickSidewinder]

I have the latest firefox, no firewall and have updated windows.

thanks for your help though

[piper]

What version of WMP do you have on your computer?

[MaverickSidewinder]

Windows Media Player 11

[MaverickSidewinder]

Still having this problem...anyone can help me?

[happyrock]

have you tried system restore yet...

[MaverickSidewinder]

Fixed, i went to Microsoft Update and found an optional update for media center / media player 11, installed it and now everything works fine (for now)

thanks for all the help guys