10.31.06

Warning: Windows Media Player 11

Posted in Software at 7:58 pm by LeisureGuy

I just installed Windows Media Player 11. Wish I hadn’t. According to their on-line help, it will play videos with this format:

mms://server/filename (for example, a file with a .wma, .wmv, .asf, or .mp3 extension)

But, based on my own experience, it will not play this particular video:

mms://mgs.mgnetwork.com/wsls/video/allenscuffle.wmv

I have no idea what the problem is, but Microsoft is willing to fix it for a minimum charge of $35. You can probably play it if you haven’t installed Windows Media Player 11. The link is on this page.

UPDATE: Well, I used CCleaner to uninstall Windows Media Player 11, which rolled me back to WMP 10. That doesn’t play it either: same problem. So I guess I may as well upgrade to WMP 11 after all.

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9 Comments »

  1. Ray said,

    1 December 2006 at 8:36 pm

    You might want to think again about installing version 11. It will force you to automatically update unless you circumvent via regedit (microsoft has directions for new key and command). It will also start two services: wmiprvse and wmpnscfg. The former can be disabled but I have not found a way to disable the latter, via msconfig, regedit, or component services. I just cannot abide with something that forces my computer to accept actions I do not want. I have found no info on the net so far as to a solution to this problem.

  2. Francisco said,

    18 December 2006 at 9:39 am

    The only way I found to play these videos is to install
    http://download.baofeng.com/BaoFeng.exe

    and select it to play MMS protocol related videos.

  3. Dmitry said,

    30 December 2006 at 5:36 pm

    Had the same problem.

    After couple of hours of playing with it found that It actually plays mms.

    All you need to do - in the URI change mms:// to http:// and it will play mms content just fine.

  4. Jackie said,

    8 January 2007 at 11:03 am

    Changing to http will not play if you do not have your web server pointed to the same root as your streaming server, so Dmitry’s trick won’t work on all servers (if many at all)

  5. Anthony TSANG said,

    9 January 2007 at 11:26 pm

    I got the same problem. When I was using WMP 9, I could still play the following link.

    mms://tv.icac.org.hk/webchan/100/drama/1989/d890101ne.wmv

    The WMP 9 could connect to MMS (1755) port for streaming.

    However, once I upgrade to WMP 11, I cannot play the link any more. The WMP 11 will use HTTP (80) port only, but not the 1755 port to connect the MMS link!

    Anyone knows how to fix it?

  6. Eby said,

    12 January 2007 at 1:30 pm

    I believe the only way to fix it is to fix it on the server end to use rtsp or similar and on port 80. We got lucky that helix will stream the same file on that url so we only need to figure out how to change the asx files it produces. As for playing you will likely need to find a different player.

    Microsoft posted that it is no longer supported here (chart on bottom):

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/netprokit.aspx

  7. nick said,

    27 May 2007 at 2:16 pm

    i think you just got to use media player classic not window media player 11 for mss

  8. Joao said,

    30 January 2008 at 4:01 am

    I just set up the HW acceleration to FULL and I could solve this problem…

    HTHs

    Joao

  9. N said,

    23 February 2008 at 8:07 am

    works fine for me. as someone said before me perhaps you need to update…

    I’m on Windows Vista Ultimate using WMP 11. I updated the CODEC’s and it hasn’t been broken. Of course I also have Hauppauge video card used for my cable line. So…. shrug. Try updating CODEC’s.

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