IE no longer uses WMP for media...

[wayliff]

Hi

I am a bit puzzled by what happened with IE and even Firefox.
I installed IE8 three days ago...I opened IE8 and I was able to use google and some sites and no problems.

Yesterday, I tried to listen to radio by going to the WUSF site and IE said it could not display the web page and prompted for diagnosing connection problems.

I know there are not connectivity problems as I was just browsing the internet. So then I opened Firefox and tried the same thing - it started to stream the sound but not directly into WMP. Instead it did it within the browser and it had a message that said "loading video" or something very similar.

So something happened during the installation of IE8 that caused this.
I then decided to revert back to IE7 just in case this was an IE8 specific problem but that did not help.

Wondering if someone has experienced this and if so, have you been able to address it.

Thanks for any ideas or suggestions.

PS - I checked the IE add-ons and I see the WMP add-ons are enabled.

 

[Intexity]

i use jetaudio in place of wmp and have never been happier. could give it a shot.

 

[cjbee]

Do you have VLC Player installed by any chance?

The reason I ask is because I was having the same problem as you...all media links within IE8 gave me the "Page not found" blahblah error.

After a little Googling, I found that apparently VLC causes some file handling confusion...to fix it, reinstall VLC and remove all of it's file associations during setup. Worked like a charm for me.

If you don't have VLC, try reinstalling any other media player software you have on the machine.

 

[wayliff]

I do - i had not thought of that - i will try it. Thanks.

 

[wayliff]

Originally posted by: cjbee
Do you have VLC Player installed by any chance?

The reason I ask is because I was having the same problem as you...all media links within IE8 gave me the "Page not found" blahblah error.

After a little Googling, I found that apparently VLC causes some file handling confusion...to fix it, reinstall VLC and remove all of it's file associations during setup. Worked like a charm for me.

If you don't have VLC, try reinstalling any other media player software you have on the machine.

That was it! Thanks...
I somehow overlooked other media players as the possible source the issue since the only thing I had done very recently was install IE8.

Ok - finally fixed it...

Another thing I tried before dealing with VLC media player was to reset WMP11.
I did that by removing the two following registry nodes.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer

That pretty much forced WMP to forget everything and run as if it was the first time...that did not help but it might help someone else with another issue.

Thanks for anyone who gave it a thought...