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Unkelone - 29 Aug 2007 04:10 GMT

I recently got Windows Vista along with Windows Media Player 11. I've been
having problems trying to watch internet videos. Before on the old XP, I
would just click on the video link which would open up my windows media
player and begin playing the video. However now on the Vista, when I try to
click on a video link Explorer goes to that Internet Explorer cannot display
the wepage screen. This happens to me on all video links. This here is a
link to the kind of video links that I am talking about
http://www.kesser.org/video/mpeg.html
So if anyone can offer up some help for me, it would be much appreciated,
cause as of right now, I can't watch anything off of the web. Thanks for
your time.

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Adam Albright - 29 Aug 2007 04:24 GMT

>I recently got Windows Vista along with Windows Media Player 11. I've been
>having problems trying to watch internet videos. Before on the old XP, I
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>cause as of right now, I can't watch anything off of the web. Thanks for
>your time.

How long did you wait? I visited the site above and clicked on the
first video. It spawned Media Player and 45 seconds went by before it
finally started to play. I have broadband, about 4 Mbps.

Just curious, I tried their Real Media link and the same file started
to play in under 8 seconds but at about half the frame size. If you
don't have it already get a copy of the free Real Media player. If you
like that site you may want to drop them a note and suggest they
encode their vids in WMV format. They are much smaller and generally
better quality.

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Unkelone - 29 Aug 2007 07:10 GMT

Thank you for your response. Well the problem is that Windows Media Player
is not spawning at all for me. So like when I click on the video, it just
takes me to the error page of Internet Explorer can not display the web page.
I have cable internet and never had a problem with load times in the past
with XP. Like I said my problem is that Windows Media Player doesn't pop up,
it doesn't do anything. This was just a random website that I grabbed just
to show an example of what I can't see.

> How long did you wait? I visited the site above and clicked on the
> first video. It spawned Media Player and 45 seconds went by before it
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> encode their vids in WMV format. They are much smaller and generally
> better quality.

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jason - 29 Aug 2007 22:42 GMT

try installing divx codecs there free,i could not play some internet
vids,installed div x now it seems to play everything.jay.

> Thank you for your response. Well the problem is that Windows Media Player
> is not spawning at all for me. So like when I click on the video, it just
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> > encode their vids in WMV format. They are much smaller and generally
> > better quality.

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