Help with windows media player

danicd88

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Hello! I'm having some trouble with Windows Media Player. It won't play music videos that come up on webpages. For instance, AOL has their video page, and I cannot play any of them. I also can't play any audio files, such as the audio clips available at amazon.com. I've tried downloading the installer and reinstalling it, and that hasn't seemed to do anything. Please help! :)

~Christine
 
what message pops up when it does that? can you record it down?

and is it playing it integrated in the browser? or is it calling up windows media to play it?
 
It's playing it in the browser. In the case of amazon.com, they bring up a new browser window to open windows media player in, but it's still in a web browser. The error I get is:

Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name might not be correct, the server might not be available, or your proxy settings might not be correct.



When I click on "More Information", it brings up this:

C00D1198: Cannot connect to the server
Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server hosting the content that you want to play. You might encounter this error message for one of the following reasons:

The name of the server hosting the content is not valid. If you typed a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address in the Open URL dialog box, verify that the file name is spelled correctly and that the path to the file is correct, and then try again. If you clicked a link on a Web page, the link might not be valid.
The server is not available (for example, the server is busy or not online). Try again later.
The proxy server settings for Windows Media Player are not configured properly. Verify that your proxy server settings are correct.
To verify your proxy server settings
On the Tools menu, click Options, click the Network tab, and then verify your settings in the Streaming proxy settings area.
Note

If you do not know what your proxy server settings should be, on the Network tab, select a protocol, click Configure, and then select Autodetect proxy settings or Use proxy settings of the Web browser (available for HTTP protocol only).
Error ID = 0xC00D1198, Condition ID = 0x00000000


I went through the proxy thing like they said, and it didn't seem to do anything.
 
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