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    Media Player Won't Play MPEG from Web

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jerome10, Aug 16, 2007.

  1. Jerome10

    Jerome10 Notebook Geek

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    I did a few searches and came up empty.

    I have Vista Ultimate on my new T61, and with XP I could click a mpeg file from a website, it would open media player, stream it and play it as it was loading.

    On my T61, I now get a warning message and it tells me I can either save the mpeg to disk (where it then opens just fine with media player) or cancel.

    What is going on here? WMV works just fine, but MPEGs don't. Any suggestions or fixes out there?
     
    Jerome10, Aug 16, 2007
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    Jerome10 Notebook Geek

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    Nothing?! Please, anything :)
     
    Jerome10, Aug 17, 2007
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    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    What broswer are you using? You probably don't have the wmv plugin for it. If you are only able to not play mpegs thats a different problem but if its just that you can't play any video that requires wmv you have a plugin/codec problem which you need to download.
     
    The Forerunner, Aug 17, 2007
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