OK, I went to Tools: Options: Devices: Speakers and guess what?

It shows "speakers" but when I go to "properties" there is NOTHING listed in
the "Audio device to use:" drop-down box.

I think we're getting somewhere but now what?

Any thoughts?


"zachd [ms]" wrote:

>
> Uninstalling and reinstalling is never the best plan - the software was
> written to be installed on top of the existing install, so any uninstall
> first is highly counterproductive. [I wrote the code, so anybody else
> suggesting otherwise is indeed wrong.]
>
> What exact error code number did you get?
> http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#isolate
>
> From that little information, I'd suspect the wrong output selected under
> WMP's Tools:Optionsevices:Speakers... ?
>
> --
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> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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>
> "James W." <JamesW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CCBF4151-4DB2-448B-91E1-1B04E6DB5E7F@microsoft.com...
> >I have Window XP and Media Player 10.
> >
> > Media Player was working beautifully up until it suddenly stopped playing
> > any kind of media content (local MP3 files, streamed audio, local MPG
> > video,
> > etc.)
> >
> > It starts by showing "Opening Media" when I attempt to play local media or
> > "Connecting to Media" when I attempt to play streamed media and in a few
> > seconds I get the following error:
> >
> > "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support
> > the
> > file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
> > file."
> >
> > I have not deleted any codecs and have used several utilities to check and
> > verify that the codecs exist (they do).
> >
> > I have unintalled and reinstalled Media Player twice (both times
> > downloaded
> > directly from Micrsoft).
> >
> > I can't seem to find a solution to this anywhere. Your help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > James.
> >
> >
>
>
>