Hello,

I am having the same problem on 3 differnet Dell laptops in our office. The
Dell PC's are not having the problem (as strange as that sounds).

We've tried the same steps as below. We're running Windows XP SP2 with
Windows Media Player 10.

I have searched Google & Google Groups with many posts about the issue but
no resolution.

Thanks,

Ben

"Finbarr" wrote:

> I am unable to make streaming windows media (audio or video) work in embedded
> mode in IE6. When the option to launch the standalone player is available
> (e.g. at C-SPAN streaming media page), everything works fine, but when
> attempting to view video embedded in browser, I get only a black screen and
> the message "connecting to media".
>
> I have already done the following:-
> * verified JavaScript is enabled.
> * verified IE 6 is latest version
> * disabled firewalls
> * disabled Popup blockers
> * shut down other applications
> * re-installed WMP 10
> * downloaded all Windows Updates
> * repair install of Windows XP Home
>
> HELP!
>

Actually, Dell sometimes does weird things to their system config. =P

Does reregistering wmp.dll affect this at all? Run:
===
regsvr32 wmp.dll
===
to test that...

-Zach
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"Ben" <Ben@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2886D19E-5A74-401B-8850-20B225450C41@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am having the same problem on 3 differnet Dell laptops in our office.
> The
> Dell PC's are not having the problem (as strange as that sounds).
>
> We've tried the same steps as below. We're running Windows XP SP2 with
> Windows Media Player 10.
>
> I have searched Google & Google Groups with many posts about the issue but
> no resolution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> "Finbarr" wrote:
>
>> I am unable to make streaming windows media (audio or video) work in
>> embedded
>> mode in IE6. When the option to launch the standalone player is
>> available
>> (e.g. at C-SPAN streaming media page), everything works fine, but when
>> attempting to view video embedded in browser, I get only a black screen
>> and
>> the message "connecting to media".
>>
>> I have already done the following:-
>> * verified JavaScript is enabled.
>> * verified IE 6 is latest version
>> * disabled firewalls
>> * disabled Popup blockers
>> * shut down other applications
>> * re-installed WMP 10
>> * downloaded all Windows Updates
>> * repair install of Windows XP Home
>>
>> HELP!
>>