Like many of you I'm getting the C00D1197 error when I try to look at
content through Windows Media Player 10. I've figured out in my case
why.

The site I'm looking at links to video files like this
http://login:passw...@www.somesite.c...file/movie.wmv. I click the
link, I get the C00D1197 error.

The problem comes in here when Windows Media Player is given a
username and password in a link. It apparently doesn't know how to
properly read those types of URLs and gives the C00D1197 error.

There's a fix, and it's not too difficult to do. When you click a
link, click copy short cut, open Windows Media Player and paste the
link into it WITHOUT the @, :, username and password (in this case it
would be http://www.somesite.com/moviefile/movie.wmv)

WMP will prompt you for a username and pass, enter those and
watch/listen to whatever you were looking for.

The thing is I was wondering if there was a way to have Windows Media
do this automatically? It's annoying when I click on a link and then
have to copy and paste stuff in all of the time.

Anyone help me?

On 18 Nov 2005 01:53:53 -0800, catalystx@gmail.com wrote:

>Like many of you I'm getting the C00D1197 error when I try to look at
>content through Windows Media Player 10. I've figured out in my case
>why.
>
> The site I'm looking at links to video files like this
>http://login:passw...@www.somesite.c...file/movie.wmv. I click the
>link, I get the C00D1197 error.
>
> The problem comes in here when Windows Media Player is given a
>username and password in a link. It apparently doesn't know how to
>properly read those types of URLs and gives the C00D1197 error.
>
> There's a fix, and it's not too difficult to do. When you click a
>link, click copy short cut, open Windows Media Player and paste the
>link into it WITHOUT the @, :, username and password (in this case it
>would be http://www.somesite.com/moviefile/movie.wmv)
>
> WMP will prompt you for a username and pass, enter those and
>watch/listen to whatever you were looking for.
>
>The thing is I was wondering if there was a way to have Windows Media
>do this automatically? It's annoying when I click on a link and then
>have to copy and paste stuff in all of the time.
>
> Anyone help me?

Have you tried doing this using the FireFox browser ? IE "discontinued
support" for URLs with password@username style of URL for security
reasons (mostly yours), and since the browser component used to pass
the URL to media player depends on IE, it's actually an IE problem.

HTH
Cheers - Neil