Mac specified streaming video not recognized/

I used to get email attachments with videos go automatically to my windows
media player for mac and it worked fine.
Now it goes there but doesn't play and just says specified streaming video
not recognized

Also I used to get the windows media for mac on my sbc yahoo home page when
I hit their video icon. Now all I get is the sbcyahoo video player which
does't work on the mac.

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:40:02 -0800, "dalia"
<dalia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I used to get email attachments with videos go automatically to my windows
>media player for mac and it worked fine.
>Now it goes there but doesn't play and just says specified streaming video
>not recognized
>
>Also I used to get the windows media for mac on my sbc yahoo home page when
>I hit their video icon. Now all I get is the sbcyahoo video player which
>does't work on the mac.

Did you read the other message I posted to you about the SBC Yahoo
page ? I'd fix that first and see how you get on.

Cheers - Neil

Hi Neil, thank you. I recently had erased all cookies and maybe THAT is what
caused the prob
problem. If that is the case, the question is how I can get back the cookie
that made windows media the default video player. Does that mean I have to
reinstal my Safari and Mozilla browsers? If so, I have to figure out how to
do it.
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:40:02 -0800, "dalia"
> <dalia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I used to get email attachments with videos go automatically to my windows
> >media player for mac and it worked fine.
> >Now it goes there but doesn't play and just says specified streaming video
> >not recognized
> >
> >Also I used to get the windows media for mac on my sbc yahoo home page when
> >I hit their video icon. Now all I get is the sbcyahoo video player which
> >does't work on the mac.
>
> Did you read the other message I posted to you about the SBC Yahoo
> page ? I'd fix that first and see how you get on.
>
> Cheers - Neil
>
>

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:05:02 -0800, "dalia"
<dalia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi Neil, thank you. I recently had erased all cookies and maybe THAT is what
>caused the prob

Actually, no I'm saying you *should* erase all cookies - the site
should then detect you haven't got a preference set and ask you which
player you prefer.

If it doesn't, probably there's a setting in your SBC account instead
which defines that preference, cause it's getting it from somewhere.

Websites get their info about your account in 2 ways really - long
term cookies (stored on your computer) or information stored in their
database which is read when you login. It will be one of those two,
you just need to work out which ;-))

Cheers - Neil


> Does that mean I have to reinstal my Safari and Mozilla browsers?

No, don't reinstall anything yet - there's no compelling reason to do
so. If in doubt, ask the Yahoo webmaster by email about what you can
do to reset your settings on their site.

>If so, I have to figure out how to do it.

That's another newsgroup entirely ;-))

Cheers - Neil

Neil
Thank you for your help. I have recontacted SBC yahoo again thru chat,
phone, email, etc and nobody can help me but one person did seem to think
that the windows media player for Mac was the default player on the SBC yahoo
home page and suggested I download it again and she connected me to the
download, so I did as I had done several times before and again it didn't
work.
It also didn't work on the PBS on line news hour although the real player did.
So I am going to call apple tomorrow but I'm afraid they will just refer me
to microsoft. But I will try anyway. Thank you.
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:05:02 -0800, "dalia"
> <dalia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi Neil, thank you. I recently had erased all cookies and maybe THAT is what
> >caused the prob
>
> Actually, no I'm saying you *should* erase all cookies - the site
> should then detect you haven't got a preference set and ask you which
> player you prefer.
>
> If it doesn't, probably there's a setting in your SBC account instead
> which defines that preference, cause it's getting it from somewhere.
>
> Websites get their info about your account in 2 ways really - long
> term cookies (stored on your computer) or information stored in their
> database which is read when you login. It will be one of those two,
> you just need to work out which ;-))
>
> Cheers - Neil
>
>
> > Does that mean I have to reinstal my Safari and Mozilla browsers?
>
> No, don't reinstall anything yet - there's no compelling reason to do
> so. If in doubt, ask the Yahoo webmaster by email about what you can
> do to reset your settings on their site.
>
> >If so, I have to figure out how to do it.
>
> That's another newsgroup entirely ;-))
>
> Cheers - Neil
>