re: Windows Media Player 9.0 Crashes all the time
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tim
(29 messages posted)
OK here is my follow up on this issue. The answer that I got here, I really didn't
have the non-laziness to implement. So I resigned myself to not dealing with it
- and thus not being able to see the videos when accessed via embedded website, or
File->Open URL.
This went on for at least a week, and every so often I would try it and of course
I got the same crash.
Until last night. It is as if there never was a problem.
I have not made any system changes at all. I have the Microsoft Autoupdating "Feature"
turned off.
I can view embedded video at any website. I can use File->Open URL without crashing
again.
So in this case, the solution was "ignore it and it will go away". Either that or
Microsoft happens to patch software without saying anything? But Win2K and WMP9
are old stuff so what gives?
Odd.
On Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 5:23 pm, tim wrote:
>Anytime I try and use WMP to access video via a website, or use File->Open URL,
WMP
>totally crashes.
>
>Running Win2K SP4, Firefox 2.0. With website embedded video, I usually get the
message
>saying "Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library The plug-in performed
>an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Firefox" Most of the
>time I can just continue using Firefox to browse, but once in a while it is all
dead
>and I need to crash out.
>
>Please note that it will also fail with IE 6.0 embedded website video, so it is
not
>some Firefox plug-in at fault. Also if I use File->Open URL, it crashes, but if
>I download said video locally, it will run fine. I have also taken local video
that
>works, uploaded it to my webspace and tried to access it, but crashed. So it is
>truly something to do with accessing video remotely.
>
>I have uninstalled the WMP chain of patches and security stuff so as to roll it
back
>to the original version whilst in Safe Mode, then restarted in normal mode, ran
the
>9.0 install, and then did a Windows Update to get the security stuff, all to no
avail.
>
>I ran a virus scan and found nothing. Java is enabled to the fullest. As far as
>I can recall, no significant system changes have occurred since this problem surfaced
>(though I could be just forgetting something here).
>
>It was like this for a while about a year or two ago, and I fixed it to where it
>was actually working by getting a new version (9.0). This worked for a long time,
>and then about 2 months ago just up and died for no apparent reason. Other media
>players such as DIVX do work, but I cannot get Firefox to use DIVX when viewing
embedded
>webpage video.
>
>As far as I can tell, no version past 9.0 will work in Win2K (Gee thanks, Bill Gates),
>so I cannot upgrade to 10 or 11 - please correct me if I am wrong here.
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