Why is Windows Media Player 10 blocking a web-site preview?

[Gwyn]

I have published my web-site successfully for 6 years in Publisher. I
up-graded to Windows XP with no problems. I have a background sound. I have
just upgraded from the Windows Media Player 9 to the 10 series. I am now
finding that the Windows Media Player is blocking the web-site preview in
Publisher. The Media Player will play the music on its own, but will not play
in Publisher or allow a web-site preview. I have tried uninstalling 10 and
installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just
reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening.

 

[DavidF]

Perhaps the media player has been installed to play the background sound
file by default? Look for a way to change that setting in the player, or
perhaps post this question in a player newsgroup?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community.aspx

DavidF

 

[Gwyn]

Thank you David, I will try that and let you know.

 

[Gwyn]

I have taken the background sound off my web-site. However, Windows Media
Player still pops up and tells me it can not play the codec, when I try to do
a web-site preview in Publisher, and it blocks the preview. How can I get rid
of it?
I feel as if I need to tick/untick something in Publisher.

 

[DavidF]

Gwyn,

When you said you took the background sound off, did you: In Pub 2000 go to
File > Web Properties >Page tab and delete the background sound file > ok.
In Pub 2003 go to Format > Background > delete background sound file > ok.
Did you do this for every page where the background sound was inserted.

Did you perhaps insert a code snippet to import the sound, and not delete
that code snippet?

Are you saying that you did all or some of the above, saved and closed your
file, rebooted, open the file and then when you preview your site, the media
player still pops up?

A shot in the dark...have you emptied your IE temp cache? Tools > Internet
Options and delete Temp. Internet files.

DavidF

 

[Gwyn]

Yes,I deleted the file name on every page in Web-site options. It is now
online with no background sound. I deleted all temp internet files, but could
not delete 32KB Webclient/Publisher files. The Media player is still popping
up. The only thing I have not done yet, is find a code snippet (How do I do
that?), that I may have added years ago on the old Publisher. (I have been
transfering files from my old web-sites into Pub for years. I am now using
Pub 2003.
I may have to start all over again and rebuild the web-site from scratch,
and hope that this does the trick.

 

[DavidF]

Gwyn,

I am not sure what is going on... Try opening the Player, Tools, File types
and uncheck the sound file type that you had used for your background sound.
Check to see if by some weird chance .pub file type is listed, and uncheck
it is it is. Then try previewing your site again. Does it ever open in IE?

If you open one of the website templates in Publisher, and do a web preview,
does the media player open?

About the code snippet...I was just checking to see if you had tried to use
the insert html code fragment tool to insert a sound file into the Pub doc.

DavidF

 

[Gwyn]

The media player will pop up on every individual page, when I try to do a
web-page preview, and say cannot play file. I have tried making a new
web-site using a blank page, and it still pops up on web-site preview.
IE is still bringing up the last page first with the music, on one of my
links. The full version,starting with the index page does not have the sound.
Yahoo, will show it properly, but Google is still bringing up the last page
first,with the music. There is also an old web-ring html on this last page
that I have taken off, but just may be causing the problem It will not let
go.
The site is "Gwynson Poodles". Will I have to wait until the crawler has
taken off all the old web pages? Will this affect Publisher or do you think
the fault is in the Media Player. I never had any bother until I upgraded
from Media Player 9 to 10.

 

[DavidF]

Gwyn,

I don't know the answer. You are the first to post about this problem in
this newsgroup. Did you ever post the question in the player newsgroup? I
agree that it sounds like it is something associated with the player,
especially since it happens even with a new web site publication.

You might also post your problem in a IE newsgroup to see if they have any
suggestions.

The only other suggestions I have is to try Help > Detect and Repair. If
that doesn't work, then perhaps totally uninstall and reinstall Publisher.

As to your other questions about how the search engines are working...you
have no control of that. I guess just hope that it sorts itself out after
you post new pages.

Sorry, like I said, I am totally guessing here. Perhaps someone else will
have an idea and jump in. If you do get it sorted out, please post back your
solution, as it might happen to someone else. Thanks.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

When I suggested Detect and Repair, I was talking about Publisher. Sorry if
that was confusing.

DavidF

 

[Gwyn]

Hi, I have tried the Detect and Repair. I have also Uninstalled Publisher and
reinstalled. -Nothing- I will try the Media Player series 11, and see if they
have fixed the coordination with Publisher. I am suspecting the HTML link
with the web-ring that I am trying to get rid of.
Thanks for your help. I will not have time to get back to this for a while,
but if I find a solution, I will certainly let you know.
Thanks again.!!

 

[DavidF]

Gwyn,

Somehow I think the act of previewing a website in Publisher has become
associated with the Media Player, and I had hoped that a reinstall or repair
would change that.

Try Publish to the web to your hard drive somewhere you can find the HTML
files...I would suggest your desktop. Go to the index.htm file that is
produced and double click it. Does it try to open in the Media Player? If
so, then right click the index.htm file, open with, choose program, select
Internet Explorer, and then check "Always use the selected program to open
this kind of file". Try to preview your website in Publisher.

If that doesn't work, then uninstall the Media Player, reboot, and try again
to re-associate the index.htm file with IE as I just described. Try
previewing your site again. If it works, then the next time you install the
Media Player, choose custom install if it gives you that option. At least
study each step, and at some point it will probably ask if you want the
Media Player to be the default program to open a list of different file
types. Scan those and make sure that you do not let it be the default
program for *.*htm files.

I hope that leads to a solution, cuz I am running out of guesses ;-)

DavidF

 

[Gwyn]

Hi, The solution was so simple it is laughable. I had the wrong file
extention. You were right, it was trying to open with the Media Player
instead of Internet Explorer,
so I had to change it to open with the html extension, in the internet
options.

 

[DavidF]

Thanks for posting back. Yeah, all too often it is something small...glad
you found it.

DavidF