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MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / October 2006Why is Windows Media Player 10 blocking a web-site preview?
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. 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 >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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. Thank you David, I will try that and let you know. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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. > Thank you David, I will try that and let you know. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just > > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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 >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 [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >> > > installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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. > Gwyn, > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> > > installing 9 again, but it will not fully install in XP. I have just > >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 78 lines] >> >> > > just >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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. > Gwyn, > [quoted text clipped - 93 lines] > >> >> > > just > >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 130 lines] >> >> >> > > just >> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. When I suggested Detect and Repair, I was talking about Publisher. Sorry if that was confusing. DavidF > Gwyn, > [quoted text clipped - 162 lines] >>> >> >> > > just >>> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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.!! > When I suggested Detect and Repair, I was talking about Publisher. Sorry if > that was confusing. [quoted text clipped - 167 lines] > >>> >> >> > > just > >>> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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 > Hi, I have tried the Detect and Repair. I have also Uninstalled Publisher > and [quoted text clipped - 207 lines] >> >>> >> >> > > just >> >>> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. 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. > Gwyn, > [quoted text clipped - 233 lines] > >> >>> >> >> > > just > >> >>> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening. Thanks for posting back. Yeah, all too often it is something small...glad you found it. DavidF > 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 [quoted text clipped - 280 lines] >> >> >>> >> >> > > just >> >> >>> >> >> > > reinstalled the 10 series, and it is still happening.
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