A fix, sort of, for 10.4.2 to play WMP files

I spent a couple of weeks trying to get WMP to play one particular
site's files and had zero luck, even with help from this forum ...

I downloaded, redownloaded, tried other software, etc ... nothing
worked.

My original problem was I could play SOME WMP files, but not a
particular site I needed for work. That site's IT was no help, etc., a
friend of mine ran it on her Mac and had the same problem,, all my DOS
friends had no problem, and the company said one of their people could
run it on a Mac (something I was sceptical about, but whatever)

THE FIX

By accident I double-clicked on the video file's address in Explorer's
pulldown <Windows/History> and TA-DAH the WMP file automatically
played ... I did it a bunch of times on two different files and it
worked every time (I did have a sort of no response to the clicking
once, but ...)

I have no idea why this worked ... but give it a try ...

And thanks to any who tried to help me

gary

<gjoyce.RemoveThis@optonline.net> wrote:

> THE FIX
>
> By accident I double-clicked on the video file's address in Explorer's
> pulldown <Windows/History> and TA-DAH the WMP file automatically
> played ... I did it a bunch of times on two different files and it
> worked every time (I did have a sort of no response to the clicking
> once, but ...)

were you able to play the files from other browsers ??
Would you have an link I could try for a stream that wouldn't play
unless you did that ??
Thanks,


Corentin

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