Unable to play .wax file using wm10 or wm11

This is a follow-on to my question "C00D1197 Cannot Find the File wmp 11
Streaming..." of january 9.

I've now re-installed wm10 and I'm having the same problem I had with 11.
Sometimes the message is "cannot find the file" and sometimes it's "cannot
play the file". The page that is invoking WMP,
http://streaming.osu.edu/WOSU-NPRnews-wm.htm
contains the following line,
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;
url=http://streaming.osu.edu/WOSU/leadin/wosu-am.wax">

Is there something special that I have to do for .wax files? I've checked
and indeed that extension is associated with WMP. I've tried tweaking browser
security settings and have added http://streaming.osu.edu as a trusted site.

 

normally no
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316992/en-us

install --> Pos. 2.)
http://www.der-wmp.de/index.htm#pluginwmp

read also

hth
Matthias

 

Thanks for your reply, Matthias. Regarding
I'm not sure how to
find that article. I take it that it's a newsgroup article,, but I don't know
how to construct a url from what you have provided. Can you help me out?

Phil

 

Neil, thanks very much for the detailed reply.
I have some questions.

1.

I'm getting basically the same result under BOTH 10 and 11. Also, some
others I've heard from here say they can get to the streaming site (I think
with 10) using http://streaming.osu.edu/WOSU-NPRnews-wm.htm, which is the one
that fails for me using EITHER 10 or 11.

2.
I'll try the HTML code on wmp 10 and see if it makes a difference. Do I just
put the code you provided into a file on my computer and then initiate the
stream by putting that file name into my browser? That is, the full pathname
of the file as it is on my computer? Is the correct format to do this
file://the-full-pathname-of-my-file? (My lack of HTML skill is showing!!)

3.
Would you mind telling me how you were able to find the osu code? I tried
displaying the source code (at a higher level) but got lost when I tried to
drill down into the heirarchy.

4.
Is it possible that my browser (IE6) is blocking

I defined streaming1.osu.edu as "trusted" in my browser, but not the two
above.

Again, Neil, thanks a lot for your replies.

Cheers,
Phil

 

Thanks cwd (may I call you "cwd"?) for your excellent information in both
this post and the earlier one. I'll take a look at the page you reference
regarding servers.

I noticed in re-reading the earlier one that, when you were successful in
downloading the streaming file in question, you were using Firefox. I'm using
IE when the error occurs. I'm wondering if it might be a browser
security-related issue blocking in my case.

Phil

 

I've determined that the problem lies with my A-V/Firewall software. I
"disabled" Kaspersky, assuming that would [duh] DISABLE Kaspersky. Apparently
there are obscure pieces-parts of the product that continue to lurk, even
after being "disabled", and it was one of those components that was blocking
the streaming audio. No log record is written!!!

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Phil