[X-Newbies] Windows Media Player config

[Eugene]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:45:40PM CDT, Steven Rogers <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
: 
: I'm setting up an G4 from scratch with Tiger installed, going through  
: all the little config details, and I'm having a weird problem with  
: WMP and/or Safari. It seems like Safari is storing intermediate info  
: in a place that WMP doesn't have permission to access.
: 
: For example, go here, click on 10,000 maniacs, pick "Candy Everybody  
: Wants" and use WMP for the player. On my other Mac (a G5 running  
: Tiger from the factory) it plays fine in the embedded player. On the  
: one I'm configuring, WMP launches and then puts up the message  
: "permission denied".
: 
: http://www.rhino.com/retrovid/index.lasso
: 
: On another site that is much simpler, I get a similar error "The file  
: name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect" - and I  
: get that on *both* machines - so what's up with that?  This is just a  
: page with a link to a WMV file. When I download the file and double- 
: click it, plays fine.
: 
: http://www.v2rocket.com/start/others/aud_vid.html
: 
: Is there something I'm missing here about the configuration of WMP  
: and Safari?

Just out of the blue, do you have any volumes or directories
whose names have non-Roman characters in them (e.g. Chinese
or Japanese text)?


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Eugene
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