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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / November 2005The host is unreachable
Hi there, Just setup a Win2K3 server with many websites and Windows Media Services. WMS uses port 90 for HTTP requests, and the firewall is all configured. The chaps in the server newsgroup helped me get it all sorted. The streams were all working happily on the macs last week, but something must have changed over the weekend, as my iMac gives me "The host is unreachable". I have had one other vistitor to my website tell me the same thing. www.dmcworld.com/technics2005/video.asp is the page with the videos. Could anyone using a Mac have a look for me, and if anyone knows how to cure this problem I would love to know. Kind regards, Steve > Hi there, > Just setup a Win2K3 server with many websites and Windows Media [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Steve Could any of you mac owners with Windows Media Player test some of my streams for me and let me know if they work? Cheers, Steve > Could any of you mac owners with Windows Media Player test some of my > streams for me and let me know if they work? > > Cheers, Ok I made a few tests and got interesting results. I tried one of the .wvx links on the page. The file immediately downlaoded and WMP launched. Unfortunately I got the same error message you did. I edited the wvx file and copied the mms:// link in there: mms://81.201.139.223:90/vids/2005dj1-100k.wmv to use it in WMP directly and again I got the same problem. Since I wanted to verify whether the host was indeed unreachable, I played around with the link and it turns out that if I replace the mms by http, it works just fine both from my browser and from WMP itself (using command-u "Open URL"). It's ovioulsy a bug in WMP. This workaround is really tedious, but at least it did te trick, Corentin WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire >>Could any of you mac owners with Windows Media Player test some of my >>streams for me and let me know if they work? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > It's ovioulsy a bug in WMP. This workaround is really tedious, but at > least it did te trick, Could it be due to me using port 90? Maybe that confuses the player? If I add the http:// link to the wvx file that may get around it? For PC users it would just play the file again, but would the Mac users for the host not reachable? I will play around and see what I can make it do. Thanks for the help! Steve > Could it be due to me using port 90? Maybe that confuses the player? If > I add the http:// link to the wvx file that may get around it? For PC > users it would just play the file again, but would the Mac users for the > host not reachable? I will play around and see what I can make it do. > > Thanks for the help! It could be. THere are a lot fonetworking bugs i WMP and this one could be yet another one... Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire |
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