Windows Media player 11 - Multiple Problems (FIXED)

I have noticed a problem with my Windows Media Player 11. The problems do not occur in the Media Player 6.4 pack with XP, but i need WMP 11 as it has a play list and other features which i need to use. This has occurred a while ago.

The problems include:
- My Visualizations not working. They are listed but they do not show. just a black screen. These include: Alchemy, Battery etc.
- My Player not able to show videos with "Progressive Download", that is it wont buffer online videos.
- My Player unable to play radio streams which are online such as galaxy. Media Player 6.4 is able to play them

I have Windows XP Professional SP2

Any Help will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Edit: My network tab in Player Options is shown but when I clicked it does not do anything. The tab doesn't open. All other tabs are working.
Also id Windows Media Player is embedded in Internet Explorer as an object. It does not play it shows but just shows an error messages saying Cannot Play

 

try rolling back your version of wmp and use wmp 10. to roll back the version do a google search on changing versions

 

Thanks for the reply i'll try that today.

 

om good luck

 

well i uninstalled WMP 11 and it was rolled back to 9

so i played an mp3 on my computer and the visualizations work
then i tried to play a streaming content Galaxy 102.2 but it would not play i got a "Class not registered" error message. Then i went to the MICROSOFT video demo and i was able to play the progressive download but the first link still said the "Class not registered" error message although it was an active x control

 

now you should upgrade to 10. that should work even better

 

downloading now...

 

and if that dont work you might need some plugins from the wmp website to get all the features you want. had to edit i cant spell

 

Windows MEdia Player 10 wont install:
not supproted by your version of windows

Does any player support Progressive download

i like 6.4 but it doesn't support progressive download

 

ok that sucks. im not sure what else to do. you could look on the wmp website for updates for the version you have right now

 

ok thanks anywayz

im giving up on WMP 9, 10 and 11

switching to 6.4

PS is there a difference between Media Player Classic and mplayer2 built into XP

 

ok well you could always try some other media player ike itunes or something

 

I can't see why it's not working. ..i had XP PRO SP2 and WMP 11, and it worked fine.

 

I got WMP 9 fixed. All three problems are fixed.

It seemed that when i did the roll back to WMP 9 it wasn't working because my ZoneAlarm Security Suite blocked the rollback from running regsvr32 a few times.

I disabled ZoneAlarm. installed WMP 11 it still had the problems. Then i did a roll back. After a restart all the problems were fixed. Visualizations are working, progressive download works, I can play Galaxy 102.2 and the network tab is available.

I don't trust WMP 11. This had happened before i reinstaled Windows XP. But at that time all my files would not play.

 

great glad you got it fixed