Vista - Corrupted Media Player - How do i repair???

I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
care to tell me whats wrong?
I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
IE7 in a bad state?

I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.

Regards
rohit

Rohit

Any error? How about at eventvwr.msc in run box>enter>click applicaitons
scroll down to time of problem or WMP as source and do same for system.

Did you try a system restore to when things were find (use several points
if necessary)?

CH


"Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
>I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> care to tell me whats wrong?
> I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> IE7 in a bad state?
>
> I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
>
> Regards
> rohit

Rohit:
If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.

--
Dennis Pack
Vista x64 Enterprise
Office 2007
"Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
>I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> care to tell me whats wrong?
> I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> IE7 in a bad state?
>
> I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
>
> Regards
> rohit

I don't see any error pertaining to Media Player but i did see an entry for
"wmpnetsvc" with some error code. I am currently away from my computer and
can not post the error code very now. I remember i could not search any value
for the error code. Could this be the problem? i remember yesterday i could
not start this service. The service stops the moment it starts logging in
this error code.

I will post the trace in a short while. Thanks for the reply.

"Chad Harris" wrote:

> Rohit
>
> Any error? How about at eventvwr.msc in run box>enter>click applicaitons
> scroll down to time of problem or WMP as source and do same for system.
>
> Did you try a system restore to when things were find (use several points
> if necessary)?
>
> CH
>
>
> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> > care to tell me whats wrong?
> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> > IE7 in a bad state?
> >
> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
> >
> > Regards
> > rohit
>
>
>

Hi Dennis,

I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3 days
back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the dev
machine.

cheers
rohit

"Dennis Pack" wrote:

> Rohit:
> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
>
> --
> Dennis Pack
> Vista x64 Enterprise
> Office 2007
> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> > care to tell me whats wrong?
> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> > IE7 in a bad state?
> >
> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
> >
> > Regards
> > rohit
>

I found the following two errors... not sure if they were because i tried to
install windows 9 codecs in XP compatibility mode. Any help is most
appreciated

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="WindowsMedia" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49166">4373</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-01-11T04:23:05.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>5328</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer><Something></Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Windows</Data>
<Data />
<Data>Not enough storage is available to process this command.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WMPNSS-Service"
Guid="{6A2DC7C1-930A-4FB5-BB44-80B30AEBED6C}" EventSourceName="WMPNetworkSvc"
/>
<EventID Qualifiers="49165">14324</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-01-11T23:21:59.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>14040</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>rohini-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="ServiceName">WMPNetworkSvc</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">0x8007007e</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>



"Chad Harris" wrote:

> Rohit
>
> Any error? How about at eventvwr.msc in run box>enter>click applicaitons
> scroll down to time of problem or WMP as source and do same for system.
>
> Did you try a system restore to when things were find (use several points
> if necessary)?
>
> CH
>
>
> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> > care to tell me whats wrong?
> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> > IE7 in a bad state?
> >
> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
> >
> > Regards
> > rohit
>
>
>

Rohit--

This doesn't sound like then, any special codec problem. It may not help,
but won't hurt so run sfc /scannow from an elevated cmd prompt and see if
there's any joy.

CH

"Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsA56886C-BD7C-491A-8895-B58F2077C7AE@microsoft.com...
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
> that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3
> days
> back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the
> dev
> machine.
>
> cheers
> rohit
>
> "Dennis Pack" wrote:
>
>> Rohit:
>> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
>>
>> --
>> Dennis Pack
>> Vista x64 Enterprise
>> Office 2007
>> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
>> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
>> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
>> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
>> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
>> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
>> > care to tell me whats wrong?
>> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
>> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
>> > IE7 in a bad state?
>> >
>> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
>> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > rohit
>>

I should add, that in the absense of error messages which can be very
helpful with WMP, in XP I could often fix things by reinstalling WMP. Vista
hoever, won't let you do that--it'll tell you it's there already.

CH

"Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsA56886C-BD7C-491A-8895-B58F2077C7AE@microsoft.com...
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
> that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3
> days
> back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the
> dev
> machine.
>
> cheers
> rohit
>
> "Dennis Pack" wrote:
>
>> Rohit:
>> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
>>
>> --
>> Dennis Pack
>> Vista x64 Enterprise
>> Office 2007
>> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
>> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
>> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
>> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
>> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
>> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
>> > care to tell me whats wrong?
>> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
>> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
>> > IE7 in a bad state?
>> >
>> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
>> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > rohit
>>

So it means if by some chance if media player is corrupted there is no way to
reinstall or atleast repair it... If this is the case I am sure no one would
like to install vista. I can't believe that there is no way to repair windows
media player

"Chad Harris" wrote:

> Rohit--
>
> This doesn't sound like then, any special codec problem. It may not help,
> but won't hurt so run sfc /scannow from an elevated cmd prompt and see if
> there's any joy.
>
> CH
>
> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsA56886C-BD7C-491A-8895-B58F2077C7AE@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Dennis,
> >
> > I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
> > that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3
> > days
> > back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the
> > dev
> > machine.
> >
> > cheers
> > rohit
> >
> > "Dennis Pack" wrote:
> >
> >> Rohit:
> >> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dennis Pack
> >> Vista x64 Enterprise
> >> Office 2007
> >> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> >> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> >> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> >> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> >> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> >> > care to tell me whats wrong?
> >> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> >> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> >> > IE7 in a bad state?
> >> >
> >> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> >> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > rohit
> >>
>
>
>

Okay i did scan my disk for errors and i found two EA's. Now when i ran
windows media player through IE activex i see the following error in error log

Service 'WMPNetworkSvc' did not start correctly because
CoCreateInstance(WindowsMediaPlayer) encountered error '0x8007007e'. If
possible, reinstall Windows Media Player.

Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WMPNSS-Service"
Guid="{6A2DC7C1-930A-4FB5-BB44-80B30AEBED6C}" EventSourceName="WMPNetworkSvc"
/>
<EventID Qualifiers="49165">14324</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-01-12T00:41:15.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>14170</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>My pc</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="ServiceName">WMPNetworkSvc</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">0x8007007e</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

"Chad Harris" wrote:

> Rohit--
>
> This doesn't sound like then, any special codec problem. It may not help,
> but won't hurt so run sfc /scannow from an elevated cmd prompt and see if
> there's any joy.
>
> CH
>
> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsA56886C-BD7C-491A-8895-B58F2077C7AE@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Dennis,
> >
> > I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
> > that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3
> > days
> > back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the
> > dev
> > machine.
> >
> > cheers
> > rohit
> >
> > "Dennis Pack" wrote:
> >
> >> Rohit:
> >> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dennis Pack
> >> Vista x64 Enterprise
> >> Office 2007
> >> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
> >> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
> >> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
> >> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
> >> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
> >> > care to tell me whats wrong?
> >> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
> >> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
> >> > IE7 in a bad state?
> >> >
> >> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
> >> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > rohit
> >>
>
>
>