Mediaplayer Popping up while trying to download

matildarose · Post by **matildarose** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 8:58 pm

I've been downloaded videos off the site for a while, and things seemed to be working just fine as far as downloads go.

However, today, I was going for part 3 of the animix video when, suddenly media player popped on when I tried to download it, which gave me an error message and then nothing. The site, however, acts as if I had downloaded it. It now seems to do this for all .avi files, but I *know* it worked beforehand, because I just downloaded the first part to the animix video just minutes before. I don't remember changing anything, and every attempt to make media player to stop appearing as so far failed. Any ideas on how to fix this?

moonslayer · Post by **moonslayer** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:33 pm

Well if they're direct then right click and "save target as." I'm sure there's a way to stop it for local vids, but someone else will have to inform you how to do that.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:21 am

Check your media player settings to see if it's 'streaming' the vids. There should be a box or two that you can uncheck to get it to stop trying to stream videos (opening instead of downloading properly).

matildarose · Post by **matildarose** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:07 am

moonslayer wrote:Well if they're direct then right click and "save target as." I'm sure there's a way to stop it for local vids, but someone else will have to inform you how to do that.

Unforunately, I can't do that because, according to the website, I've already tried to download the file. Thus, whenever the link should show up, it says I need to wait 60 seconds before downloading.

Arigatomyna wrote:Check your media player settings to see if it's 'streaming' the vids. There should be a box or two that you can uncheck to get it to stop trying to stream videos (opening instead of downloading properly).

I unchecked all the boxes in that area, but it still kept popping up.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:32 am

As far as I know, any time your media player pops up when you try to download a video, it means you're streaming the video. Either there's still a setting that you missed, or it's in your 'internet options' settings. Check the help section of whatever media player you're using to see if it tells exactly how to disable the automatic streaming - and experiment with your internet settings (I don't know the exact boxes you have to uncheck/check if it's a problem with your internet options).

Another possibility - what file type are you trying to download? If it's windows media player that's popping up, try right-clicking a video of that file type (on your computer) and changing it so it's opened in a different media player - that should stop wmp from popping up even if you *can't* change the 'automatic streaming' option. You can always change the video type back to be read in wmp after you've downloaded it.

matildarose · Post by **matildarose** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:24 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:As far as I know, any time your media player pops up when you try to download a video, it means you're streaming the video. Either there's still a setting that you missed, or it's in your 'internet options' settings. Check the help section of whatever media player you're using to see if it tells exactly how to disable the automatic streaming - and experiment with your internet settings (I don't know the exact boxes you have to uncheck/check if it's a problem with your internet options).

Did that, and it's still not doing anything. I usually watch my files in winamp, and I even switched everything that windows media player usually views to winamp.

Another possibility - what file type are you trying to download? If it's windows media player that's popping up, try right-clicking a video of that file type (on your computer) and changing it so it's opened in a different media player - that should stop wmp from popping up even if you *can't* change the 'automatic streaming' option. You can always change the video type back to be read in wmp after you've downloaded it.

The file is an .AVI file. I doublechecked the file options, and it's set to winamp, not mediaplayer. I also told media player not to use any streaming techniques, but it still insists on popping up.
The problem is that I can't download the video at all, since windows media player pops into my browser and tries to read whatever video I usually would download. This action prevents me from getting the video at all, and the link that usually shows up later doesn't, since the website thinks I just downloaded the video.
As far as I know, I haven't changed any settings between the last time I downloaded an avi file and the first time I got this problem. In fact, like I said earlier, I had just downloaded an .avi file successfully about twenty minutes or so successfully.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:58 pm

matildarose wrote:As far as I know, I haven't changed any settings between the last time I downloaded an avi file and the first time I got this problem. In fact, like I said earlier, I had just downloaded an .avi file successfully about twenty minutes or so successfully.

So you can't download any avi files - local *and* direct? You've cleared your cookies, disabled the streaming option in your media players, and checked your internet options to stop it from playing flash media online. And you still can't download avi's without it streaming? If you have Windows XP you can do a system recovery to set your computer setting back a few days (back to before the problem arose) - if something *did* get changed it will be set back. Unless it's the files themselves, it has to be some problem with your settings (or some cookies that remained in the 'files' section and didn't get deleted automatically when you cleared them). I don't know what else would cause this particular problem.

[And if you have your avi files set to play in Winamp, is it Winamp that tries to stream the video or windows media player? I've *never* heard of winamp trying to stream videos...just windows media player and realone player... If it's windows media player that is popping up - what player pops up?????? - if it's wmp try uninstalling it. You're not using it for avi files, and you can always reinstall it later - if you can't change the settings so it doesn't stream, remove it until you need it again. If the player isn't on your computer, there's no way it can stream the videos.

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matildarose · Post by **matildarose** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:10 am

So you can't download any avi files - local *and* direct?

Direct ones will work, as long as I can click on the link and hit save as.

You've cleared your cookies, disabled the streaming option in your media players, and checked your internet options to stop it from playing flash media online. And you still can't download avi's without it streaming?

Yep. And actually, after coming back and downloading a file I've already seen (which allows me to click on the 'save as' link, thankfully), Mediaplayer even popped up for mpeg files as well.

If you have Windows XP you can do a system recovery to set your computer setting back a few days (back to before the problem arose) - if something *did* get changed it will be set back. Unless it's the files themselves, it has to be some problem with your settings (or some cookies that remained in the 'files' section and didn't get deleted automatically when you cleared them). I don't know what else would cause this particular problem.

I'll try that. ^_^

And if you have your avi files set to play in Winamp, is it Winamp that tries to stream the video or windows media player? I've *never* heard of winamp trying to stream videos...just windows media player and realone player... If it's windows media player that is popping up - what player pops up?????? - if it's wmp try uninstalling it. You're not using it for avi files, and you can always reinstall it later - if you can't change the settings so it doesn't stream, remove it until you need it again. If the player isn't on your computer, there's no way it can stream the videos.

It's windows media player. Winamp's behaved very well. :3 Unforunately, the computer won't allow me to touch it- if I move it, it just moves some of the files and not the actual program file itself. .... Windows can be such a bigger about programs that come along with it. >_<

matildarose · Post by **matildarose** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:22 am

If you have Windows XP you can do a system recovery to set your computer setting back a few days (back to before the problem arose) - if something *did* get changed it will be set back. Unless it's the files themselves, it has to be some problem with your settings (or some cookies that remained in the 'files' section and didn't get deleted automatically when you cleared them). I don't know what else would cause this particular problem.

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... Just tried a system retore to the day before this started, and it didn't help, unforunately. @_@;

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:49 pm

matildarose wrote:It's windows media player. Winamp's behaved very well. :3 Unforunately, the computer won't allow me to touch it- if I move it, it just moves some of the files and not the actual program file itself. .... Windows can be such a bigger about programs that come along with it. >_<

In your control panel - under the 'ad/remove programs' do you have a listing for one 'viewpoint media player' with the wmp icon (it should probably say you use it 'frequently' if it's popping up often)? If you uninstall that it should remove the player - and you can download and reinstall wmp 6 or 9 (whichever you prefer) from the microsoft website later if you want to. And you can always just go to 'program files' and manually delete the 'windows media player' folder - but it's better to actually uninstall it than to randomly delete files. ^_^;;