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Problems with MPEG files and the MS Media Player?

If you have installed Microsoft Mediaplayer as the default program for playing MPEG files (and that will be the case, if you have MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or 5.0 installed, and no other MPEG playing software was subsequently installed), then you may experience the following problems with MPEG clips downloaded from the DWW Web Club.

As soon as you click on the link to the MPEG clip you want, you get the above error message.

Reason is an approved bug of your microsoft mediaplayer software version:

tracking number SRX 980 722 602 061, bug number #31612

This problem does not occur in Netscape Navigator!

There are 2 possibilities to get round this problem

1)    The best solution.
Save the MPEG file to your hard disk before you start Mediaplayer. This means that if you want to look at the clips later, you don't have to download them again from the server. The clips will be on your hard disk and can be played as often as you want without connecting to the internet.

  How you do it:

Create a folder on your PC hard disk in which you can save your clips.
Start Windows Explorer and choose
Menu > File > New > Folder
Click to create the folder and type your choice of name for the new folder

(e.g. DWW-Clips)

Connect to the internet and go to the page with the MPEG clips.

Click on the link to the MPEG files with the right mouse button and choose the option "Target Save Target as..."

Either typ in the full path and name of the folder in which you want to store the clips (in our example C:\DWW-Clips) or use the "Browse" option to find the folder you just created.

The download and save process will take some time and is dependent on the speed of your internet connection.

   TIP: You can also download MPEG clips using the recommended program „GO!ZILLA“. The advantage of using this program is that if your connection is interrupted, the software knows how much was already downloaded, so it picks up from the interruption, rather than starting all over again.

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In order to view the downloaded clips, start Windows Explorer and find the folder in which you saved the MPEG clips.

   Then double-click your chosen clip and the Mediaplayer will play it for you.

2)    Another method is to confirm the error message by clicking on "OK" but not to close the program (i.e., let the program continue). If you then click on the MPEG clips link again, Mediaplayer should start playing the clip.
We tried this and it worked 9 times out of 10.