Problem with mms audio streams

[55brianb]

Hi everyone

I have a website about radio stations. I got a friend to set up a
database for it (php/MySQL). This database contains all the
information, such as station name, location etc. It also contains the
url for the station website and the url for the live audio. The live
audio can be in a variety of formats, but one of these formats is
causing a problem - it's the "mms://" protocol, used by Microsoft's
Windows Media. When a user clicks on a link, the database looks up
the url associated with that link, and then passes the url to the
user's browser. But unfortunately any url starting with "mms://"
immediately fails, resulting in a "This page cannot be found" error in
Internet Explorer. The strange thing is that this isn't consistent -
I have 2 pcs here at home, plus a laptop. On the main pc all the mms
urls work. On the second pc they fail, and the laptop they also
fail. On my girlfriend's pc they fail, but on my work pc they
work!

My home pcs are using Windows XP Pro (SP2) and the *identical* version of Internet Explorer.

My friend can't understand why this is happening, and not being a
database programmer I'm of no use to him at all, apart from paying
him! ;-)

I don't think it's a problem with the the database and I'm more likely to think it's a problem with the browser, but what?

Has anyone here come across this problem, or more importantly, a solution?


Thanks
Brian

[55brianb]

Replying to my own post!

Have finally figured out what the problem was; I had a look at the Internet Explorer settings on the pc here which the audio stream wouldn't work on, and "Show friendly HTTP error messages" was ticked - it wasn't ticked on the pc which *could* get the audio feed. So, unticking it cleared the problem on the other pc, and the laptop too!

Originally Posted by 55brianb

Hi everyone

I have a website about radio stations. I got a friend to set up a
database for it (php/MySQL). This database contains all the
information, such as station name, location etc. It also contains the
url for the station website and the url for the live audio. The live
audio can be in a variety of formats, but one of these formats is
causing a problem - it's the "mms://" protocol, used by Microsoft's
Windows Media. When a user clicks on a link, the database looks up
the url associated with that link, and then passes the url to the
user's browser. But unfortunately any url starting with "mms://"
immediately fails, resulting in a "This page cannot be found" error in
Internet Explorer. The strange thing is that this isn't consistent -
I have 2 pcs here at home, plus a laptop. On the main pc all the mms
urls work. On the second pc they fail, and the laptop they also
fail. On my girlfriend's pc they fail, but on my work pc they
work!

My home pcs are using Windows XP Pro (SP2) and the *identical* version of Internet Explorer.

My friend can't understand why this is happening, and not being a
database programmer I'm of no use to him at all, apart from paying
him! ;-)

I don't think it's a problem with the the database and I'm more likely to think it's a problem with the browser, but what?

Has anyone here come across this problem, or more importantly, a solution?


Thanks
Brian