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2000xlt · Dec 25, 2005

i saved some of those christmas light videos to my comp, i did save target as and saved them to my videos in my documents, but when i click on the video to play it says "in window media player" connecting, why is it connecting i thought i saved it, so how do i save it so that when the server takes down the video i will not loose it,

thanks

PhotonWrangler · Dec 25, 2005

2000xlt said:
i saved some of those christmas light videos to my comp, i did save target as and saved them to my videos in my documents, but when i click on the video to play it says "in window media player" connecting, why is it connecting i thought i saved it, so how do i save it so that when the server takes down the video i will not loose it,

thanks

WMP might be connecting to the internet to look for or share some information. Open up the player and go to View--->Options--->Player and un-check "Allow internet sites to uniquely identify your player and see if the behavior stops.

shaman · Dec 25, 2005

Also may be trying to download the proper codec for the videos in question.

wmv - Windows media codec
qt,mov - Quicktime codec
mpg - mpeg codec

Sincerely,

Shaman

Zelandeth · Dec 26, 2005

Think it's just a Media Player quirk. It's connecting to the media - despite it being stored locally. My PC tends to say that even when it's not online if I'm opening something outside the normal media library.

ABTOMAT · Dec 27, 2005

Do some WMV formats work like Real does? The file you saved to your computer might just be a little (tag/shortcut/whatever the media term is) to points to a stream.

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