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  1. Out Of The Blue -- No Live Stream

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Hello out there...

    Will sure appreciate your help! Apologize for the length but wanted

    you to know how I have tried to troubleshoot so far.

    I am desperate to help my 85 yr old mother! For 3 full years,

    she has had no problem accessing live streaming video from

    the National Zoo pandacam. She has watched the youngest panda Tai

    since his birth until now and checks 3-4 times a day to see what he's up to.

    For the last 2-3 days, has been unable to get video.

    The screen says "Ready" so she clicks on the play button

    and nothing happens. [actually, you don't normally have to click on anything

    -- it just automatically begins] The website comes up for her just fine,

    but the video is blank. I tested it on my computer and I can get it fine,

    so it's not the website.

    I had her delete all temp internet files and cookies -- then restart.

    That made no difference.

    Thinking it could be her video card, I had her go to CNN and

    click to watch one of their video recordings. She could watch that just fine,

    so I know her video card can display.

    I did not think there could be a difference in live streaming

    and a recording, but just in case had her go to an espn live racing page,

    and she could not get the live stream of a race track, yet I could on my computer.

    Then I had her go to CNN's LIVE page

    cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream1 and try to click on

    one of their live streaming choices. She got this response:

    CONNECTION ERROR: The video player cannot establish

    a connection to the server. Please try again later.

    Any ideas? She does not fool with any settings,

    so nothing has changed about her computer. This has happened out of the blue.

    [XP - IE6]

    She has Cable Internet service. Is it possible that they are blocking live steaming?

    Thank you so much for reading this.

    Will keep my fingers crossed that someone has an idea! nancy

  3. Review - Xp - Sp3

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Liz -- I haven't been on the board in a while but remember

    your agreeing with me quite a while back about not being

    ready for IE7. Seems like long ago when I finally jumped

    into IE7 and think it's just great. I always loved the tabs with

    Firefox and now I can have them on IE too.

    There's really nothing to dislike.

    nancy

  4. Xp Sp3 Rtm Download

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Sure appreciate the discussion. When I saw SP3 show up ready to download, I assumed

    it was okay but knew to check this wonderful board first.

    I also read in an article today that SP3 was not going out until sometime in June to the people

    who have their computers set to automatically download updates .

    After reading the comments here, I'll wait until June for sure.

    Thanks so much!

    nancy

  8. Outlook Express Locking Up

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Will sure appreciate anyone's time.

    Computer: XP home ed -- Pentium D processor with plenty of power and plenty of memory.

    I've used Outlook Express probably since about 1993 on several different computers

    with not one problem over the years.

    In the last week, however, a couple of times, it has stopped functioning.

    The first time, all of a sudden the messages in my Sent and Deleted folders disappeared.

    I kept checking to make sure I wasn't dreaming, but they were gone.

    I closed the program and reopened [without restarting the computer]

    and all messages were there and everything was normal.

    Since then, 3 or 4 times, I couldn't delete a particular message and then couldn't view it.

    I would get a little error message that the email couldn't be displayed.

    Once again, when I close out the program [OE], and open it back up, it's fine.

    Do you think I'm heading toward some major problem?

    The only thing I have done different to my computer before this happened

    was to add Spybot Search and Destroy, which I have used before

    but had just never put on this particular computer because I was already using

    Adaware, Spysweeper, and Win Defender.

    As I mentioned, I have never ever seen this happen

    before, so it is worrying me.

    Thanks so much,

    nancy

  16. Video Via Internet - Settings

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by wonderent

    In trying to look at a segment via the This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC website, whether I try on IE or Firefox, it runs for 10 seconds and then hesitates [buffers, I guess]. If this were dial up, I would understand, but we have DSL which is pretty fast. Is there a configuration that will set video clips to totally download before playing?

    Sure will appreciate your time and assistance!

    nancy

  17. Blinkx

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Appreciate JSKY and additional info from Terrorist --

    After posting here, I read something about how sites can actually send

    malicious software to your computer as you view a video.

    I guess a video would be considered a download,

    so maybe I'd better play it safe. What The Terrorist said

    concerns me -- divorce or no divorce!!

    This was just a speech I wanted to wanted to watch for inspiration

    and enjoyment -- not something I have to see.

    Thanks again. I really do appreciate your time. Thanks to you all,

    I continue to learn.

    nancy

  18. Blinkx

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    JSKY --

    This is what it had on the red x on the google search for the site:

    "Misleading business practices [Reported]"

    Do you think that this is more like what you were talking about and

    as long as I just view the speech, I'll be okay?

    Thanks! nancy

  20. Blinkx

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Sure would appreciate anyone's time.

    I use SiteAdvisor [the free McAfee program that tests sites for safety] and love it.

    However, last night when I searched for and found a speech I wanted to hear,

    I started viewing it via Real Player and all of a sudden noticed that the

    siteadvisor indicator was RED!

    I got out of the site but want to ask if anyone knows what could be wrong

    with my viewing this speech. It is only a speech of a political strategist that I love

    and enjoy listening to -- one I hear on CNN, ABC,and NPR.

    The site itself is blinkx.com.

    If anyone thinks it is okay for me to view this speech, please let me know.

    Thanks! nancy

  24. Sp2: Disc Or Download?

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    I have a friend who has an old XP that still has SP1 on it.

    I have the original disc I ordered from Microsoft way back when SP2

    first came out and was wondering if I could use that to save her some

    time or would it be better for her to download it since so much

    time has passed?

    I didn't know if they might have changed the download to include

    some of the fixes....since it seems as though we've had hundreds!

    Sure would appreciate your time.

    nancy

  25. May 8 Windows Update Causes Probs In Ie7

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    When I saw this in the tech news today, I decided to see if

    it had been addressed on this board. After not seeing anything,

    I've decided I should post this link because it does mention

    a work around.

    Since I don't have IE7, I haven't had the problem, but am sharing

    in case it helps anyone else. I apologize if this is very old news

    to the rest of you! nancy

    http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...;intsrc=hm_list