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Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It?

From Adrian C <email@here.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It?
Date 2012-08-21 08:43 +0100
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On 21/08/2012 08:02, Ron wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2:15 pm, BillW50 <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:
>> On 8/20/2012 3:53 PM, Ron wrote:
>>
>>> After re-installing everything there's still one thing that doesn't
>>> work right on my system: whenever I try to play an audio clip on
>>> Wikipedia using IE8 or Opera 8.5 I get a message telling me I need
>>> some special kind of player. So I downloaded and installed Java but
>>> have no idea what player to use with it. Can anyone help with this
>>> problem?
>>
>>> Ron
>>
>> It sounds like you probably need the Adobe Flash Player. Although the
>> websites should tell you this if it is missing. The Flash Player should
>> be listed in the Control Panel if it is there. And you probably need one
>> for IE and one for Opera. So you have to install two different versions.
>
> Ah, but here's the rub: I tried everything I can think of but I can't
> get the damn players to work for IE8 and I don't know why. They work
> for both Firefox and now even for Opera, but for some unknown reason
> the players wont associate with the .0gg files  or is it the other way
> around? Oy!

Adove Flash player is a wild goose chase. Same with Java.

Install VLC.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html


-- 
Adrian C



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A  Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-20 13:53 -0700
  Re: A  Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2012-08-20 16:15 -0500
    Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-21 00:02 -0700
      Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2012-08-21 08:43 +0100
      Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> - 2012-08-22 14:59 +0100
        Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-23 10:02 -0700

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