Some of our older RichCasts utilize pop-up windows. If you have pop-up blocking software installed on your computer, it may prevent the player from launching properly.
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Adequate Bandwidth for streaming both Video and Audio, may not be available through your internet connection. Window Media players often drop the Video frames and play just the Audio in cases where bandwidth is not enough for transmitting both Audio and Video.
If the video was working before but now you are experiencing difficulties, the condition may be caused by a recent network configuration changes. Check with your Internet Service Provider or your Network Administrator. Your Internet Service Provider or the Network Administrator should be able to tell you if there have been any changes to the ability to stream media over the network to your computer.
This could be caused by Internet congestion. High levels of Internet and Network Traffic may cause this to occur.
You may also increase the buffering configuration of your Streaming Media Player.
The condition may be caused by your network configuration. Check with your Internet Service Provider or your Network Administrator. The Internet Service Provider or the Network Administrator should be able to tell you if configurations on your network would restrict your ability to view streaming media over the network to your computer exist.
Sometimes file transfers, over the Internet, can become interrupted. This could cause only partial information to exist in your Internet Browser's cache. Try clearing your Internet Browser's cache and then try accessing the Webcast again.
If you are within a corporate intranet, there may be local network settings that are impairing your ability to hear this webcast. Contact your corporate Network Operations or IT organization to see if streaming media formats are blocked at your corporate firewall or proxy server. Also, you can have your IT group configure your local media player to support HTTP-only protocol traffic over port 80. This may also help to resolve firewall-related issues. Refer to the Windows Media Player help pages for more information.