Solution to Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) Cannot Stream and Play MMS Media Protocol in Vista

Occasionally, Windows Media Player 11 (WMP 11 or WMP11) that comes with Windows Vista has problem streaming and playing media contents, be it audio or video, from Internet that use MMS protocol. When click on a link on web page that features URL:MMS protocol, or when watching a embedded video clip streaming via MMS protocol, the Windows Media Player does not play the movie, anime, trailer and other video contents, or another media player been launched to stream and playback the video instead.

Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) cannot be used to play MMS streaming video contents by default, when clicked on URL link location or on web pages embedded with video clips because of program association with the URL:MMS protocol has been altered and disassociated.

Windows Vista, and also Windows XP checks program association that been linked with MMS protocol to determine its next course of action and uses which associated program to play the media. Disassociation from WMP or association of MMS protocol with another media player causes Windows doesn’t know what to do when dealing with URL starts with MMS://, or start the video playback in other media player.

To resolve the issue, simply set back the program association of MMS protocol to WMP 11. To do so in Windows Vista, go to Control Panel -> Programs -> Default Programs, and then click on Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program link. In “Set Associations” window, locate and highlight MMS (URL:MMS Protocol), then click on Change program button to select Windows Media Player from the list of programs available.

The correct setting to let WMP 11 handles all MMS streaming media contents should looks like figure below:
MMS Association with WMP



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  1. kevin
    January 1st, 2009 10:29
    30

    ok not to be all wtf to you guys, but im trying to watch a video on thsi site, free6.com and i click on the video link , and it used to automatically open windows media player and..viola .. now — i click on it, the link goes to a blank screen, and i have to copy the url from the link, and paste it into the open url thing, is there any way how i can make it go automatically to opening the link i click on in windows media player ??

  2. cn605
    January 1st, 2009 01:52
    29

    follwed out the instructions and i noticed it was already associated. was hoping i could just click a link, mpg,wmv,avi etc. and
    it would open up and play the file in wmp11.
    like it used to in wmp 9 or 10. i have to keep looking for an answer.

    thnaks anyway,
    cn

  3. diegox
    December 15th, 2008 00:48
    28

    y en xp como

  4. Sean
    November 28th, 2008 21:47
    27

    I carried out all of the instructions, but there is no MMS listed in the SET ASSOCIATIONS list. What now?

  5. Anirudh
    November 15th, 2008 16:58
    26

    Many thanks, William for your useful comments. It worked for me.

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