I want media player to play stuff from net not download it b4 to play it

[Mark-UK]

OK its bugging me now. When i go to film trailer sites or music chart sites i click on the file and it says where do i want to save it. Thing is i dont want to save it i just want to play it from the net like my desktop windows media player does.

When i do download it i can never find the file to play it and i cant create a playlist to play it either. Its all a lot of faffing around just to see a 5 second clip or summat.

So can you make your X5 windows media player play the files youve just clicked on there and then and not have to download the file first to your PDA and create a playlist or search around trying to find the file youve just downloaded.

The play file automaticly box is not ticked when that first screen pops up asking me where i want to save the file too, and it wont let me tick it either. I presume its something to do with that.

please help thanks.

[Tom61]

I think you can stream a standard file by opening it directly from Media Palyer, by going Tools->Open URL. However, I don't know of any sites that have WMV or WMA non-streamed downloads, so I haven't tired. You're going to need a third party webbrowser to get the link's URL, as PIE doesn't let you copy a url from a link using the menu. The free FTX browser can do this.

[frankenbike]

A lot of those things aren't streaming at all on your desktop. They're saving them to a temp directory. I just cleared 30 gigs of them off my desktop PC.

The PPC might not be automated to do that, so you have to save it. But either way, if it isn't streaming video on the site, it's got to be saved to your machine.

[Tom61]

He means to play it as he's saving it. Most formats don't have to finish downloading to be played on a PC (though it does download).

[oldorange]

I use PIE and then, click and hold the video I want, then, ADD TO FAVORITES, then click & hold the URL box, then, SELECT ALL, then, COPY, then switch over to MEDIA PLAYER, then click on TOOLS, then, GO TO URL, then click and hold the box and PASTE and enter......I don't know why I have to do all this though.....if I just click on a WMV based movie my AXIM thinks it's a page of text and loads it in the browser window.....I only get the option to save a file if it is an MPEG or AVI, which my windows media player cant play anyway.....I have not tried a site with native WMA files yet......AFTER I go back to PIE, I cancel the add to favorites since I just use it to copy and paste the url to the WMV file.

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OK its bugging me now. When i go to film trailer sites or music chart sites i click on the file and it says where do i want to save it. Thing is i dont want to save it i just want to play it from the net like my desktop windows media player does.

When i do download it i can never find the file to play it and i cant create a playlist to play it either. Its all a lot of faffing around just to see a 5 second clip or summat.

So can you make your X5 windows media player play the files youve just clicked on there and then and not have to download the file first to your PDA and create a playlist or search around trying to find the file youve just downloaded.

The play file automaticly box is not ticked when that first screen pops up asking me where i want to save the file too, and it wont let me tick it either. I presume its something to do with that.

please help thanks.