Workaround for TVAnts + Vista + WMP11

[martist]

TVAnts 1.0.0.59 Build 0835
Vista Home Premium with SP1
Windows Media Player 11

[confirmed working 12 April 2009]

If you do a normal TVants installation (and enter a working proxy if needed) I found that the stream buffers nicely but the media player never starts.

I couldn't find anyone on internet who had got it working, and finally solved it myself. There was lots of advice that didn't help me: I DIDN'T need to run any TCP patches for vista because mine was buffering well. If yours isn't buffering you need to fix this before following my post here. I DIDN'T need to uninstall any download managers.

If you live in a country where access to TVAnts is blocked you will also have to use a proxy (this is well covered in other threads).

I turned off User Account Control, but I don't know if this is necessary. I could find out but I'm watching Man U giving Inter Milan a beating. (EDIT: I've since tested this: you don't need to turn off User Account Control)

1. Download latest TVAnts
2. Right-click on it and choose "Run as administrator"
3. After it is installed, find the installed program, in c:/program files/ tvants
4. Right-click on Tvants.exe, choose properties / compatability, select "Run as administrator" (might not be necessary) and "run this program in compatability mode for: Windows XP SP2".
5. That's it.

When you click on a TVAnts channel it will buffer well, but it will not automatically open the media player. After about 2 minutes you will get a screen saying that it can't open the stream in the internal player. Click YES to open the Windows Default Media player. WMP will open and after a little more buffering the TV programme will start.

If you've got a solution that automatically opens the media player, please post details!

[HALman]

Interesting - I get the same problem with Windows 7 Beta. I'll give this a try and see what happens.

[muckman1]

thanks for the help but it still wont give me a picture.whenever i open it in wmp11 it wont open.thats so strange.i use ants for years and never had problems.this happened just today.hope i can get it to work soon

[martist]

thanks for the help but it still wont give me a picture.whenever i open it in wmp11 it wont open.thats so strange.i use ants for years and never had problems.this happened just today.hope i can get it to work soon

Sorry it doesn't work for you. I was the same - used Tvants easily until this latest version plus I moved to Vista at the same time. Is your buffering OK? If not you have to fix that first, but I guess you know that.

[muckman1]

buffering is alright.the picture just wont start.will do more research.

[muckman1]

hm this problem is a vista problem imo.i ran tvants on my old desktop pc who has xp on it and there tvants worked as it did all the time.buffering came up quick and then the picture.so this has to do with some vista updates that arent
compatible with tvants and other p2p applications like tvu/spvod/sina

[martist]

Thanks for the feedback, Muckman1.
I've since confirmed that you don't need to turn off User Account Control.
Which version of Vista have you?

[muckman1]

i have exactly the same versions as mentioned in your first post
newest tvantsvista home premium with service pack 1
wmp11

[scousers]

i have vista my tv ants buffers well then the tcp message comes up and says don you want to open in wmp i click yes and wmp opens and it buffers on wmp and the picture comes up and works fine i have home vista

[muckman1]

well i think i have tried everything.just wont give me a picture.also in tvu it says in the player window that it cant display the webpage.its so strange as i didnt do anything and from one day to another both ants and tvu wont work anymore for me.maybe more peeps have this problem and so tvants and tvu will do something about this or microsoft will.i keep my fingers crossed

[martist]

well i think i have tried everything.just wont give me a picture.also in tvu it says in the player window that it cant display the webpage.its so strange as i didnt do anything and from one day to another both ants and tvu wont work anymore for me.maybe more peeps have this problem and so tvants and tvu will do something about this or microsoft will.i keep my fingers crossed

It's odd that scousers and mine are working, but yours isn't. Have you tried it with all firewall, antispyware, etc disabled? Trying it on someone else's internet connection...

[amk87]

I have the same problem.all of a sudden TUV, TVANTS and SPVOD have stopped working for me. They worked perfectly fine till last monday and then all of sudden this happened, it buffers but does not start. can anyone please help with this?

[muckman1]

I have the same problem.all of a sudden TUV, TVANTS and SPVOD have stopped working for me. They worked perfectly fine till last monday and then all of sudden this happened, it buffers but does not start. can anyone please help with this?

welcome to my world.
tvants doesnt work on my vista system anymore.luckily i have access to another pc with xp on it and there ants works as it should.on tvu the picture just wont come up in the internal player but i could open the player in wmp with this
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should work in vlc too or instead of http use mms.
spvod i just cant use anymore.buffering is up but no picture or sound.just crazy.are you from germany too??maybe its a geo-issue???

[martist]

TVAnts channels that worked for me yesterday don't work today. Buffering is great as usual, but when I'm invited to open it in an external player, I press YES, and WMP says that it "can't find the file". I think I'm losing my mind.

[amk87]

No I am from the U.S. but I think alot of people are having this problem lately and there has to a fix for this. I hope someone knows about it and posts a solution over here soon.

[avinitski]

when TVants asks if i want to open an external player i get an error in WMP saying cannot play the file.

[amk87]

Some news from the TVU staff.

From their forum:

Hello all -

Problem description: you start a TVU channel, and in the video window you see a message that says "Navigation to the web page was cancelled". The channel does not start.

We believe that we’ve identified the source of the problem, which is a bad setting in the Windows “hosts” file. We’re confident that it’s not our software that made this change. It seems to be a pretty widespread problem. Please try the following to fix it:

Close the TVUPlayer (or the web page on which you are watching TVU)
Open the file c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
(assuming c: is the drive your OS is on; use an application like Notepad to edit the file)

On a default system, there should be a line that says (there is a tab between the “127.0.0.1” and the “localhost”):
127.0.0.1 localhost

On systems that are broken (i.e. the TVUPlayer says “Navigation cancelled” when you start up a channel), we’ve found that this line has been deleted, and replaced with one that says:
::1
(or maybe ::1 localhost)

To fix this problem, add the line “127”.0.0.1 localhost” line back in above the “::1” line, like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

Then save the file.
Restart the TVUPlayer; the problem should be gone.

Regards,
The TVU Team





This will make everyplayer work. LOSTNORMAN posted this on the TVU forum on this site. I just copy pasted it here so that everyone can fix there problem. ENJOY

[muckman1]

superb.simply great.this solved all my problems with tvu ,tvants and spvod.thank you very much.

[martist]

Thanks for posting AMK87, but my host file was already like that
Glad yours is solved muckman1!

[boris40scot]

i done what u said but it wont let me save it it says cannot create the c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts make sure path and file name are correct.