More info on the streaming technology for those having trouble.. Posted Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 4:15:09 PM     Alexandria Bay, NY 1000 Islands  Comments  Unique Views 2692/Total Views 2842

More info on the streaming technology for those having trouble..

To view AUDIO/VIDEO STREAMS like this you need your web browser set up properly and you have to install the windows media plug in when prompted. You also need to have a (version 10 or above) of windows media player installed on your computer. Most people do. Basically our live audio/video going to work for most people after a few clicks, but if it doesn't you'll probably need to have someone that is good with computers help you to get your web browser set to view a windows media stream properly.

That being said the following may help you. I recently ran across across someone that couldn't get THE LIVE AUDIO/VIDEO STREAM working and I went over to their house to troubleshoot. I eventually got it working and here is what I did.

While at the web cam page there was a prompt on their Internet Explorer screen to install the windows media active x control and that person was not seeing it. It's up near the top in a window across the screen. It sorta looks like the screen shot below. You have to click on it and run/install the active x control. SO DO THAT



After you do that wait a little bit and a popup should show up asking you if you want to install it. DO SO. After that you may or may not get a prompt from windows firewall asking if it is ok to allow the active x control to do it's thing. ALLOW IT

After that the windows media player stream was showing up, trying to connect, but still not playing.. I checked their Internet Explorer browser settings and made the following change. In internet explorer they had her security setting set to medium high.. I changed it to medium.. and then the audio/video stream on the web page started working... Specifically I went to Internet Options/Security in Internet Explorer.

The good news is you only have to do all of that once. The next time you go to the page it will just work.

So I'm sorry, but other than that bit of information I can't offer much more help. It's going to be different for everyone. So again, if you know a computer savy person have them come over and help you. They will probably get it working in no time.

I would also like to say that you can view the AUDIO/VIDEO STREAM using the Google Chrome and Firefox web browsers as well. You however have to install support for Windows Media for them and that is something you should google. I am not getting into all of that.

I also know it can work on Macs, but I don't know the details..

One last thing, none of the abay live cams work on iPads.. sorry..

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