[a few of these have been moved out of the bug thread by JimH]
1. When I attempt to play any WMA file I get the following Error dialog: "Playback Engine: Media Jukebox is unable to acquire license for this file. Windows Media Error: 0x80070005." This error only occurs when trying to play these files from the server on another computer when the server is set up to use a UserID and password.
Despite some theories that this is linked to DRM being activated in the WMA files, this does not appear to be the case for a number of reasons: (i) Media Center has no problem playing the files on any PC when they are loaded off the LAN, i.e. not streamed using the server; (ii) I have no problem playing them with Windows Media Player, Musicmatch Jukebox, Media Jukebox and even prior versions of the Media Center Server (e.g. prior to 9.0.130); and (iii) it is my strong recollection that when these files were ripped, DRM was turned off.
I believe this is a bug in how the Media Center client/server system handles playing WMA files.
2. Attempting to play many internet radio stations from Web Media (e.g. CNet Radio) does not work. For example Q-Music pops up the full screen interface, but plays no sound until I escape out, then music plays.
In other instances when it can't find a stream, it will pop up a dialog saying so and then the dialog with Media Core has encountered a problem and needs to close.Etc. and Media Center terminates.
Other times it can't find a stream, Media Center just produces a dialog box entitled JRReader that says Failed to connect to server. Reason: not found.
With other stations a maximized window with play, FF & RW buttons will pop up, but nothing will play.
3. When attempting to play many internet radio stations from Web Media, e.g. Bloomberg inconsistently, I will also get the Warning dialog saying Media Center encountered errors while trying to play the last several files. Make sure that the path in the Media Jukebox library points to the right location.
4. When playing Realaudio or Windows media streams, even when successful, a black window covers the entire screen. It starts out as having controls at the top and bottom and in the middle, but those disappear after a short time, leaving a completely blank screen.
5. Attempting to play internet radio stations that have been saved as library entries does not work from a remote PC. It pops up dialog asking for a username and password for the IP address of the PC acting as the server. This happens repeatedly without anything playing.
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8. No video shown when playing certain quicktime movies and audio is echo-y and out of sync.
9. Playing certain quicktime movies results in no video or audio (e.g. the quicktime movies made by BMW films).
10. No thumbnails of quicktime movies shown.
11. Certain quicktime movies will play but the bars on the top and bottom of the screen (except for active controls) will be overwritten by the video.
12. Attempting to play a quicktime file using a remote PC brings up a dialog asking for Quicktime Internet Authentication, then a dialog saying Media Center has encountered problems playing the last several files, and then I get a dialog saying Media Core has encountered a problem and needs to close. Etc. and Media Center terminates. Note: the first error listed only occurs if the server uses a UserID and password, but the even without these enabled, the second two fatal errors still occur.
13. Attempting to play an MPG video file using a remote PC plays the movie, but then I get a dialog saying Media Core has encountered a problem and needs to close.Etc. and Media Center terminates. Note: AVI videos play fine from a remote PC.
[some moved to a new thread]
18. No way to connect a remote PC (i.e. one other than the one on which the server is running) to Media Server by referencing the name of the computer on the LAN, e.g. as \\COMPUTER:81 where "COMPUTER"; is the name of the computer on the LAN and 81 is the port number the server has been set up to operate on. I believe this used to work, e.g. in Build 100.