Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws

  • From: "Samara Raine" <samararaine@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:17:07 -0400

Er... Okay. Thanks...


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Carlson 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:06 AM
  Subject: Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


  Usually you're prompted when you insert the DVD. If not, then use Windows 
Explorer to find the volume that's your DVD, and then press the Applications 
key to bring up the context menu. Then find the auto start, and change the 
default.

  Dave

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Samara Raine 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 22:02
    Subject: Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


    How do I do that? Set it as my default?

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Dave Carlson 
      To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:59 AM
      Subject: Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


      Samara,

      As I said, if you insert a DVD it plays just fine, as long as you have 
your auto start set to launch WMP for a Video disk.

      But again I have to grope around if I'm trying to launch a video that's 
sitting on my hard drive.

      Not impossible, but difficult, as you've experienced.

      Dave

        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Samara Raine 
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 17:38
        Subject: Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


        Darn. Well...um... do you have any recommendations? Currently I don't 
have a dvd player or anything so my computer's all I've got.


          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Dave Carlson 
          To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 5:05 PM
          Subject: Re: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


          Samara,

          Never had much luck playing videos with WMP. Insert a DVD and it's 
fine, but try to play a video file on the drive and very hard to start it up.

          Dave

            ----- Original Message ----- 
            From: Samara Raine 
            To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
            Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 13:32
            Subject: Using Windows Media Player with Jaws


            Does anyone use windows media player to play DVDS? And if so, how 
do you go about it? I can get my DVD to play, but not the movie. It'll start 
playing that intro stuff and then I tab over to the list pane and press enter 
on something and either nothing'll happen or it'll stop and not play anything 
else. Sometimes jaws says...oh...for example:

            Say there's a list pane and there are three chapters. Chapter 1, 2 
and 3. If I want to play chapter two, I'll go to it, press enter and nothing'll 
happen. I press space and it says it's unselected and the whole thing goes 
quiet. I hit space again and it selects, but doesn't play.

            Is this just a hopeless cause? Does anyone know of an accessible 
program I can use to watch dvds?

            Thanks so much.

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