🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all !

I'm going completly nuts over this :

I want to play an MP3-file using TMediaPlayer.
I have tried this on 2 different machines (all with the latest hotfixes 
and Windows Media player installed):
   PC #1: W2K Prof   : Fails in mciSendCommand(...MCI_OPEN...).
   PC #2: W2K Prof   : Works perfectly.
   PC #2: WinXP Prof : Fails in mciSendCommand(...MCI_OPEN...).

The error I get is 266; "Unknown problem while loading the specified 
device driver."

All machines/OS's listed above plays an MP3 perfectly well if I load it 
up with Windows Media Player (v9.00.00.3344), even with the "old" one, 
v6.4.09.1129.

As I understand, the Windows MediaPlayer is using the mci API to render 
a file, right ?

The installed codecs differs heavily, and PC #2 booted in WinXP has a 
native WinXP installation, only the latest hotfixes and SP's installed, 
and it fails too...
All of them has the Fraunhofer MP3 decoder, isn't that all I should need 
? I even tried to move that codec to the highest priority in the system 
codec list without any success :(

I have tried with every, single option set up for the DeviceType 
property without luck. I have also tried using the mciSendCommand() 
function directly (i.e. not using the TMediaPlayer) in "string command 
mode", i.e. "open E:\\Test.mp3 type mpegvideo alias test", with the same 
results.

Why does this work on some machines and not in some other ?
Is it just another example of MS Windows not being compatible with itself ?

What I want to do is to open a small MP3-file to see if the PC can play 
it (and in most cases, it can't, grrr).
If the PC is able to play MP3's, I enable a menuitem that will play 
different, selectable MP3 HTTP Streams.

TIA,
/Mathias

PS. Don't tell me to use FMod... DS.