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Thank you Alistairlee -
Although I'm not happy with the answer per se -- I need to use Media Player -- I understand the resolution. What is really weird is the fact that it worked sometimes, but not always. Is there any rhyme or reason for that? [For example, I use a website that has streaming videos (for education) when I am sharing that website, and then play an embedded, streaming video, it *sometimes* will play in Connect. If I could figure out what the variable is, I could attempt to make it work all the time...

What about using a different .wmv player? Are they all as restrictive as Windows Media Player?

Thank you for your time and help on this. I appreciate it!
Penny

Thank you Alan, I will search for that best practices paper to see if it offers more insight. Thus far it seems I can use a different video player (open source) and it works more consistently. Can't say *why* but it does!

Thank you for your time!

ppearson wrote:

I have several presentations coming up that will require playing different multi-media files (.mp3, .mov, .wmv) and sharing multimedia type programs like Audacity, MovieMaker, iMovie etc. and I sure would like to get consistent results. Any help is appreciated!

This is exactly our situation.  We need to be able to demonstrate, in real time, how to use audio applications such as Audacity, Logic, and Reason.  But there seems to be no audio passed from an app when screen sharing it in Connect.

While I have read Mongerryan's workaround in this forum, that does not seem to allow the presenter sharing their screen to talk through their mic at the same time.  Both are an absolute necessity for us.

We can not prepare all our demos in Captivate ahead of time, as our need is to be able to answer student questions, in a live format, about how to do a process in the app using a screen share to demo it.  Not to mention that we are all working on Macs, so Captivate is out.

Sure, cranking the computer speakers and getting that to carry across the presenter's mic might work, but the quality would be poor.  Creating an elaborate mixer setup with both computer sound and presenter's mic feeding into a common source to be selected in the Microphone setup wizard would be a little out of reach for most of our faculty, and possibly prone to user errors.

Any help in this area would be appreciated.
-Craig

you should know that Windows Media Player will do  this purposely  because they want to restrict their clients for copying video with their secondary output option.  Even without the black screen issue, sharing video using a screen share isn't typically ideal.