Enable and Specify streaming media protocol

This tweak will enable streaming media protocol and allow you to specify that what all protocol should be active for receiving stream media. If this tweak is enabled then you can specify that ahead mentioned protocols would be enabled or not. Multicast, UDP in this you can also mention the ports, TCP and HTTP.

Operating System Windows 2000 / XP / 2003

• Open your registry
• Go to HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayerProtocols
• create or modify dword value called "WindowsMediaStreamingProtocols"
• set value as 0 to disable and 1 to enable this tweak.
• For specifying protocols
  • go to HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer\Protocols
  • for multicast protocol
    1. Create a new dword called "MultiCast"
    2. set its value to 0 or 1 for disable\enable
  • For UDP Protocol
    1. Create a new dword called "udp"
    2. set its value 0 or 1 for disable\enable
    3. for specifying ports for udp create a new string key "UdpPorts"
    4. specify ports as string in this value
  • For TCP protocol
    1. Create a new dowrd called "Tcp"
    2. set its value 0 or 1 to disable\enable
  • For Http protocol
    1. Create a new dword called "Http"
    2. set its value to 0 or 1 for disable\enable
• restart windows media player for setting to take effect.