7MC and Sky Player

Morning All,
Ok I know that I'm missing something but for the life of me I can't remember what it is. So any help will be great.
A few days ago I had to do a clean install of my PC & Laptop, I then ran MC setup and got it working np at all, but alas the sky player option is now missing from both.
I've looked online and found many help pages to sort this out but non work for me:-
I turned MC on and off and rebooted, I checked that GB was in the reg entry for Country, I used the download button in MC, I removed all files from ehome folder, I rebooted after each of the above. But alas still a big NO NO.
Carried out what was on THE Greenbutton site and sky player site
So please what am I missing.
Iechyd Da

Hi Paul i have had the same problem as you, i have been googling this problem for well over a week and been getting nowhere, been checking registry, regional settings, followed the green button post for people having similar problems but with netflix and using a new dns, deleting ehome folders, running mcupdate as administrator - all got me nowhere

But last night i managed to solve it after trying everything
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/97576.aspx?PageIndex=3
Read Holidayboy's post in the link (5th post down on page 3) also read acr2011 post in the next reply - they have been trying to help, finally read my post (sorethumbs) about how it worked for me near the end.

Do you have MSN video and Sky Player thumbnails within the guide but clicking on them does nothing??

Hope you get it working please let me know i'd be really interested to see how you get on

ps who is your broadband provider?

Exactly same prob as me, yet to find someone with same symptoms trawling through google.

And guess what....

I'm on O2 as well

Well Well that is very very odd. I was wiv Sky BB when I upgraded from Vista to Win7 and I never had the problem then. I wonder what will happen now if we change back the dns.
I think I will try that this afternoon just for the hell of it, will post back the results
Iechyd Da
PS
I'll have to get my laptop back and check on there cos I did a clean install on there also to get rid of W7 SP1 RC and I also noticed that we are using different version's of Win7

Paul what steps exactly did you take to get it back and working?
do you have a tv tuner (satellite/freeview) installed?
Yeah be interested to see what happens once you put automatic DNS back on (i think thats what you meant you were going to do) i'm guessing as its now installed (Sky Player/MSN) you should be ok, but try sky player with auto DNS see if it errors in any way. I'm at work at moment so can't do any testing with you!

Ok, I'm using an USB Avermedia A850 TV Tuner. All I do was remove the Obtain DNS Addy Auto (Fig1) and put these in instead (Fig2), Nothing else.
I just changed my dns back to auto and Sky Player & MSN was no show again, so changed it back to Fig2 and I'm up and running again. This is very very odd as before my clean re-install all was working ok.
Will have to look into this a bit more. I'll go on the O2 forum soon and ask.

Iechyd Da

I'll have a look when i get home again tonight.
So you didn't need to re-run the setup in media center?? interesting because i had to.
Last night was bit pushed for time but what i did was to make an Acronis image backup with sky player working. I then reloaded my previous image where i had all my channels order edited but no sky player to see if i could get the player working without having to run the setup wizard again and lose my channels. I'll see if it worked tonight but it seems to definitely be the dns setting as we've concluded.

No I never I changed the DNS settings and ticked the validate settings on exit, it then told me unable to detect / Fix a fault as non was present, Then I started 7MC and the the sky and MSN icon's where present, Clicked on sky and it came back as checking for updates, all ok clicked next and signed in and went to Sports1 live and on the Top screen told me that my PC has been registerd as my main PC and away I went. Still can't find any infor as to why it only seems to be O2 DNS causing problems on the web.
Good luck tonite.
Iechyd Da