The joy of Windows Media Player (1 Viewer)

[babydoll_]

OK, on my old comp I had WMP v9, and sometimes when I double click on a file (video file, mainly), WMP wouldn't pop up and open... it would take a few efforts for it to open... it didn't say that WMP was running when I checked in the System thing (when you press CTRL+ALT+DEL)

Then I got a new comp, with WMP v10... same problem....

Any ideas? I'm on WinXP

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

ure mouse ok? :|

but just find a windows media player alternative which may use less resources?

 

[Person]

err, right click and open with? or choose program then tick always use this program to open these files?

think it should be the same for xp, not that i use it >_>

 

[redslert]

use "media player classic"
google for it!

 

[Winston]

Well you see WMP 10 is still in technical beta, and isn't intended to fully operate without much problems.

 

[Ragerunner]

I got that problem too. Still hasn't been fixed. But for me it is still running in the task manager.

It's either wmplayer.exe that is still running even after I closed it, or wisptis.exe (which I believe is a tiny virus which I've tried every detector and finds nothing).

It always happens with my winXP. And only recently my win2K started doing it. Yes I use both OS.

 

[Winston]

I got that problem too. Still hasn't been fixed. But for me it is still running in the task manager.

It's either wmplayer.exe that is still running even after I closed it, or wisptis.exe (which I believe is a tiny virus which I've tried every detector and finds nothing).

It always happens with my winXP. And only recently my win2K started doing it. Yes I use both OS.

It sounds like a sporadical issue, and is rather ambigious, i've lodged it to MS already.

 

[McLake]

Use iTunes ...

 

[RCMasterAA]

Or WinAmp.

 

[jhakka]

Well you see WMP 10 is still in technical beta, and isn't intended to fully operate without much problems.

Any idea when v10 will be really released?

 

[Winston]

Any idea when v10 will be really released?

There's no official RTW/RTM/Gold release date announced.

 

[babydoll_]

Or WinAmp.

Too dodgy to use with video files IMO...

 

[RCMasterAA]

Too dodgy to use with video files IMO...

Ah yes that's true but I delegate that duty to Windows Media Player and DVD Players.

 

[r0wlzii]

Winamp is a horrible program, only good for visualisations. It uses more RAM. ALOT more RAM than WMP ver.1+

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

press start---> run then type in "mplayer2" ---> it works wonders, provided u have the codecs

 

[sunny]

press start---> run then type in "mplayer2" ---> it works wonders, provided u have the codecs

redsalert pointed one out before, but media player classic is very good. The GUI is the same as media player 6.4 (mplayer2), but it has a lot more extra features (not to the extent of WMP9 or 10) and wide file filetype support.