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New Windows Media Player Leaks
TacoLL writes "A new version of Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 11, is set to be made public on Wednesday, however, it has found its way into the hands of internet users before its public release. Flexbeta has some early screenshots of the next Media Player for Windows users."
MPlayer has been out for a while
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http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/
Supports just about everything in use and works great. I use the builds from here when trapped in Windows:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
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Mirror,
. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D19885.html
http://www.networkmirror.com/bUeMRHp2JQWoEqXH/www
You can get MPlayer for windows.
I have a PIII running Windows 98SE with Windows Media Player 9 - it is very slow to load.
Bloat at its finest. . .
Most of the time that I open Windows Media Player, it is to watch a quick video clip - for this, I don't need the whole music guide and library to load.
This really pisses me off. I use iTunes to manage my music library (got an iPod), but WMP detects my podcasts trying to download and wants to takeover. I stream some radio shows from the east coast (I love JV & Elvis on 92.3 FreeFM in NY, they use to be in SF). Because of this WMP is running for a few hours per day, but it always tries to fight with my iTunes.
It would be nice if Microsoft would make two separate players - one to quickly play short clips, and one to manage my library.
They have one, but it doesn't work with the latest windows codecs. It's called mplayer2. Go to start/run and type mplayer2, the original media player. I still use it from time to time on my Pentium M 2.13 GHz w/ 2 gigs of ram laptop.
Can I get an eye poke?
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News.com has a good series of images of the New Windows Media Player available:
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http://news.com.com/2300-1025_3-6072445-1.html?pa
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you could always give Media Player Classic (aka guliverkli) a go. I've found it to be much better.
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-Drew
I don't know if this is what was meant, but it seems that WMP11 starts up very fast and at first uses far less RAM than 10, (12MB vs 18MB on mine) but then jumps to around 42MB during playback. But I like the fast startup more than I can actually feel the effects of the RAM usage increasing, so I guess it's a good tradeoff. Of course, I hardly even use media players in the first place, so my POV may be different from someone who has it running all the time.
All your base are belong to Wii.
http://www.networkmirror.com/bUeMRHp2JQWoEqXH/www. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D19885.html
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Any word on OGG support?
While media player is delivered with updated codec, the shell is largely codec agnostics. There are already numerous available codec packs/interfaces for playing ogg with WMP.
You can find the screenshots here.
No, seriously. Am I the only one who thinks that the screenshots are rather unimpressive? I clicked through every single shot and read the description of the features. I can't find anything special.
It seems like the main thrust of the (very large) MSFT exhibit was VOD (video on demand), but WMP 11 was prominently displayed, along with a promised new buy-your-music-online program... the partner's name escapes me at the moment.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
... it's been available to everybody that's ever had their hands on a beta version of Vista?
Maybe I'm missing how this is news, but I saw these screenshots months ago.
All too true.. Up until recently.
I've actually been pleasantly surprised with the last couple firefox updates. At last it doesnt leak memory like a sieve. Finally (*FINALLY*) it actually seems to release memory as you close tabs (eventually). I dont have to worry about leaving firefox running for a few days and having it crash!
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Click the "View Options" button and switch to Details view instead of the Icon or Detailed Tiles view....
As of Tue 15 of Jun, 2004 it was almost unusable. Now it works fine. Just make sure you build with high accuracy tremor or use libavcodec for vorbis.
Actually it seems to be little known that if you run "mplayer2" instead of the normal mplayer, you get a mplayer 6 style interface with all the codecs of mplayer.
Of course, if you are in the know this much, you might also know about media player classic, which is a vastly supperior media player anyways. It also has a media player 6.4 look to it.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Don't tell anyone! Shhh! VLC 0.8.5 was released recently -- downloads are something close to 1 per second. The list of supported formats is pretty incredible ...
:)
Plus, Windows Media Whatever doesn't work on my Linux box
timothy
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You'll enjoy WMP's View:Enhancements:Play Speed Settings, which is where frame stepping and reverse playback live.
Yes you can. It's the link on this page that says "QuickTime Standalone Installer".
I'm seeing more of that... like the recent WSJ rejection of all Linux because the distro tried would not work iTunes (and a few "complex" M$Office docs). It's too bad people don't see the magic combination of:
The whole DRM fiasco is so avoidable and life without it is so much better. If work forces you to use Windoze, it sucks to be you but you don't have to let that take over your entertainment and home life.
By the way, the GUI that Xine makes does all the cool stuff from keyboard shortcuts you want from a video player. If you want a real video editor, go for kino or cinerella. M$ will never give you any of that any more than M$ Word can be used for publishing.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
This happened last weekend, I had it by the end of friday night! Its preaty slick in view, nice interface, URGE is good, shame ipods can't be synced as iTunes is the worst player for memory resources.