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."

Comments

ffdshow

[Shawn is an Asshole]

...is your answer.

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

Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

Mirror,

http://www.networkmirror.com/bUeMRHp2JQWoEqXH/www. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D19885.html

News.com has a good series of images available

[Vapor8]

News.com has a good series of images of the New Windows Media Player available:

http://news.com.com/2300-1025_3-6072445-1.html?par t=rss&tag=6072445&subj=news

Re:/.'ed

[r_glen]

Working link

Memory Leaks?

[i.of.the.storm]

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.

mirror

[winkydink]

http://www.networkmirror.com/bUeMRHp2JQWoEqXH/www. flexbeta.net/main/comments.php%3Fcatid%3D1%26shown ews%3D19885.html

OGG support (codec plug-ins)

[ergo98]

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.

Screenshots

[slashflood]

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.

Leak? MSFT was doing public demos last month

[NotQuiteReal]

This product was prominently displayed at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) convention last month.

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.

Re:Leaks what?

[Anubis350]

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!

Re:Feature Creep in WiMP

[anethema]

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.