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Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X

Originally posted by gothamac
First you must un-install ALL earlier version of the program,

To Uninstall Windows Media Player 7 for Mac or Windows Media Player 6.3 for Mac

To uninstall previous versions of the Player:
1. Drag the Windows Media Player folder to the Trash.
2. Double-click the System folder, double-click the Preferences folder, and then drag the Windows Media Player Prefs file to the Trash.
3. Double-click the System folder, double-click the Extensions folder, and then drag the following files, if present, to the Trash:
? Acelp.net Decoder 05.0 kbps
? Acelp.net Decoder 06.5 kbps
? Acelp.net Decoder 08.5 kbps
? Acelp.net Decoder 16.0 kbps
? Mpeg Layer-3 Audio
? MPG4
? VivoActive G723 Decoder
4. On the Special menu, click Empty Trash, and then click OK.
5. On the Special menu, click Restart.
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I assume you are supposed to do the same to uninstall the OS X version (7.1) by hunting down the same files since these instructions refer to the Mac OS 9?

And what is about uninstalling Acelp.net Decoder (for v7.1) and a lot of people complaining that Acelp.net streams don't play in WMP 9? Does MS wants us to remove these codecs, but then not providing new ones, or do acelp.net streams don't play if you did not remove the old ones before the installation?

I am confused.
 
Still can't play some divx files on the wmp on the mac, that easily played on my p.c. at work.:mad: The divx says it need wmf3 codec but that isn't supported in wmp for osx. way to go MS!
 
Get a clue

Originally posted by X86BSD
Don't hold your breath. Ogg is dead except for geeks living in their mom's basement.

Seriously, nice idea, and im sure it was technically better then <insert format you hate here> but it's dead. I seriously doubt you will ever see get adopted en masse.
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Get off your Mac high horse. Just because Steve Jobs isn't using it doesn't mean its dead. In fact, it can't die. Its open source. As long as the code is out there, it will live.

In fact, many games out now are using Ogg Vorbis for their sound because they don't want to pay the licensing fees associated with the other formats.
 
Re: Get a clue

Originally posted by jocknerd
Get off your Mac high horse. Just because Steve Jobs isn't using it doesn't mean its dead. In fact, it can't die. Its open source. As long as the code is out there, it will live.

In fact, many games out now are using Ogg Vorbis for their sound because they don't want to pay the licensing fees associated with the other formats.
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Don't be so insulted, are you one of those geeks living in your mother's basement?

Ogg will NEVER be a viable format in the downloadable digital music arena, so yeah, it's dead in most practical ways, and WMA just offers a dead end!
 
Like some dude said before, we have to keep in mind QuickTime for windows. It's not the "greatest app for windows". I'm guessing it's not easy to port apps to other platforms.

Frankly, in my point of view, Microsoft has done a pretty okay job at porting windows media player. We just keep hounding them because they're Microsoft and we sit here high and proud on our "mac horse".

As Mac users, most of our media is going to played in QuickTime and iTunes, which both rock. For most of us, we're going to use wmp format sparingly. As long as we have an app that plays our wmp media, we should be happy. Now that it's supposedly plugged-in into Safari, it's even better.

Sympathy to those who actually do use the program regularly. If these slow down issues, and acl-something.net problems are real. Myself...I'm dandy, props to Microsoft for making an okay player.
 
Originally posted by AppleMatt
sidenote: Anyone else noticed a performance drop with Panther and QT 6.4 when playing massive QuickTime (*.mov) files? Previously on Jag the 96MB Matrix Reloaded trailer would play flawlessly full-screen, but now it jumps in all my Panther installations :(.
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yep..as a matter of fact, I ended up throwing that one away and saving one of the smaller ones. shesh...
 
Originally posted by Blaaze
Like some dude said before, we have to keep in mind QuickTime for windows. It's not the "greatest app for windows". I'm guessing it's not easy to port apps to other platforms.

Frankly, in my point of view, Microsoft has done a pretty okay job at porting windows media player. We just keep hounding them because they're Microsoft and we sit here high and proud on our "mac horse".

As Mac users, most of our media is going to played in QuickTime and iTunes, which both rock. For most of us, we're going to use wmp format sparingly. As long as we have an app that plays our wmp media, we should be happy. Now that it's supposedly plugged-in into Safari, it's even better.

Sympathy to those who actually do use the program regularly. If these slow down issues, and acl-something.net problems are real. Myself...I'm dandy, props to Microsoft for making an okay player.
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I can't agree with you. It's not an okay player. It's a less than okay player that works, but that doesn't make it *okay*.

Quicktime on Windows must have gone bad at some point after I stopped using it, because I last used Quicktime on Windows when it was still at version 2.0, and it was fine, just fine, so I'm always mystified when people say QT for Windows is so bad, because back then I never had one single problem with it.
 
quicktime on windows

I was helping my mother move into a new apartment, and decided to update her quicktime to 6.4 .... everything worked/played fine as we watched 2003 keynote. This is on her compaq presario PII 350 mhz. I was only disappointed I couldn't load up iTunes for her. Quicktime 6.4 works just fine in windows 98.
 
Most of the problems in OS X seem to center on old files from WMP 7 being left in the Library>Internet Plug-Ins folder. A simple procedure is to delete all the WMP related files in Internet Plug-Ins, reinstall WMP 9, and see if there is an improvement.
 
Originally posted by Doctor Q
I read the WMP Privacy Statement very carefully. They say all the right things. I like to say I don't trust Microsoft, but from what I've seen, Real Player is more likely to keep to touch with its owner organization than Windows Media Player is.
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On Windows, I call RealOne The RealOne to avoid. I depise, hate, and loathe, the bad, stinky, and annoying RealOne player from merciless Real. I would only install RealOne if forced to on PCs. RealPlayer is bad, but better. You can get it by clicking sys. requirements at the bottom of one of the RealOne pages last time I checked.
"RealOne... the RealOne to avoid"
"RealOne is Real(R)ly bad"
"Real(R), get Real, kill RealOne"
"Real[ly]One[of the worst ones]"
"RealOne Real(R)ly advertises"
"Get Real... don't download RealOne"
I'm a "Real" Real hater
 
Originally posted by Lucifer_sam
Still can't play some divx files on the wmp on the mac, that easily played on my p.c. at work.:mad: The divx says it need wmf3 codec but that isn't supported in wmp for osx. way to go MS!
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WMP9 doesn't play files encoded with WMV3 either - and most of the WMP files I encounter online are.

*sigh* Was there ever a more appropriate self-inflicted acronym than "WMP"?
 
Originally posted by silvergunuk
If it means I can watch low quality porn downloaded from various P2P clients, it's fine by me.
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i agree
(not necessarily about the porn part)

newer versions of wmp for mac means more codecs for mac and that means I can watch all of the Simpsons episodes my friend downloads from KaZaA for me without all of the trouble of using qtplayer and downloading mplayerX and vlc and some old OS 9 thing i had to download to watch a dvix version of lord of the rings.

i am amazed when my windows friend who knows very little about what he's doing on a computer downloads some video off kazaa and it opens in wmp and instantly downloads pretty much any codec he needs.


edit: oh. (in regards to the previous few posts)
 
Originally posted by ryaxnb
On Windows, I call RealOne The RealOne to avoid. I depise, hate, and loathe, the bad, stinky, and annoying RealOne player from merciless Real. I would only install RealOne if forced to on PCs. RealPlayer is bad, but better. You can get it by clicking sys. requirements at the bottom of one of the RealOne pages last time I checked.
"RealOne... the RealOne to avoid"
"RealOne is Real(R)ly bad"
"Real(R), get Real, kill RealOne"
"Real[ly]One[of the worst ones]"
"RealOne Real(R)ly advertises"
"Get Real... don't download RealOne"
I'm a "Real" Real hater
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Why?
 
MusicMatch / iPod

A little off topic:

Can anyone confirm that the iPod now comes with iTunes for Windows instead of Music Match? The Apple Store still lists MusicMatch.
 
Originally posted by kotonk
DRM is still problematic (some files still throw you to their license page and do not play the content).
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Yes. I have the Do Amazing Things DVD-ROM, and it will not play. It kicks you into a webpage that says it cannot authorize the playback.

Too bad. I wanted to see how the HD versions of the BMW films play on a Dual G5.
 
Originally posted by rdowns
Tell me about it. Hired a company to produce a video for my companies web site and I insisted on all 3 player compatibility. The developer was not going to include Quicktime.
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I'd rather use Quicktime or WMA then RAM files. You get so many friggin ads on Realplayer and I don't want to pay for the upgrade. bastards!
 
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