wmp9 beta rocks

[SavagePaladin]

That is all.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp
98SE->XP
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ahem, if you need to move it go right ahead, i just figured it has more to do with windows than anything else :)

[Matthyahuw]

Is it going to screw my DivX? with their "digital rights management"?

[SavagePaladin]

judging by my divxes, no

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
Is it going to screw my DivX? with their "digital rights management"?

it doesn't, just uncheck everything under the privacy tab.

[StealthHawk]

does WMP offer full quality DivX playback and still have problems with VBR encoded mp3s? or are those horrible "problems" fixed. actually, old versions on WiMP(6.4 maybe) had DivX playback controls where you could increase the quality of playback...sadly later versions do not. i'm wary as to updating MS software(usually just gets slower and more bloated).

[|JuiceZ|]

I actually like this vers, and I dare say the divx playback perf has increase for the better. I would recommend snaggin' at least to give it a try.

[SavagePaladin]

I've never used VBR encoded mp3s, so I wouldn't know...I do use vbr wmas now anyway :)
and this is MUCH faster+better than 7.1

[Essense]

This version will not play my Divx back, furthermore there is no way to uninstall it. It sucks. Now im stuck with it and I have to use a 3rd party player to play my DivX.. Gee Thanks! I dident try it till I saw this thread, ah well you are not to blame, it's just annoying as hell.

Regards,
Mike

[[Corporal Dan]]

bah

6.4 for me

[The Baron]

Yeah, there's no way to uninstall it, and I was afraid it hosed my logon (after I logged on after installing it, two error messages popped up, and it was odd. but then it logged on fine)...

Wonder if there's a 3rd party utility to kill it.

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by Essense
This version will not play my Divx back, furthermore there is no way to uninstall it. It sucks. Now im stuck with it and I have to use a 3rd party player to play my DivX.. Gee Thanks! I dident try it till I saw this thread, ah well you are not to blame, it's just annoying as hell.

Regards,
Mike

weird, I've had no probs whatsoever playing any of my divx movies and it didn't even need to d/l any codec's :confused:

[Essense]

anytime I try to play a Divx movie it crashes the player. Some things iv'e noticed though, it launches extremely fast. Much faster then the old version. It also seems to have high quality streaming video.

Regards,
Mike

[ToastGodSupreme]

Originally posted by Essense
anytime I try to play a Divx movie it crashes the player. Some things iv'e noticed though, it launches extremely fast. Much faster then the old version. It also seems to have high quality streaming video.

Regards,
Mike

basically, it's getting back to v.6.4 in terms of efficiency... 8 was just sooooooo bloated, bad coding all around... I've been a huge fan of 6.4 for the longest time now.

but yeah, I do like this version... seems promising... don't like how it stole all my file associations even when I told it not to, but that fix was easy, no biggie.

umm, lets see, what else... i think that's it... can't wait to see final, this looks good so far. very sleek :)

btw, DivX works fine, I still have 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) which I use as well, AND:

If you went to microsoft's website, and read the little popup that came up when you attempted to dl it, you would see that microsoft made mention of uninstalling it :rolleyes:

[Essense]

I did indeed look at there uninstall instructions, you know what they where?

Use System Restore, that's it.

Guess what? I like many others have that sh1t disabled. It's a resource hog and more trouble then it's worth. That said, I did indeed try a beta product, and I did not check how to uninstall it before hand. However that dosent make it suck any less.

Regards,
Mike

[The Baron]

Yeah... I feel like calling MS and saying...

"I've got System Restore DISABLED, you JACKASS! How's about giving me a FRIGGIN' UNINSTALLER?!"

Well, now that I think about it... SP1 might be able to uninstall it with its middleware thing.... ? Guess we'll find out on Monday (or if I'm not lazy and install SP1 today :p )...

[nin_fragile14]

I got SP 1 today, it's somewhere on Microsoft's website, and you are able to uninstall WM9 if you need to.

[The Baron]

Rock On, all I wanted to know about it.