My thoughts on Win Media Player 7.....

[PC Freak]

Win Media Player 7 sucks!

Computer ran great.
Loaded Media Player 7.
Computer ran slow.
Uninstalled Media Player 7.
Computer ran great.

My $0.02

 

[Tauren]

I agree. I've been using it at work and it does not perform very well at all. Our fire wall is set up so as to not allow Real Player streaming media. I have to use it. Oh, well.

 

[PC Freak]

you can do what i did. switch to ver. 6.4 i'll stick with it.

 

[iamwiz82]

i like media player 7, my computer runs great, and i have not had it crash once. Actually, i am pushing a week and a half uptime right now on win98se =].

 

[RC5Bri]

It's a decent program, but I still like 6.4. Version 7 seems to incorporate too much, and I just don't like the new gui(even though you can modify it back to the old version)

 

[PC Freak]

iamwiz82 - mine didn't crash, just slowed down. Just run like it was trying to drive through mud. everything took more time, even clicking start - programs took a few more seconds.

 

[iamwiz82]

nope, i dont have that. I wouldnt expect it with 384 megs of ram either. i have had RC5 running before and after install, and i have nad no speed loss between the 2.

 

[PC Freak]

LOL. nope you shouldn't have much of a prob with 384megs. But still I myself have 192megs. I know it's not as much as most, but it's still up there.

 

[Wah]

win media player 7 doesn't let me skip ahead in movie files. I have to watch everything from the very beginning. I don't know why. 6.4 which is still on my computer runs fine except it doesn't run certain files. I have to use both. its retarded.

 

[SmiZ]

Any of you who don't like windows media player should try global divx player. You can get it at download.com as I think www.gdivx.com has been down for awhile. This player is much better than WMP if you ask me.

 

[iamwiz82]

wah, you have the latest version of MP? cuz i dont have that prob.

 

[Shudder]

I had to load WMP 7 to get some codecs, but other than that, I run the 6.4 version. It's still there. I just deleted wmplayer.exe and copied mplayer2.exe and renamed it.

Look at the exe size. wmplayer is about 350K and mplayer is 4.. Hmm, bloat?

 

[yakko]

Shudder,

What codecs? I have 6.4 and have all the codecs I need.


Wah,

What files?

 

[Supradude]

i think 7 is basically the gui/bloatware/codecs...

i just re-associate everything to mplayer2.exe, cause i like having the 7 gui to use the playlist sometimes...

 

[bigbootydaddy]

wah, are you talking about moving within a file?? like fast forward type thing??
if it is what you are talking about, then you have an incomplete asf file. aka no more pr0n