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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2005Tiger and Windows Media Player 9
I just installed OS 10.4 (Archive and Install) and all seemed well until I attempted to open Windows Media Player. I get a message saying that it, WMP, has unexpectantly quit. Numerous attempts yields the same result. This is true for new or old files. Any help? Thanks. Thanks to Macworld.com/ forum, I am posting the solution for the above problem for others who may need it. Discard the file Windows Media Player Prefs located in the Home>Library>Preferences. That's it. : Thanks to Macworld.com/ forum, I am posting the solution for the above : problem for others who may need it. Discard the file Windows Media : Player Prefs located in the Home>Library>Preferences. That's it. Or even better, use VLC Media Player and foresake the Dark Side, Luke. --Fred I use Windows Media Player to listen to radio stations (KFI or KOGO). Will VLC Media Player allow this? I hate the Dark Side, but whatcha gonna do? > I use Windows Media Player to listen to radio stations (KFI or KOGO). > Will VLC Media Player allow this? I hate the Dark Side, but whatcha > gonna do? VLC is opensource and "clean". You can download it and try without hurting anything on your system. In fact, it supports more stuff than Quicktime does so downloading it and make it sit in Applications folder won'T harm anything. As a radiopass (real broadband) user I admire them and keep their application updated. Well, in my case, VLC won't work since the stuff I listen is secure/paid. I think you give it and the mplayer (get both from versiontracker etc) a chance. Current trend is iTunes which is a mp3 stream, don't be surprised if your radios support it in a month or so. Another huge favor from Apple to industry. They can't ignore a hundred million downloaded/installed applications opportunity. ;) In fact, if I were you, I'd act like a hopeless mac newbie user and ask why iTunes didn't run when I clicked on their link *g* Ilgaz Ocal > : Thanks to Macworld.com/ forum, I am posting the solution for the above > : problem for others who may need it. Discard the file Windows Media [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > --Fred Using another application to open the lame, evil, closed wmp 9 files is half of the solution. Real solution is to use standards based offerings which actually cares about your system and fixes bugs. Like Realplayer 10 (now Helix based) , Quicktime, mpeg variants and even DivX I mean, more we select the "wmedia format only sites", more it gets power. Like a movie :) Interesting tricks happen, e.g. Yahoo defaults to wmedia format while they have a huge Realserver there, needs customer to select by hand. See how important their format usage for them? If I was working at Yahoo, I'd really investigate the coder responsible for that default choice. ;) Ilgaz Ocal |
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