The only reason I care about it is that I have a folder full of vids that VLC and mplayer won't play. They all work great with WMP9. I think the new brushed metal look is too dull (what's wrong with just using the system appearance?) but other than that it works fine for me.
It just petends to freeze let it go and it will install.
Indeed. I was fooled by the Application Not Responding message when I clicked on the icon in the Dock. It installed just fine. But I still can't access any video on nhl.com. Damn You Windows Media Player! Damn You!
installer says it has 510 items remaining and says it's searching my hard drive... been doing so for 20 min. i've force quit and re-tried a few times. no dice.
Glad to see WMP9 finally for mac and it seems to be okay. One problem though is when site use streaming video stuff. the page now loads with WMP (which it didnt before) but it now come up with a message saying 'cannot open the file. Verify the path and filename are correct and try again'. This happend both in safari and explorer. Back to the P.C. to use these sites. Doesn't happen on all site though, just the ones which seem to open WMP built into the web page and not open WMP in its own window.
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I only dl'd it to listen to streams that don't use QT.....from what i can tell it looks exactly like the old version. I feel...uninspired.
DP 1.25 FW800 Panther.
Originally posted by InactionMan
I hope this means I can finally view all the WM crud on NHL.com. I'll have to wait a while to find, damned WM Installer just froze. Bleh.
It just petends to freeze let it go and it will install.
Originally posted by ryaxnb
It just petends to freeze let it go and it will install.
Indeed. I was fooled by the Application Not Responding message when I clicked on the icon in the Dock. It installed just fine. But I still can't access any video on nhl.com. Damn You Windows Media Player! Damn You!
This one did:
Best Play
This one didn't:
Cool shots
And this one didn't work either:
Creative Plays of the Week
Here's web page that comes up from those two links in Safari anyway:
http://windowsmedia.com/wmrm/wmrm.asp
Leave it to MS to turn a simple movie clip into something approaching rocket science.
installer says it has 510 items remaining and says it's searching my hard drive... been doing so for 20 min. i've force quit and re-tried a few times. no dice.
12" PB 867
640mb RAM / OSX 10.3
NeilyB
NeilyB
Originally posted by NeilyB
update: i let it continue "searching" for about 35 min and suddenly it said the install was sucessful, and indeed it was. Weird.
NeilyB
2nd time lucky for me. Try delete the installer prefs. One welcome bug fix, it now minimizes to the dock when 2x clicking the app title bar.
Hope this makes sense.
Philip