Re: Playing Windows Media Player 9 content with anything but Windows Media Player 9

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From: MS (ms_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:25:01 -0700

I use Media Player Classic for most of my media playing. It works good for
the most part, will play almost anything, much quicker than WMP9, and is
free.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:end5h05dop17akj4m21ls45d6n5mg58762@4ax.com...
> Well you could try out 'media player classic' which I haven't tried
> and to be honest have no idea whether you'd come back with even more
> of a 'horror story' about that. Read up here and make your own mind up
> http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Jan/13/media_player_classic.html
>
> If it breaks your system, I told u so, so don't bother me about it ;-)
>
> Or you could go down the supported official MS release for 98SE I
> guess. Please do grab the 98SE version if you do.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx
>
> CHeers - Neil
>
> On 5 Aug 2004 09:14:59 -0700, andy_nominous@yahoo.com (andy) wrote:
>
> >I am using Windows 98 Second Edition with Windows Media Player version
> >7.00.00.1956 on a Pentium III 500 mhz machine with 128 MB of RAM. I
> >have read so many horror stories about using Windows media player 9
> >that I am hesitant to upgrade. My only issue is that increasingly I
> >run ito content that "requires windows media player 9 particularly
> >.wmv files. Does anyone know of any alternative for viewing this
> >content?
>

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