Re: WMP11b2: DVD behavior

I apologize, then, because I misunderstood your role. I thought that you
were here to relay bug reports to the developers. It seems like you've
been doing a lot of that in this newsgroup in the past.

My confusion comes from the fact that there *is* a way to stop WMP11
from handling DVD discs (via the "File Types" options), but WMP is being
selective about how it chooses to interpret that setting.

It's frustrating, because WMP11 is so close to being an outstanding
player.

So, again, I apologize.

mbg.

In article <u6UA8yP1GHA.1252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
zachd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

*frown* I deliberately didn't respond to your questions in this specific
area initially because I didn't know jack about them and I figured it would
be insulting to you to offer the non-knowledge I have in this area. I know
nothing about nor have I ever had anything at all to do with this field
(WMP's handling of auto-insert notification without regards to AutoPlay).
So I answered the question that I knew something about. You pressed for an
answer, and while I thought about not responding, I figured you could
respect a gentle "hey, you're asking for a podiatrist, I work over in
pathology"-type answer.

Respectfully, if you don't want to press against areas of my personal
knowledge where I just don't know an answer, don't press for answers that
I'm clearly not giving. I work my tail off and you using my friendly
good-faith response as a chance to insult the work of other people is kind
of mean-spirited. =)

If you're feeling that there are many "small, silly mistakes", you really
need to get that information to Microsoft. I suspect that if I went to
product support and asked them how much feedback they've gotten about the
auto-insert notification question you raise, they would likely respond that
it simply hasn't been an area of user concern. So if you want to press for
changes like this, make sure product support knows. I took a couple top
user requests and put them in the player. This has not been a top user
request, sorry.


You live statistically in the top 5% of users, or something like that. The
80% of a billion users who DO want (need?) the DVD to AutoPlay and
foreground when the DVD is inserted generally understandably outweigh you,
especially given that YOU can figure this out, and THEY would be extremely
challenged here. This is really important. You and I are super-geniuses in
the computer world compared to most people. You can handle this, they
can't. So the question then becomes why there is no explicit off switch (vs
adjusting AutoInsert Notification yourself), and that response is easy:
because yet another button is yet another source of confusion for those
users.

-Zach

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