Re: WMP11b2: DVD behavior


"mbg" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Ah, no. I'm a developer myself. I generally try to cherry-pick important
bugs and verify that they're being taken care of, and if time allows take a
couple top user features each release and shepherd them into the player. As
regards the latter, v11 has a way to turn off the deskband flyout and a way
to have always on top just in skin mode. I'd have done more of that small
stuff if I had time, but I've been putting in doctor's hours for most of the
past year(s?).

Generally my establishing myself in any fashion as a conduit for bug reports
is really horribly bad, since it's something I wouldn't be able to maintain.
It's very much not my job: it's just something I do in the spare seconds I
have here and there, and those efforts take away from a) doing my own work
or b) having a personal life. =)

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.

Right, that dialog is code I wrote, so I'm very aware of how that all works.
That's just file association code that doesn't touch AutoPlay / AutoInsert
code at all. I think you're curious about AutoInsert handling, which isn't
related to that dialog and could not be touched by WMP's File Types dialog.
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So, again, I apologize.

I definitely understand and respect passion. It'd be a boring world without
it. =)

-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


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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