Re: WMP 11 (Vista) can't stream audio

And, besides that, why is it Microsoft's or the Windows Media Player product team's job to deprecate any protocol? If providers use the protocol, then the player should support the protocol. The player should play what's there, not try to control what is out there. If the Windows Media Player product team decides to quit supporting CDs, are CD makers supposed to quit making them?


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:teta03t8ispi4f3611th42paeckgaq8nc9@xxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:23:00 -0700, BillS
<BillS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't pay for the support and I would have billed them twice their charge
for wasting my time! No apologies either but I can live with that.

Intriguing your note regarding the WMP team dropping support for mms. I
wasn't aware of that. Maybe it explains why I don't have any problem with
older versions of the player on my laptop running XP.


Oh, it was documented repeatedly in all versions of WMP from 9 and
later (i.e. 4 years ago) that it was a "depracated" protocol.

I dunno why Dale's kicking up this fuss, it's not like content
providers didn't have notice of this change. Depracated in this
context was clearly indicated that support would be removed in a
future version of media player - which is this version right now.

Sure it's a PITA to have to explain this to users, but I would have
expected 4 years notice to be sufficient for many provideds to migrate
their service.

It happens when I review website player embedding code, that many of
them (over 60%) are still using embedding code designed for media
player 6.4, from back in 1999/2000, and that's only a fluke it still
works in WMP11. People are *regularly* building sites based on
tutorials over 6 years old (eg webmonkey), despite my efforts to get
them to use modern XHTML, CSS and OO Javascript in their builds.

It's really near impossible to tell end service providers to update
their sites on a 1 to 1 basis, and most clearly never check back or
review their sites - so this change isn't really a surprise that their
sites are breaking now. It's the content providers who are at fault
for not keeping up to date.


Cheers - Neil
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