Windows Media Player 9 for OS X is 'coming soon'
Posted by malebolgia on 06 September 2003 - 15:05 · 37 comments & 1885 views
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#1 Posted by aaron901 on 06 Sep 2003 - 16:07
- finally...
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#2 Posted by Coolme on 06 Sep 2003 - 16:19
- gee.. how long has it been?
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#3 Posted by WS togermano on 06 Sep 2003 - 16:20
- wow macintosh is still alive?!?!?!?!?! media player classic is better thou to bad it isn't for macintosh
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#4 Posted by Dashel on 06 Sep 2003 - 18:01
- Any word on iTunes for Windows?
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#5 Posted by Xero on 06 Sep 2003 - 18:04
- hey if it looks the same it will be smoother edges and shadows
that i wanna see
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#6 Posted by richcz3 on 06 Sep 2003 - 18:16
- I regret ever updating some of my machines to WMP9.
If it runs as badly as it does in XP, how will it run on another OS.
Palllleeeeasee. Warning to Mac folk, steer clear.
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#6.2 Posted by richcz3 on 06 Sep 2003 - 19:12
- On the three machines I updated, it doesn't recognize some of the codecs it recognized by previous versions. Some files that played with no problems im MP7 or MP8 cause instability in MP9. In general it crashes at will when scrolling the time bar.
The fix so far was is using the much older media player as the default player.
C/Program FilesWindows/Media Player/mplayer2.exe
I associate the file types that cause the most problems to play with it.
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#6.3 Posted by Skyfrog on 06 Sep 2003 - 19:19
- Might want to give Media Player Classic a try. You can play almost everything with it, even QuickTime and Real media (provided you have the codecs installed)
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#7 Posted by Xero on 06 Sep 2003 - 18:18
- i love wmp9 its the best if u ask me
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#8 Posted by ~~NeYo~~ on 06 Sep 2003 - 19:08
- WMP9 was NICE, on XP, in my experience .. i liked it. (as WMP's have gone!
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#9 Posted by slapnuts_ox on 06 Sep 2003 - 19:11
- i heard rumors of a linux port also......who knows
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#9.1 Posted by kal-ky on 06 Sep 2003 - 21:30
- Yeah right. MPlayer plays already everything you throw at it (including asf, wmv and mov). Why would MS want to have a Linux mediaplayer?
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#9.2 Posted by slapnuts_ox on 07 Sep 2003 - 02:14
- i didn't say I wanted a linux wmp9 port i just said that I heard of rumors is all. I love mplayer.....wmp9 is too bloated anyways. Thats all.
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#10 Posted by phen!x on 06 Sep 2003 - 21:36
- They always think of something new
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#11 Posted by aaron901 on 07 Sep 2003 - 00:18
- yeah you finally came out of the cave you used to live in? great..
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#11.1 Posted by WS togermano on 07 Sep 2003 - 12:54
QUOTE (#1.0) yeah you finally came out of the cave you used to live in? great..
What grave? i think linux has more apps/games then macintosh now
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#12 Posted by jedimasterk on 07 Sep 2003 - 01:19
- What about Windows Media Player for Linux!!. Oh I forgot Microcrap hates Linux. The only thing Linux is good for is saving our webpages from hackers!!. Ha Ha!.
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#13 Posted by jedimasterk on 07 Sep 2003 - 01:21
- What about Windows Media Player for Linux!!. Oh I forgot Microcrap hates Linux. The only thing Linux is good for is saving our webpages from hackers!!. Ha Ha!.
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#13.1 Posted by Danrarbc641 on 07 Sep 2003 - 04:52
- A) Microsoft was working on IE for *nix not long ago IIRC, they did pull the plug though so the point is moot.
B) It's not like Microsoft went around asking conent delivery companies which OS they use, they chose the one that could protect them best. It just so happens that company uses Linux servers, I doubt Microsoft cared.
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#14 Posted by tiger2k on 07 Sep 2003 - 02:38
- WTF, why is microsoft making alot of their apps available for mac, not that i mind but i don't see many mac software going over to windows, and when their is, its usually not 1/3 of what it is on the mac, like quicktime player
and seriously the name is "windows media player" ment to be runned on windows, what are they going to call it now, "windows and mac media player"
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#14.1 Posted by Skyfrog on 07 Sep 2003 - 03:33
- I would imagine that they are going to continue to call it Windows Media Player, just as they always have with the previous Mac versions.
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#14.2 Posted by aaron901 on 07 Sep 2003 - 04:23
- because they have to make it. there's no other software that plays wmp9 on Mac.
and i hope you know there's a file format called windows media, wmp plays it so it's called windows media player. just like mp3 player plays mp3, makes sense now? btw it's just a name. get over it. -
#14.3 Posted by Danrarbc641 on 07 Sep 2003 - 04:54
QUOTE because they have to make it. there's no other software that plays wmp9 on Mac.
Actually isn't it possible to run MPlayer on OS X-
#14.5 Posted by nacs on 07 Sep 2003 - 15:34
QUOTE (#14.4) mplayer doesn't play wmp9.
Actually, mplayer plays WMP9 (and just about every other mnedia format) just fine.-
#14.6 Posted by tomaras on 07 Sep 2003 - 19:29
- Are you sure that it plays WM "Video" 9 on a Mac? Not audio, but VIDEO.
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#14.7 Posted by tuxracer on 07 Sep 2003 - 20:07
QUOTE (#14.6) Are you sure that it plays WM "Video" 9 on a Mac? Not audio, but VIDEO.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/info.html
"Windows Media Video v7 (WMV1), v8 (WMV2) and v9 (WMV3) used in .wmv files"
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#15 Posted by MeshKent on 07 Sep 2003 - 02:51
- heh i wonder if windows media player on mac will be as incredibly ****ty as quicktime is on pc.
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#16 Posted by Xenobane on 07 Sep 2003 - 12:11
- WMP9 is the best WMP ever(well, I mean currently).
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#17 Posted by kainashi on 07 Sep 2003 - 13:46
- apple users should love this.
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#18 Posted by kyro on 07 Sep 2003 - 20:14
- this ****ing idiotic .. Apple produces OS and MS provides app for it .. whats cant Mac develop its own app .. Office and now WM ... BTW i am not a FAN BOY of any one
I just got pissed of .. MS kicked in Apples nuts .. then when it was down it bought its share (Evil Bil) .. to controll it .. and now its developing app for it .. soon Bill would release unrepairable bugs so apple goes down .. -
#18.1 Posted by apa1exakis on 08 Sep 2003 - 15:47
- haha, ive never heard something so funny.
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