Michaeldcp Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Is there a way to extract the media player used in vista and use it on XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rbez Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I believe its the same version isn't it? It's build 3717. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted July 31, 2005 Veteran Share Posted July 31, 2005 The only two differences I see are: - Volume control is different, and VERY unintuitive. - When the titlebar/menubar is hidden, and you maximize the window, the titlebar (and menubar) doesn't appear, unlike XP's WMP 10. There's no real reason to use Vista's media player under XP; besides that, most, if not all Vista applications won't run under XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Vista MP10 is fairly different than XP's. A big example of this is you can't search for music through the old Tools > Search for Media... anymore. WMP10/Vista gathers your Music library based on the Windows Search Engine unless you manually add watched folders. It looks as it requires a lot of the new functionality found only in Vista right now and most likely can't be easily ported. You'll just have to wait till november for the first beta of WMP11 for Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klop Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 The version of Windows Media Player 10 in XP is 3802 and Vista 3717 :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustNotSleep Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 The version of Windows Media Player 10 in XP is 3802 and Vista 3717 :blink: 586302912[/snapback] i have 3646 on XP. mind you, i've never updated since SP2.. but i'm sure the lower version number is because it's based on a new kernel (6.0).. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I just did a fresh install of XP SP2 last night and got Media player 10 through windows update, it is version 3646... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I have 3646 on XP and I don't get promted to update so guess klop is not quite right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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