willywonka69 Posted August 30, 2001 Share Posted August 30, 2001 when i try to play .avi .mpg .mp3 you name it with wmp it like stuters anyone know a solution doesnt do it in any other program:( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khujo Posted August 30, 2001 Share Posted August 30, 2001 wmp8 is a resource hog, plain and simple its nice and pretty but not efficient, any one who tells you differnt is lying to themselves, load each one and watch your cpu use with task manager... i still use media player 6.4 and winamp for that reason. mplayer 6.4 is included with xp, mplayer2.exe in your windows media player dir. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-4890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 willywonka69 Posted August 31, 2001 Author Share Posted August 31, 2001 ive tried using wmp2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-4895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MulletRobZ Posted September 3, 2001 Share Posted September 3, 2001 Windows Media Player is crap! I use RealPlayer Plus, GDiVX, and Winamp (XMMS in Linux) instead! ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mortensen Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 WMP8 jumps about... I hate it. RTM is much better but it still does jump sometimes. If you want to use something else go ahead but I'm sticking with WMP8. It only tends to skip if the computer is used a lot. Also, WMP8 is NOT a resource hog... in fact the opposite it true. It uses only 6mb of RAM and 20% CPU usage which is AMAZING! -mortensenj Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MulletRobZ Posted September 4, 2001 Share Posted September 4, 2001 Is there a Windows 98 SE version of WMP8? Cause if there is, could ya send me a link so I'll see what the heck is with this version? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Steven P. Administrators Posted September 5, 2001 Administrators Share Posted September 5, 2001 WMP8 is better than WMP7 and in case you were wondering what WMP stands for its: Windows Media Player. The W from Windows the M from Media and the P from Player. The version numbers are the amount of times theyve had te rerelease cause they screwed up earlier versions. sometimes they do it like this 7.1 because they dont like to admit that is was a big mistake and should of been 8 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hob_se Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 I've always used mediaplayer 6.4, but has always installed 7/7.1 to help 6.4 with codec and such.. wmp7 7.1 and 8(XP) always used a huge! bit of the memory... and was slow started.. but when installing build 2600 eval. of XP i was surprised with a WMP8 that only took 6mb of memory... the earlier versions of wmp8 sucked.. but now... microsoft has changed something... im swithing to wmp8 as of today... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MulletRobZ Posted September 5, 2001 Share Posted September 5, 2001 Dammit! I can't view streaming media in WMP7! If only I could make RealPlayer Plus play ASF files, then I'd be all set! :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-5961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DWZ Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 WMP8 Rocks! Real Player Sucks! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-6057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mortensen Posted September 6, 2001 Share Posted September 6, 2001 DAMN - WMP8 is skipping a lot for me too. It's really annoying! IS there anyway I can increase it's priority or allow it to use more RAM and CPU power? I never run anything in the background when I watch music videos, etc. -mortensenj Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-6069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MulletRobZ Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 Originally posted by DWZ WMP8 Rocks! Real Player Sucks! RealPlayer? Sucks? :confused: Then why doesn't Windows Media Player's Streaming capabilities work and RealPlayer's does? :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-6749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cheekymonkey Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 @Mort: One way - but there has to be better - is to open it up, go to taskmgr, right click its process then increase its priority. Hope this works for you. :) As ever - just cos one thing works on one 'puter, don't mean it'll work on another. ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1166-windows-media-player/#findComment-6753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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when i try to play .avi .mpg .mp3 you name it with wmp it like stuters anyone know a solution doesnt do it in any other program:(
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