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Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X

Thursday July 10, 2003 6:49 am PDT by Arnold Kim
ActiveWin.com references a WMTALK listserv email from a Microsoft employee indicated that support for WMA 9 Voice as well as all 9 Series codecs is coming to Mac OS X in the fall.



    "We are definitely planning to support WMA 9 Voice in the upcoming release of Windows Media Player 9 Series for Mac OS X. We showed the new player running with Apple's Safari browser at their WWDC a few weeks back. We're shooting for fall release to web right now and we'll keep the list posted. Thanks for your patience"
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arn
112 months ago
Previous replies wastelanded for obvious reasons.

play nice.

arn
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york2600
112 months ago
All I can say is about time. VLC can kinda play WMV files, but it tends to crash every few minutes.
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reedm007
112 months ago
mplayer does a better job than VLC, in my opinion. Just another option.

While I'm not a big fan of WMP myself, this is good news in the sense that having more access to online media is always a good thing.
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Billicus
112 months ago
It's nice to see continued Windows Media Support on the Macintosh platform.
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bobindashadows
112 months ago
[ Admin Edit: let's leave that other thread to die. no need to revive it here :) ]

As for WMP 9... isn't that the one for Win that once you agreed to it, ms reserved the right to install DRM patches without your knowing?

[edit] Incomprehensible sentence grammatically corrected [/edit]
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trilogic
112 months ago
what is Windows Media Player ?


:rolleyes:
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solvs
112 months ago
I'm glad the thread was restarted.

It was kinda funny though.

All I know is that when I installed WMP 9 on one of my Windows machines, it screwed up the system something awful. Required full OS reinstall. I couldn't unistall it. I know that this isn't typical, but that was my experiance. I have the codecs installed on my Win2000, but not the player.

Is it just me, or does this version look suspiciously like QT? Look real close, you may see some similarities.
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mislabeledstar
112 months ago
I'm glad to see continued support on our platform from M$. I know alot of people have a hatred for them, but this release is a strong thing for us to be able to receive certain items that aren't recognized by QT yet. I'll be alot happier if/when Apple adds those codecs to QT rather than having to go to WMS.

Does M$ have the ability to not release the codecs if they want? And does anyone know if that is why they haven't appeared in QT yet?
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aristademis
112 months ago
Maybe I'll be able to play avi files? Finally.
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arn
112 months ago

Originally posted by aristademis
Maybe I'll be able to play avi files? Finally.


certain AVI files will likely never play. There are some old codecs around that haven't (and will likely never) been ported to OS X.

All new content shouldn't use these old codecs... and probably will play under the newest WMP.

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