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Windows Media Player problems
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Santa Cruz, CA USA
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Has anyone ever gotten Windows Media Player (6 or 7b) to work effectively on the macintosh? I'm running 9.1 on dual-450 G4, 512MB ram, etc... fairly powerful machine, yet any windows media stream I try to watch plays for 5 seconds then freezes for 30 seconds and just keeps going like that - 5sec/30sec on and on.
My question is this:
Are there software incompatabilities? I can't imagine Microsoft releasing a bit of code THIS bad, so give me some input here...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: New York, NY US
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Hi, at least your getting a picture. I have the Window's Media 7 for the mac and now when I click on a video it say's Unable to connect to Proxy. What is that? Also, when I try to view a 4 minute video my freind made in Windows Media I get a screen with all these codes on it instead.
[This message has been edited by LauraJ (edited 02-02-2001).]
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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Try WMP 6.3. It may be better but I would really suggest QT 5. I try to stay away from WMP media because the quality stinks and it doesnt load streaming media as fast as QT does.
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Immybaby
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Try allocating more memory to WMP7. It works fairly ok on my imac DV
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2000
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It hasn't given me any probs the few times I've used it.
I just keep it installed for Mac DivX player, version 6.3.
7 sucks. Get 6.3.
But avoid it toally if at all possible...
Cipher13
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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Version 6.26 works ok, but it tends to 'get stuck' while streaming. I also have trouble with the browser plugin's mime settings - some sites recognize it and others don't.
All in all, it's crap. I didn't expect anything too good from MS in the streaming media department, however 7b is really bad. I installed it and trashed it within an hour. I tried it on a G4 400 AGP 8.6 and a G4 Dual 400 OS 9.04 . It is that bad.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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99% of your problems is that it's by Microsoft. My suggestion is to trash that piece of crap and look for an alternative.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Orange County, Ca
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
99% of your problems is that it's by Microsoft. My suggestion is to trash that piece of crap and look for an alternative.
Heh, Yeah WMP is pretty bad. I liked it better when it was titled "Microsoft Media Player for Macintosh." It's all quite buggy though.
Cheers for QuickTime
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