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WMP 9 for Mac is here
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Yipee! I was waiting for this.
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Steveis... said: "What would scammers do with this info..." talking about a debit card number!
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The new plugin does work well in Safari. Finally, MS decided to make a standard Netscape API plugin for WMP.
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Not that Mac support it but I am disappointed with this:
* 5.1 discrete to stereo fold down only
Seriously, when is 5.1 coming as a standard on Macs as it is becoming standard on PC motherboards?
G5 represented a departure from the past but most of the time we had to wait for DDR, SATA, etc
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Finally, no more reference files being downloaded before viewing windows media files in Safari. Real Networks needs to get off their asses and update realplayer so it does the same as well as work with expose. Also, how come MS media player can't keep the video playing while the window is moved, sloppy programming?
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Where's a good site to test out the plug-in for safari?
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Originally posted by iamnotmad:
Where's a good site to test out the plug-in for safari?
ESPN.com
Actually, about 3/4 of all the Web...seriously, everybody uses the 9 codecs now...
Anybody know how to turn down the volume with the Safari WMP plug-in?
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It times out for me every time I try to download from the link on that page. Is anyone else having problems downloading?
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Seems OK for small files. However, I tried it on a 300 MB WMV file it played OK for the first 30 seconds or so. After that I got decent audio but the video only showed a frame every 10- 15 seconds. Constant beachballs at that point as well. This was on an iBook 700.
On a positive note the Safari plug-in seems to work just fine.
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Is this the Safari plugin supposed to work?
When I go to MSNBC.com to check out the videos, up pops a browser window for the video. When I click on the speed I want, Safari says it can't play it but asks me if I want to try WMP.
I say yes and it plays fine.
However, I would have expected it to play in the browser window.
What can I set to change this?
Anyways, otherwise I like it. A nice upgrade.
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Originally posted by gorickey:
ESPN.com
Actually, about 3/4 of all the Web...seriously, everybody uses the 9 codecs now...
Anybody know how to turn down the volume with the Safari WMP plug-in?
ESPN media beachballs my Safari... have to force quit
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Thank god it's here finally!
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Is this the Safari plugin supposed to work?
When I go to MSNBC.com to check out the videos, up pops a browser window for the video. When I click on the speed I want, Safari says it can't play it but asks me if I want to try WMP.
I say yes and it plays fine.
However, I would have expected it to play in the browser window.
What can I set to change this?
Anyways, otherwise I like it. A nice upgrade.
Sounds like you still have the old plugin or you didn't relaunch Safari after installing WMP9.
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Oh man, I hate VISE installers. This thing is searching my hard disk for over half an hour now and going. 
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Done after just over one hour. Whatever that installer was searching it was doing so very thoroughly.
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It looks allright... Atleast you can see and here more audio codecs.
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Hmm.. if i resize the playing safari-window, the video disappears it seems. Anyone else?
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7MB download, and I think the server is getting hammered, only getting 2.9KB per sec download speed. MS needs to take a leaf out of Apples book when it comes to popular downloads.
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Doesn't seem to work at Microsoft's Xbox site. They have a bunch of trailers for their games, but when you view them it gives an unknown plugin extension.
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Looks almost like a Cocoa app.
I didn't have write privileges to my Applications folder any more. Was this this installer?
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WiMP 9 is welcome because so many websites use that codec.
I don't have much practical use for it and it is still the crap carbon its sibling WiMP 7 for OS X was. Essentially this looks like WiMP 7 with the WiMP 9 codecs. I don't see much difference.
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Originally posted by Developer:
Oh man, I hate VISE installers. This thing is searching my hard disk for over half an hour now and going.
Edit:
Done after just over one hour. Whatever that installer was searching it was doing so very thoroughly.
It was probably searching your harddrive for illegal files. Microsoft always snoops where they don't belong. 
Screw Microsoft AND the horse they rode in on.
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Originally posted by Developer:
Oh man, I hate VISE installers. This thing is searching my hard disk for over half an hour now and going.
Edit:
Done after just over one hour. Whatever that installer was searching it was doing so very thoroughly.
This was the installer sending Microsoft a copy of the contents of every file on your computer. They claim it is needed to ensure "digital rights management" security. They want to make sure you are not a pirate, so if they find a single pirated file on your computer they (1) refuse to install Media Player and (2) report you to the RIAA and other appropriate authorities.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to activate it and sign up for that Passport thingy.
Edit: APi beat me by one minute! Damn!
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On their download page:
ttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/macintosh/osx/default.aspx
There are instructions on how to uninstall 7 before installing 9. Perhaps not doing this causes problems?
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Originally posted by Scifience:
This was the installer sending Microsoft a copy of the contents of every file on your computer. They claim it is needed to ensure "digital rights management" security. They want to make sure you are not a pirate, so if they find a single pirated file on your computer they (1) refuse to install Media Player and (2) report you to the RIAA and other appropriate authorities.
Oh yeah, and don't forget to activate it and sign up for that Passport thingy.
Edit: APi beat me by one minute! Damn!
you're joking righy? cuz Little Snitch detected nothing leaking (so far).
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How come the Windows Media plugin doesn't appear in the list of "Installed Plug-ins" under Safari's Help menu?
I quit and relaunched Safari. I checked the plug-ins folder and the new plug-ins are there, but they're not listed in Safari.
When I click on a Windows Media link, it downloads the file and then I have to double-click it to play it. It still doesn't play it within the browser.
WTF is the point of that?
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WMP 9 doesn't play video clips at http://nhl.com/intheslot/watch/video/index.html
When I try, I get this:
In order to play this file, you need to upgrade your media player to a version compatible with Windows Media Rights Manager V7. Select View Compatible Players below to see a list of compatible media players.
If your current media player does not have a Windows Media Rights Manager V7 compatible version, you should select a different player with the Windows Media Rights Manager V7 identifier.
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Originally posted by Spliff:
How come the Windows Media plugin doesn't appear in the list of "Installed Plug-ins" under Safari's Help menu?
I quit and relaunched Safari. I checked the plug-ins folder and the new plug-ins are there, but they're not listed in Safari.
When I click on a Windows Media link, it downloads the file and then I have to double-click it to play it. It still doesn't play it within the browser.
WTF is the point of that?
I think you still have the old WMP 7 files in your Internet Plug-Ins folder. Try deleting them and re-installing.
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Originally posted by mcsjgs:
I think you still have the old WMP 7 files in your Internet Plug-Ins folder. Try deleting them and re-installing.
Well, I checked the plugin and it was version 9.0, but I deleted it and reinstalled and it worked this time. Weird.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by Spliff:
How come the Windows Media plugin doesn't appear in the list of "Installed Plug-ins" under Safari's Help menu?
I quit and relaunched Safari. I checked the plug-ins folder and the new plug-ins are there, but they're not listed in Safari.
When I click on a Windows Media link, it downloads the file and then I have to double-click it to play it. It still doesn't play it within the browser.
WTF is the point of that?
Mine works fine - both DRM and WMP plug-ins are listed in Safari's Help menu.
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I do *not* feel comfortable giving my administrator password to an installer for a MS product. However, I took the risk and did it anyway. Before I installed, I unplugged my dialup connection (no broadband) and tar'red and gzipped/bzip2'ed any media on my system (and dragged my original media folders to the Trash, doing a "Secure Empty Trash" too).
The "I'm sifting through your hard disk looking for contraband" portion of the install didn't take long. Here's pretty much what was touched during the install:
/Applications
/Applications/Windows Media Player
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/MacOS
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/HelpPages/HTM
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/HelpPages/Htm
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/HelpPages/htm
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Japanese.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Japanese.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Japanese.lproj/HelpPages/htm
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/HelpPages/htm
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Swedish.lproj
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Swedish.lproj/HelpPages
/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows Media Player.app/Contents/Resources/Swedish.lproj/HelpPages/htm
/Desktop DB
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/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin/Contents/MacOS
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/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin/Contents/Resources/French.lproj
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin/Contents/Resources/German.lproj
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Windows Media Plugin/Contents/Resources/Japanese.lproj
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After testing it out on a WM9 file, I immediately dragged much of the above-noted files to the Trash and did another "Secure Empty Trash". This time it took a long while (maybe 10 minutes) and seemed to have frozen up, then completed. I think something was fishy, dunno.
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Have any of you successfully played clips that require DRM such as all the espn.com sites? On windows, I get a message I need to register in order to view the clips as part of DRM. I'm able to see DRM and WMP in my plug-ins for Safari and view other WM content, but with the ones on ESPN which require DRM it just opens up WMP and says cannot locate file. This was on the first install and subsequent deletion of all WMP and re-install.
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Does this update work with browsers other than IE or Safari such as Camino or OmniWeb?
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Guys this might sound like a obvious post but please restart your browsers for the plugin to be detected. It will work fine after that
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Originally posted by fortepianissimo:
you're joking righy? cuz Little Snitch detected nothing leaking (so far).
They can still refuse to install the software if they find anything. Also, I should mention that this is all based on my opinion of Microsoft. I have no reason to believe anything fishy is going on, but I for one do not install Microsoft products other than Office. 
Scifience: Hah. Try to be a little quicker next time  Hehe 
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Browser plug-in volume controls?
Where?
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It's the same crap as before but with the newer codec. I never even watch Windows Media content.
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Originally posted by addiecool:
Guys this might sound like a obvious post but please restart your browsers for the plugin to be detected. It will work fine after that
Yeah, I missed that the first time. Works fine now.
Also, MS explicitly says to erase WMP 7 first.
BTW, it works fine in MS IE 5.2 as well.
And man, some of you guys really need to get over this anti-Microsoft thing. Sheesh.
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Comprehensive List of Codecs Supported
Audio:
Windows Media Audio Decode (Format Tag: WMA2 = 353, WMA1=352)
Decodes all CBR profiles from 5kbps to 192kbps, 8kHz to 48kHz, mono and stereo
Decodes all v9 CBR profiles, from 5kbps to 320kbps, 8kHz to 48kHz, mono and stereo
Decodes all quality based, bit rate based and peak constrained VBR profiles
Supports WMA v1 and WMA v2 bit streams
Decodes WMV v9 Pro downsampled to stereo
Windows Media Audio Pro Decode
5.1 discrete to stereo fold down only
Windows Media Audio Lossless Decode
Windows Media Audio Voice Decode (Format Tag: 10)
Decodes all CBR profiles from 4kbps to 20kbps, 8kHz to 22kHz, mono
Supports Speech mode, Music Mode and post-filtering
G.726
Video:
Windows Media Video Decode (4CC: WMV7, WMV8, WMV9)
Decodes content encoded with WMV v7 and v8
Decodes content encoded with WMV v9
Decodes WMV v9 1p/2p CBR/VBR
Windows Media Video Image (4CC: WMVP)
Decodes CBR/VBR content
MS MPEG-4 Decode (4CC: MP42, MP43)
Decodes content encoded with MS MPEG-4 v2 and MS MPEG-4 v3
ISO MPEG-4 Decode (4CC: MP4S)
Decodes ISO MPEG-4 v1.0 (subset of simple profile)
Windows Media Video Screen v7
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Is the plugin available to download by it self?
Will the plugin work in Safari if it is placed within the internet plugins folder wif out installing the entire WMP9 sh!tE?
So if dis is cool, anyone wanna host just the WM9 plugin for us to download?
Big up ya ches
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
And man, some of you guys really need to get over this anti-Microsoft thing. Sheesh.
/me questions whether or not this is the place to start an argument about Microsoft.
It's not. Needless to say I will not be installing Windows Media Player 9.
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
/I will not be installing Windows Media Player 9.
I dont wanna install the crap either but i NEED that plugin....reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel baD.
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Originally posted by Jim Paradise:
Does this update work with browsers other than IE or Safari such as Camino or OmniWeb?
Works in Camino.
In OW I get audio, but no video. Not sure where the problem is exactly...
(an easy site for quick testing is MSNBC)
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could someone just host the plugin for download, are their any dependencies the plugin needs?
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Bet you that's Microsloth's "subtle" way of saying "you want it, use a Windows machine..."
Cheers.
Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
7MB download, and I think the server is getting hammered, only getting 2.9KB per sec download speed. MS needs to take a leaf out of Apples book when it comes to popular downloads.
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
..... And man, some of you guys really need to get over this anti-Microsoft thing. Sheesh.
Like yeah.... I know they are crap and all but cut it out people...
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iMac Intel Core Duo 2.0 Ghz 20", 1.5 GB RAM, 250GB
iMac G5 2.0 Ghz 17", 512 MB RAM, 160GB
iPod Video 5G 60GB White
Mighty Mouse sucks - "Bought the Logitech 518 Gaming mouse"
USB 2.0 Hard Drive Sucked - "Bought a Firewire Hard Disk"
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Here's another oddity - when watching a news clip from MSNBC, the video plays just fine when its in the active (topmost) window. But when the video window is not the active window, the frame rate drops by at least half. And this is on a 2x2GHz G5.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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does anyone else find it troubling that this release is not a "big deal" at the Mac BU site ( www.microsoft.com/mac). In fact, I think the links there, if followed, still lead to WMP 7.1. (unless i am missing something)
is this evidence of a de-emphasis of the Microsoft Mac BU at Microsoft in favor of more direct ports? I think the Mac BU model served the mac community pretty well - far better than the earlier model without a dedicated mac unit that produced "champs" like Word 6 - a hideous port that wasn't fixed until Office 98, a good port with additional mac-specific features from the Mac BU.
ever since kevin browne left, it seems to have been much less of a presence, and maybe even is being slowly phased out?
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Man, what is it with M$? The download isn't in the Mac section of the site, the uninstall instructions are for OS9, and one of their MVPs on their newsgroups says it's OK to just run the installer without having to uninstall anything. This last part is contrary to everything I've read in these forums, and I'm much more inclined to trust all of you.
Someone recommended trashing the DRM file in the Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, in addition to the main WiMP folder and the prefs file. Over in the M$ WiMP newsgroup, people seem to be having problems with the installer messing up their permissions in a way that DU can't fix. WTF?
As much as I'd like to view all that content I wasn't able to with WiMP 7, I'm just not in the mood to troubleshoot to this extent for a stupid media player. It shouldn't have to be this hard.
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