Media Player sucks (and hates me)
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Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
Everytime I click any video (and probably audio) link in IE, WMP tries to open it and it crashes every time without fail. MS tells me to install some program, which I did, but to no avail. Currently using WMP 10 beta, but if i go back to 9 it doesn't help at all...any ideas?
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WMP was designed to play movies.
People need to stop using toothpicks as can openers if you take my meaning.
Winamp is excellent for music, and Media Player Classic is one of the very best for video.
(Oh, and I'm prolly stupid for saying this - but I didn't get the whole toothpick deal... )
Movie programs for movies, music programs for music. Try to mix both and you have crap like WMP.
Media Player Classic is special because it has dozens of custom aspect ratio options, direct interfacing with audio codecs (For example, OGG and AC3 directshow filters) which allow you to adjust the volume of specialised streams. If you have dolby digital audio in WMP, you should play that audio with the help of a codec called AC3Filter as it's the best AC3 codec out there. If you're using WMP, though, you can't adjust any of the options for AC3 Filter (There are dozens) because WMP doesn't allow the codec to do anything more than decode.
With media player classic, not only do you get that codec control, plus DVD support, matroska support, OGM support, and the ability to play just about any other A/V format available at the moment. It's exceptional at playing video and supporting various third party codecs and plugins.