Windows Media PLayer 9 Beta

[D4rkKnight]

Anyone try this yet? I get an installation failed at the end, and it doesnt even tell me why.

It just gives me some bullshit like, It failed, please look into this. Damn thats helpfull, thanks MS.

Well if anyone has gotten it to work tell me if its better then 8 or whatever XP came with.

BTW I did a search didnt find any threads on this if its a dupe sry in adv.

[Kagliostro]

it's a beta, idiot.

[Yard Ape]

Yo, I got a problem with WMP 7.1. It started this up a few weeks ago. this is the error im getting

WMPLAYER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:0000000b.
Registers:
EAX=00625868 CS=0187 EIP=0000000b EFLGS=00010a92
EBX=00000000 SS=018f ESP=006258dc EBP=006258fc
ECX=0075a724 DS=018f ESI=00752824 FS=1adf
EDX=0000007f ES=018f EDI=00752824 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
07 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 f8 7d 00
Stack dump:
52112d53 00000000 006258f8 00000000 00752824 00752824 00752824 000000f0 00625b40 52112ae8 00000001 00752824 00000000 00625b34 630382bb 00752890

I removed and reinstalled at least 3 times, and also reinstalled my soundcard drivers, and I got the latest windows98 updates. The in browser WMP works fine. Any help on this is greatly needed cause its eating at my ass. Also, if you notice the error is coming from an unknown module, and all the error descriptions given at the website, are listed in specific module.

Thanks

[D4rkKnight]

Originally posted by Kagliostro
it's a beta, idiot.

Well I dont want to turn this into a flame war so I'll ignore that, but just to let you know, I didnt start the thread to ask for a solution to my problem, I asked if its better then 8.

[SuperSubZero]

I don't like MP9.

Beta problem = It miscalculates the position slider on alot of stuff, mostly DIVX. I have alot of anime in DIVX format, 24 minutes or so each, and MP9 will try to tell me I can slide out to around 4 hours. No, I don't think so. This makes navigating impossible. 2799 actually had a problem with the slider working AT ALL in many DIVX titles, but 2848 seems to have fixed that.

General dislike = I play alot of my videos in full-screen, and I demand a useable but non-intrusive set of full-screen controls. MP8's are perfect. Small, out of the way. MP9 not only has a big freakin' bar at the bottom, but to compensate, it shrinks the video (aka not in full-screen anymore) when it's activated. Yuck.

I also don't like there's NO uninstall. Don't like MP9? Too bad. I ended up reformatting and reinstalling to get rid fo it.