I'm about to switch from Windows Media Player to iTunes (hubby is giving me his iPod Video, yay!). What should I know before making the switch? [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 9 answers

How can I get WMP 11 to stop trying to find media information about my ripped CD on the internet? The pop up info box is making me crazy. Where's the switch to turn it off? [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 12 answers

Windows Media Player 9 used to begin playing an mp3 as soon as you clicked the link, so you didn't have to download the entire mp3 just to start hearing it. I can't seem to get WMP11 to do this - any ideas? [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Can't get things deleted off my USB drive anymore. Think it's Windows-Media-Player-for-Mac's fault. [more inside]
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - 5 answers

How can repair my video codecs? Out of nowhere, I cannot see any video in my AVI files but I can hear the audio just fine. Windows Media Player 11 simply does not load when I click to open an AVI. It is fully installed and everything but when I try to click on an AVI to open it -- nothing happens. [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2007 - 12 answers

Editing Windows Media Playlists remotely [more inside]
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - 1 answers

Is there a good cross-fade plugin for the Windows Media Player SDK? [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2007 - 0 answers

Last week I downloaded Windows Media Player 11, to complement Real Alternative and all the other MPs on my system. Now, every time it finishes playing a movie clip, it wants to go online. I could block it with Zone Alarm, but I want to stop the behaviour in options. Anyone know which option stimulates the player to do this, and where to switch it off?
posted on Apr 4, 2007 - 5 answers

Daily Show on a Mac [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - 10 answers

All of a sudden I can't rip a CD to mp3 files using WMP-10. What happened and (more important) how do I fix it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - 5 answers

ObscureStatisticsFilter: Help me find usage and market adoption statistics for major streaming audio servers. [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2006 - 3 answers

Why does Windows Media Player hork up all my CPU these days? When it didn't used to? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 7 answers

I attempted to install the latest Windows Media Player, it failed and asked me to reboot and try again, and now I'm locked in a reboot - blue screen of death - reboot loop. Help! [more inside]
posted on Dec 31, 2005 - 7 answers

Video crashes my computer after I bought a new video card. How do I fix it? [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2005 - 15 answers

How can I easily burn a long Windows Media Player playlist to a dvd? If that isn't possible how can I export only the desired files from my overly large media collection to another directory so I can then just burn those files using another program without having to individually select all the files ? I don't have an ipod or another external device that i could easily copy to using wmp's sync feature
posted on Aug 22, 2005 - 4 answers

Seeking a freeware MS Windows Media Player plug-in to play stereo mp3s as mono. [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2005 - 4 answers

Windows Media Player will no longer load in Firefox or Safari. I have reinstalled twice, I remember seeing similar problems with WMP and OS X on AskMe or MeFi (I can no longer find where I saw it) without an answer, help!
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 0 answers

What are your favourite settings/formats for exporting short web-based videos? [mi]
posted on Dec 6, 2004 - 3 answers

Best way to play the latest Windows Media movies under OS X?
posted on Nov 30, 2004 - 12 answers

Can I throttle the speed at which WMP plays streaming media? When I fire it up, it attempts to play at 128k, and kills our inbound bandwidth. We're in an industrial-boonies area of town and only have a pokey ISDN due to distance from the tellyphone whatsit. Despite the unused fiber hatch right in front of the building.

Yes, I am aware of non-MS products. This question is not about them.
posted on Nov 15, 2004 - 3 answers

Why is it impossible for me to watch/listen to streaming video without the program stopping every few seconds to buffer? I tried to watch this video on both RealPlayer & Windows Media the same thing happened with both.
posted on Oct 14, 2004 - 5 answers

It seems like ever since I paid for Quicktime Pro for my Macintosh, Windows Media movies stopped working, especially embedded ones -- they complain about inability to create a "unique tmp file." Plus my file associations are screwy. Wonder what happened and how I can fix it...?
posted on Sep 27, 2004 - 1 answers

For some reason, as of late, .avi files have been playing weird in Windows Media Player (which i'm getting a little sick of). The sound plays fine but the video starts dragging and keeps getting farther and farther behind. This does not happen with .mpg or .asf files. Is this a simple RAM problem or is something up with windows media?
posted on Apr 10, 2004 - 7 answers

Okay, for some reason, all of my .mpeg and .avi files when opened in Windows Media or Global DIVX play upside down and inside out. The audio is fine, but the image is totally inverted. What is up with that? How come .wmv files are playing normally? Did i do something to the files or is there something messing with them?
posted on Mar 6, 2004 - 8 answers

Why does the current version of Windows Media Player freeze my Win2K machine? The same wmp clip crashed my machine in both the Real One player and the current WMP, but the older version of WMP plays it just fine.
posted on Feb 18, 2004 - 1 answers

windows media player attack !
I cant change the brightness settings etc when i play a dvd.
posted on Feb 5, 2004 - 2 answers