Studio Hooghly wrote:Thanks for the help! I downloaded the beta for WMP 9, and then read the fine print. I didn't like the sound of Media Rights Management, so I didn't install the software. I'll just suck up the full-screening, I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Studio Hooghly
I use Sasami2k and I just LOVE it (not just cuz the name ;-p) it doesn't have borders (think DivX player and BS player has a mode like that too but...), has translucent controlls and can use any aspect ratio. When compaired with DPlayer and WMP... well imx (in my experience) those two are just slow and SUCK (WMP6 and 7 more). With BS you need WMP so... well I didn't even give it a go cuz <chuckle> that's just stupid. You can also just maximize S2k and since it doesn't have borders and is so sparse it's like custom aspect ratio in one click! works great on my 1280x720 desktop... btw you can also set it to your wall paper ;-p it's cool but requires alot (imo) of processor cycles. And you can set it to play WMV, MOV file but you DO need the WMP and QT for the codecs... but unlike BS it plays avis, mpegs etc. just fine without. for some reason my old beta associates with vob a dat files but I've not been able to find a reason... (WAV files too! And not many media players can play them) Unfortunately it can't play DVD (MPEG2) like WMP (the one with XP at least) or PowerDVD.
Good thing you didn't install WMP9 cuz I heard you can't uninstall it (MONOPOLY! give up on IE go to WMP!) and it doesn't yet work on XP or W2k or something.