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Originally posted by widebody911
Along the same lines, I need an mpeg player other than windows media player. I installed it so I could view the HP ad - the older version of mplayer wouldn't work - but v9 is a skanky piece of bloatware with features I don't need, like 'skins' and 'license management', and they removed basic functionality, like being able to pause it with the space bar. And I'm not a fan of the non-standard interface - the whole freakin' concept of Windoze in the first place was a common look and feel.
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Just change the default player to "mplayer2.exe" in all of your file associations (or whatever they're called these days). It'll use all of the MP9 codecs but has a much more basic interface (like MP6 or so).
On the other hand, after I installed MP9, the shell hangs every time one tries to log off. And Quicktime movies will only play in a browser window--the QT player dies immediately after it's started.
Computers suck. MS products suck. Apple products suck. Linux sucks, because geeks don't know how to write software that my computer illiterate wife could use. Instead of France, Syria, or North Korea, I think the military should stop off in Redmond, WA before heading home!
