Aero disabled with media player

[Guest]

I have a pretty good system with a 5.9 score on the graphics and RAM and a
5.7 on the CPU. Why should some 3rd party media players disable Aero on my
PC? I'm referring to Zoom Media Player 5 and Media Player Classic that comes
with the K-lite Codec Pack. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Why should some 3rd party media players disable Aero on my
PC? I'm referring to Zoom Media Player 5 and Media Player Classic that comes
with the K-lite Codec Pack. Thanks.

because zoom media player 5 and media player classic are poorly programmed!

 

[Guest]

They werent written with Vista in mind, so your response could be turned on
itself by saying Vista rather may have been poorly programmed. Anyone with a
technically based, slightly smarter answer?

amenx
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[Paul Smith]

I have a pretty good system with a 5.9 score on the graphics and RAM and a
5.7 on the CPU. Why should some 3rd party media players disable Aero on my
PC? I'm referring to Zoom Media Player 5 and Media Player Classic that
comes
with the K-lite Codec Pack. Thanks.

They basically use some older methods of drawing video onto the screen that
no longer exist in Aero, and so the system switches back to Basic mode.

Java, iTunes, QuickTime and a bunch of other applications cause the same
thing. There's no technical reason why they won't be updated in time to be
compatible with Aero.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Guest]

Thanks for the reply, but problem solved! These media players had the video
settings set to 'Overlay Mixer', I put them on VMR9 and no more disabled Aero!

amenx
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[Robert Moir]

They werent written with Vista in mind, so your response could be
turned on itself by saying Vista rather may have been poorly
programmed. Anyone with a technically based, slightly smarter answer?

Mikk was basically correct.

They are using a method of accessing the screen which isn't really favoured
for applications that are going to be sitting "on top" of your desktop.

It's quite well documented here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/kamvedbrat/archive/2006/04/02/566788.aspx