440 seat deployment of Vista

[Guest]

At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
seats to Vista.
The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media player.

In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select the
option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I am
playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
instance.

As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me know...lol

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Can I open multiple instances of the Player?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/customizing.mspx


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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At my company we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440
seats to Vista.
The main requirment is being able to open multiple instances of media player.

In testing Windows Media Player, I was unable to locate were you select the
option to allow WMP to open mutiple video files at once. Currently when I am
playing a file and select another file, it opens it in the same player
instance.

As this option is a standard in all players I am sure it is just user
error...If anyone knows were the button is located please let me know...lol

 

[Joe Black]

Hi

Judging by this document it would appear not:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/customizing.mspx

You can however use the older player 6.4 in this way. No idea why MS decided
not to implement it in their later products.

 

[Guest]

WOW, that is strange, why would you remove something that people
use...Microsoft adds tons of copyright track and verification stuff that is
worthless and takes out one of the most viable options...it really makes you
wonder if Windows is the right product for a corporate environment. They seem
to gear everything towards teens and kids.

Thank you for your quick response, it looks like there is no reason to
upgrade anytime soon.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Looks like your alterntive is gonna be Quicktime.

 

[Joe Black]

Hi

Just a thought, if there are no features that you particularly want from WMP
11 then you can still use Media Player Classic. Click on View, Options, then
Player settings, where you can change it to open a new player for each
media. You can download it here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/Media-Player-Classic-for-Win2kXP.shtml

Tried this just now and works fine!

JB

 

[Dan]

Looks like your alterntive is gonna be Quicktime.

Or better yet Quicktime Alternative, plays quicktime files within mediab
player classic without the overhead and bloat.

Dan

 

[XS11E]

Or better yet Quicktime Alternative, plays quicktime files within
mediab player classic without the overhead and bloat.

Or even better yet, get the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack that has Quicktime
Alternative, Real Alternative and Media Player Classic plus all the
codecs needed for almost everything.

http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

I think the current is 1.03

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

we are in the process of making a decision on upgrading 440 
seats to Vista. 

I hope it is a long stretched out process that will allow plenty of
times for some of the problems to be ironed out other than by you <s>

I like and use VISTA but that's on a personal machine -- I'm retired
thank goodness -- but I'd hesitate to mass deploy it until much later
this year.

You need to check out all your hardware for one thing, external and
internal.

Sorry I can't help on the WMP question. There is a Music Pictures Video
section here .....