Media Player

[Charles H Fuller]

When I open Media Player to play a file, it opens fine. However, if I close
it, it appears to keep running in the background, but is not displayed on
desktop. I have to use task manager to close it.

Any one had this problem? Anyone have a solution?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I have been experiencing this should I say 'phenomenon' on Media Player as
far back as version 9. It happens especially if you have have been playing
audio for a long period of time. I personally suspect it has something to do
with Media Player unloading from memory which is just simply taking its own
sweet time. When I am about to go to bed at nights, Media Player is one of
the last apps I close and even then it continues playing the song. When I
wait a bit probably 10 seconds max, the song will stop playing.

Take a look here:
http://thetrainerph.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!9F717AF2A2401F0F!664.entry

and here: http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#wontstop

 

[Dale]

It is probably caused by some program opening Windows Media Player as an
ActiveX or COM control. Therefore, WMP doesn't fully shut down when you
close the user interface for WMP. Check your task list to see what else
might be using Windows Media Player in the background.


Dale

 

[alexB]

I do not know if it is possible to raise the thread priority for Media
Player without going into Classes, etc. You perhaps are the right person
that could think of a parameter somewhere which could change it. If it has a
bigger share of processor time it will shut off much faster. Perhaps file
page size increase will help too.

It must have something to do with the complexity and size of the audio file
system.

What do you think?