Hi everyone,

some years ago,when I was configuring my OSR2 I stick with the Windows Media Player 6.4, because the newer WMP look like crap IMHO.

To play the newer WMP8/9 content I had to do a manual workaround due to some old compoment,don't remember exacly now,so the new WMP8/9 content work fine,but somehow I lost the ability to play also the old WMP64 content and after those years I would like to fix it up.Is there some WMP package already or I have to extract the old WMP codecs from the WMP64 installation package and do the codec registration manually?

To makes things less complicated, why not simply:

(1) install WMP9 - which includes support for newer codecs (this is latest version that works anyway)

then....

(2) install WMP 6.4 Classic

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/media_player_classic.htm

After you download Classic (its a stand-alone executable that doesn't require installation), go to the options menu, then to the formats menu, and then change your file associations to open with Classic. That's what I've done, because I don't like the interface for WMP7 or WMP9 either.

*Edit*

As for backwards compatibility, I was able to read files made using WMP7 with both WMP9 and Media Player Classic 6.

I'm not sure what the issue is and why you can't play older files.

Edited April 29, 201412 yr by LostInSpace2012

To makes things less complicated, why not simply:

(1) install WMP9 - which includes support for newer codecs (this is latest version that works anyway)

then....

(2) install WMP 6.4 Classic

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/media_player_classic.htm

After you download Classic (its a stand-alone executable that doesn't require installation), go to the options menu, then to the formats menu, and then change your file associations to open with Classic. That's what I've done, because I don't like the interface for WMP7 or WMP9 either.

*Edit*

As for backwards compatibility, I was able to read files made using WMP7 with both WMP9 and Media Player Classic 6.

I'm not sure what the issue is and why you can't play older files.

Im aware of WMP classic, but I was not using it for somekind of playback performance issue as I remember or if it was even working on OSR2,not sure now.

Gotta look into the registry if the links to the old wmp codecs are still there.

Edited April 29, 201412 yr by Comos

Don't know if this would help, but it sounds like what you're looking for...

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Installation_Package_for_Windows_Media_Player_6_4.htm

Codec Installation Package for Windows Media Player 6.4 contains the following codecs:

- Windows Media Video 9 VCM

- Windows Media Audio 9

- Windows Media Screen 7

- Windows Media Audio 9 Voice DirectShow

- Windows Media Video 8

- Microsoft MPEG-4 version 1 and 2

- ISO MPEG-4 version 1 and 1.1

You can grab the old WMP 6.4 here:http://www.oldapps.com/windows_media_player.php?old_windows_media_player=3

Edited May 1, 201412 yr by LostInSpace2012