It seems to me that now MS have stopped all support for 98, this superb little application is screaming out for a final update with all the updates up until the suppport stopped. Is this in the pipeline at all?

Edited July 31, 200620 yr by manic23

Agreed

But it can to contain DX9, Win Media Player 9 and Internet Explorer 6

No WMP please! It's bloatware.

No WMP please! It's bloatware.

WMP 9 is kinda bloated, Marius '95. Media Player 6.4, on the other hand, is not.

One can "streamline" WMP9 to eliminate most if not all bloat c***p and spyware [examples]:

* Delete DRM [from 98SE2MP10 ReadMe]:

http://www.mdgx.com/98mp10/READ1ST.TXT

HOW TO REMOVE DRM

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DRM [Digital Rights Management]:

- Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

- Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/drm/

- WMP Mini FAQ:

http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#drm

DRM built-in WMP "feature" can be completely uninstalled by deleting these

files from:

- %windir%\SYSTEM [usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM]:

BLACKBOX.DLL

DRMCLIEN.DLL

DRMSTOR.DLL

DRMV2CLT.DLL

MSNETOBJ.DLL

- C:\Program Files\Firefox\Plugins [example = installed only if

Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Opera web browsers detected in respective folders]:

NPWMSDRM.DLL

NPDRMV2.DLL

NPDRMV2.ZIP

Cut + paste lines below into Notepad or better plain text editor/viewer:

http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT

and name it DELDRM.REG [example]:

-----Begin cut & paste here-----

REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Components\DRM]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Components\Informational\DRM_DRM]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DRM]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{760C4B83-E211-11D2-BF3E-00805FBE84A6}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{A9FC132B-096D-460B-B7D5-1DB0FAE0C062}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{8AA720BF-7468-4DA1-97DA-66D2E41B3DDA}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\CLSID\{9EA69F99-F8FF-415E-8B90-35D6DFAF160E}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Components\Installed\DRM_DRM]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\TypeLib\{760C4B74-E211-11D2-BF3E-00805FBE84A6}]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\DRM.GetLicense.1]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\DRM.GetLicense]

------End cut & paste here------

Run DELDRM.REG every time after (re)installing WMP10 Codecs + DRM for WMP9

and/or 98SEMP10 to delete these Registry keys to avoid errors after deleting

DRM files above.

BACKUP all these files + Registry keys before deleting them, in case you need

to reinstall DRM.

WMP10 Codecs + DRM for WMP9:

http://www.mdgx.com/wmp.htm#DRM10

and 98SEMP10 both install BLACKBOX.DLL, which can be deleted afterwards to get

rid of DRM.

List of files installed by WMP10 Codecs + DRM for WMP9:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=891122

* Disable unique ID [from 98SE2MP10 ReadMe]:

http://www.mdgx.com/98mp10/READ1ST.TXT

HOW TO DISABLE WMP UNIQUE ID

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WMP Unique ID:

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/supercookie.htm

MS WMP10 Privacy Statement:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...10/privacy.aspx

MS WMP9 Privacy Statement:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...es/privacy.aspx

Unique ID built-in WMP "feature" [found as Registry GUID value] is sent (if

active) as UDP packets to MS and other multimedia servers whenever certain

copyrighted audio/video files download or stream to local computer(s).

How to disable WMP unique ID:

A. Run WMP9 [WMPLAYER.EXE] -> Tools -> Options -> Privacy tab -> uncheck "Send

unique Player ID to content providers" box -> Apply/OK.

B. Cut + paste lines below into Notepad or better plain text editor/viewer:

http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT

and name it DELUID.REG [example]:

-----Begin cut & paste here-----

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings]

"Client ID"="{}"

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows Media\WMSDK\General]

"UniqueID"="{}"

"ComputerName"=""

"VolumeSerialNumber"=dword:00000000

------End cut & paste here------

Run DELUID.REG every time after installing system/WMP updates/patches/fixes,

multimedia software that relies on WMP APIs/encoders/decoders, server based

multimedia scripts which try to reenable WMP unique ID etc.

How to automate this process:

1. Place DELUID.REG in the same directory where WMPLAYER.EXE resides, usually

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player [default].

2. Cut + paste lines below into Notepad or better plain text editor/viewer:

http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#TXT

name it WMPLAYER.BAT [example] and save it in

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player [default WMP directory]:

-----Begin cut & paste here-----

@ECHO OFF

REGEDIT.EXE /S DELUID.REG

WMPLAYER.EXE %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

CLS

EXIT

------End cut & paste here------

3. Run WMPLAYER.BAT instead of running WMP executable [WMPLAYER.EXE].

4. Optional: associate ALL WMP multimedia file extensions with

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\WMPLAYER.BAT by using Windows Explorer

-> View -> Folder Options -> File types [examples]: ASF, ASX, WAV, WAX, WM,

WMA, WMD, WMS, WMP, WMV, WMX, WMZ, WPL, WVX etc.

* And of course, one can delete all icons, play lists, tweaks, skins, demos, uninstall/detection etc files from WMP (sub)directories + %windir%\system , to free disk space.

HTH

Edited August 1, 200620 yr by MDGx

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Edited September 25, 201114 yr by PROBLEMCHYLD

No WMP please! It's bloatware.

WMP 9 is kinda bloated, Marius '95. Media Player 6.4, on the other hand, is not.

I know, but I still don't use it. I have it installed for it's codecs but I use ActiveMovie Control instead - AMOVIE.OCX v5.01.70.0327. Only 167,184 bytes.

Edited August 1, 200620 yr by Marius '95

I know, but I still don't use it. I have it installed for it's codecs but I use ActiveMovie Control instead - AMOVIE.OCX v5.01.70.0327. Only 167,184 bytes.

This is what I use too. Uses much less RAM and CPU than any other media player I've tried, since ActiveMovie was originally designed to be embedded in another document.

I've also been "toying around" with AMOVIE.OCX a while back, but I like Media Player Classic [MPC] 6.4.9.0 better.

MPC has built-in codecs for most of the standards out there, unlike M$ Windows Media Player (WMP).

And MPC works also with embedded streaming media [server side scripts].

So I have replaced WMP as default internet media player with MPC.

Recent find I like.. The win32 port of player.. I knew about mplayer for linux for quite some time, but the win32 port is nice now too..

http://www.mplayerhq.hu

Plus, if you want a GUI for it (since it is command line control normally)

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

I've also been "toying around" with AMOVIE.OCX a while back, but I like Media Player Classic [MPC] 6.4.9.0 better.

MPC has built-in codecs for most of the standards out there, unlike M$ Windows Media Player (WMP).

And MPC works also with embedded streaming media [server side scripts].

So I have replaced WMP as default internet media player with MPC.

Media Player Classic download for Win2000/XP/2003 can also be used under WinNT4.