Windows Media Player suggestions?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:03 pm

Ok I'm trying to access some music video's that I've downloaded and media player is trying to get access to a license for some reason?? Why is this needed? Is there a way to get it to stop so I can view the videos? Or is there another program that I can download to watch mpegs or avi's that won't ask for a license?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:25 pm

Sava700 wrote:Ok I'm trying to access some music video's that I've downloaded and media player is trying to get access to a license for some reason?? Why is this needed? Is there a way to get it to stop so I can view the videos? Or is there another program that I can download to watch mpegs or avi's that won't ask for a license?

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Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:46 pm

maybe look here ?

http://www.doom9.org/

One Sick Tzim · Post by **One Sick Tzim** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:25 pm

I have found that when a video requires a liscense and MediaPlayer starts looking for it, you are pretty much SOL. If you use any other mpeg viewer, it will simply fail to play. What happens is you download some video or another and next thing you know you're being asked to register on some French porn site.

Not that this has happened to me, you understand.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:44 pm

One Sick Tzim wrote:I have found that when a video requires a liscense and MediaPlayer starts looking for it, you are pretty much SOL. If you use any other mpeg viewer, it will simply fail to play. What happens is you download some video or another and next thing you know you're being asked to register on some French porn site.

Not that this has happened to me, you understand.

lol yeah I hear ya same thing here odd pop ups come with it.. But there has to be some other viewer that will run mpegs somewhere available that won't require a license pop up or allow it to run the video.

One Sick Tzim · Post by **One Sick Tzim** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:08 pm

I have tried the usual suspects: WinAMP and the free ones I could find on download.com. One thing you might want to pick up though - which is completely free! - gspot codec information appliance. Simple to use and works on finding codecs for the ones (like .avi) that MediaPlayer can't find.