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Multiple Media Player Nightmare

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by metnever

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I'm sick of having to use three different media players to play all media files and I don't want to download a freeware player. I also want to stick with Windows Media Player as my one and only player. Is there any plug-in or anything else that can get Media Player to play everything?

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by lordinfidel

I feel your frustration.

However, using 1 media player is not feasible or even possible.

The problem is that each differnt media type (big 3; wm, real and quicktime) all use different technologies for their files.

It is the same as creatinga photoshop image and trying to open it up in paint or corel. They are incompatible.

As the NetOps Admin for a streaming media company, I get these complaints from people all day. The good news is, all 3 major media players are free. Even Real is free, you just have to find the free download link. Quicktime is free and WM is free.

Once installed, you should not have to worry about choosing a player, the program should associate the correct file types it can play.

The people you need to complain to are the 3 vendors themselves. They each need to work together to intergrate their technologies. But I doubt very highly that they ever will.

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