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However, you can embed the player into a web page and open multiple instances of the web page, each playing its own content. I go through the hassle of downloading and installing it, I hope someone (and hopefully, more than one person) will answer this for me: Does WMP 9 support the opening of multiple windows?

Alternative to the Windows Media Player Control
phredly ph...@no.net microsoft public multimedia windows mediaplayer Running Windows Media Player 6.01.05.0217 under NT 4.0 SP 4. Details reveal multiple instances of: "Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200)" and: "A decompressor was downloaded for this file, but it didn't work.

Multiple Instances
GioSico anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsmedia player I love Windows Media Player in XP Pro but wish it could run multiple instances so that when I double click a media file it does not stop playing the media file that is currently playing. I have been searching the net off and on for

Problems with Windows Media Player...
Does anyone know of a reasonably priced alternative to the Windows Media Player Control? I'm looking for a control to play audio only (mp3, wav, DMC2 (Digital Music Control 2 - www.izzyonline.com) -- but it doesn't allows one critical aspect that I need -- Multiple instances of the control (indexable ideally).

Media Player and more than one file
"GioSico" <anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1F861285-77D6-438C-8A7E-AF2B72458670@microsoft.com... I love Windows Media Player in XP Pro but wish it could run multiple instances so that when I double click a media file it does not stop playing the media file that is currently playing.

HowTo: Two Instances of Window Media Player
WMP 7.X is a memory pig. Why would you want to watch 5 movies at a time anyway? Is it possible to open multiple instances of WMP - eg to play 5 movies at the same time? I haven't got it installed because I couldn't find the option (and a few other niggles) and so am still running ver 6. Any Ideas? TIA, Morg.

How do I have multiple copies of Media Player open??
Windows Media Player does not allow multiple instances anymore. You will have to use a different video player for that. You can use the Media Player Classic which is based on the older Windows Media Player 6 (which did support multiple instances). MPC has been continually updated by avid supporters,

HowTo: Two Instances of Window Media Player
Joe Flynn joseph.fl...@nospam.nospam microsoft public win32 programmer directx video Alessandro Angeli [MVP::DS/MF] wrote: ... There is no registry hack to overcome it. Now that is a statement that I never would have expected to see in one of Alessandro's posts :) Joe Flynn.

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LaidBack Bill l...@laidNOSPAMbackNOSPAMradio.net comp lang basic visual Does anyone know of a reasonably priced alternative to the Windows Media Player Control? Music Control 2 - www.izzyonline.com) -- but it doesn't allows one critical aspect that I need -- Multiple instances of the control (indexable ideally).

Multiple instances of Windows Media Player
DMC2 -DOES- indeed allow multiple instances of the control, ... Although you can place multiple instances on a form, you will find that you cannot control them as separate entities. Even though there are more than once instances of the control on the form it only acts as if there were one. This was confirmed by the

Multiple Instances
Is it possible to install WMP 6.4 on XP? Will it interfere with WMP 8? TIA "Cesar Garcia [MS]" <cesar...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ufd2$KYcCHA.2116@tkmsftngp08... It is not supported for WMP 7, 8 or 9. You can open multiple instances of WMP 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) Thanks Cesar Garcia

Media Pkayer is NOT suppose to be visable
There is no registry hack to overcome it but maybe you can hook enough API calls to kernel objects creation functions in Kernel32 and window management functions in User32 to prevent WMP7+ from noticing that another instance is running. Of course, this may have unpredictable results if you try to use shared

Windows Media Player remote object and plugin object
David Bristol [MS] email@domain microsoft public windowsmedia server For WMP, just go to Start/Run and type in mplayer2.exe to get the 6.4 player. You can do this multiple times. --

7 zone audio system all from PC?
BTW, I'd like to understand the scenario for when you want to open multiple instances of the player. What are you doing? -- This posting is provided "AS My older version of WMP had an option to open each video file in a new window, but I cannot seem to find this option on the newer and "improved" 7.01 version.

Multiple instances of embedded Windows Media Player
I suspect here you upgraded From Media Player 6 to Windows Media Player 7 or 8. Media Player 6 is still installed (as is the Media Player from Windows 3.1). Type in Start Run mplayer2 Hi: I used to be able to run multiple instances of the same program, but I don't remember which version of Windows I was using.

Play WMV v9 clips in WMP v6.4?
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. -- "Charles" <chash...@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:8dc301c2087a$d9ccdfb0$2ae2c90a@hosting.microsoft.com... I have embedded several sound files in a page using multiple instances of 'OBJECT'. I am using 'onreadystatechange' to

Multiple Instances
Running Windows Media Player 6.01.05.0217 under NT 4.0 SP 4. Every time I open a file (MPG, AVI), Media Player links to Microsoft and begins a codec download. Details reveal multiple instances of: "Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200)" and: "A decompressor was downloaded for this

Alternative to the Windows Media Player Control
J River Media Center 10 has a multi-zone output feature, but I'd prefer to use Windows Media Player if possible. Thanks for any help. "RandyR" wrote: Chris, You are correct. WMP stops when another user logs in. If multiple instances of the activex control are allowed, why would Microsoft prevent output direction?

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So, I upgraded to version 9 hopeing it would allow me to view multiple instances of the mediaplayer window at the same time like older versions on Windows media Player but, noooo it doesn't. Is there a setting someplace that I'm overlooking or is that just the way the app is now? Please help.

Using Multiple Instances of Media Player Possible?
Tim Shaw \(MS\) tims...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsmedia You can do this with WMP 6.4, however it isn't possible to load multiple instances with other versions of the player. -- Tim Shaw - Windows Media This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.