10-18-2002, 06:33 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Windows Media Player 8.5
http://www.pocketpcmagic.com/wmp85/
On Pocket PC Magic pt gives an overview of the new features and enhancements of Windows Media Player 8.5 that is included in the EUU3 service pack that should be released by the OEMs pretty soon now.
The new Windows Media Player 8.5 gives:
� improved performance and quality, including faster playlist and content loading, improved video and audio playback, and improved memory use,
� improved playlist management
� better connection manager integration
� more robust streaming support
� a fix: Media Player full screen playback no longer breaks on second played clip.
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10-18-2002, 06:55 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 312
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Nice review, so we will be all waiting for EUU3 to be released.
As for mp3 players, it seems that the company which released withMP3 is going to release an updated one with WMA capability + a video player as well.
More news here:
http://discussion.brighthand.com/sho...threadid=62475
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10-18-2002, 07:22 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 706
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Great review. Looks like EUU3 is going to fill some of the gaps in PPC2K2. Now if only the included a decent file manager...
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10-18-2002, 07:56 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 168
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Man, I sure hope they include the ability to alphabetize a playlist in wmp.
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10-18-2002, 08:17 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 171
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Pausing
Still haven't announced a fix for the failure to pause/restart correctly when playing MP3 files :? Or are MS not aware that's an issue?
And it would be nice to be able to play files of a shared directory from my desktop. That way I could have access to all the files at work, not just those on my Ipaq.
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10-18-2002, 09:18 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 185
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Hm, I'm missing what I really hoped form. How about optimization for XScale? Was it expected that we should see a version that actually takes advantage of the new processors? 8O
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10-18-2002, 10:03 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 105
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Downloads new Media player 
It's ferkin huge 8O
Runs application 
Lose 90% of your system resources :?
It takes over your PDA 
You try to remove it :cry:
It just won't leave :evil:
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10-18-2002, 01:13 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by krisbrown
Downloads new Media player
It's ferkin huge 8O
Runs application
Lose 90% of your system resources :?
It takes over your PDA
You try to remove it :cry:
It just won't leave :evil: |
What are you talking about? It goes in ROM. Where did you download it?
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10-18-2002, 01:27 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 113
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by "Ed Hansberry
What are you talking about? It goes in ROM. Where did you download it?
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Not for the people who upgraded their ppc 2000 rom to ppc 2002.
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10-18-2002, 01:43 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 105
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Sorry Ed ,I was just being sarcastic about every microsoft update that just gets bigger and bigger and takes longer to boot up, so you have to buy a pc with more ram and faster processor to keep up..etc
you get the drift
I just dream of the day Microsoft says 'hey we've updated this application, it's smaller uses less ram and runs quicker!'
I take it back that's exactly what they say it does...WOOHOO!
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