Media player wont install!

[zixiazhang]

Just nabbed my friends hp ipaq 1910 and tried installing media player on it and get this error message saying The connected devices is not supported with this version of Windows Media Player. Are my doing someting wrong never had a pda before media player is 7.1 pda's got windows ce 3.0 and i'm using active sync 3.8

Thanks

[yankeejeep]

Are you sure that you are trying to install a version intended for a PocketPC?

[zixiazhang]

I dont think so isnt a hp 1910 a pocket pc? If not can you direct me to the right media player to download? This is the one i got http://www.download.com/3640-2176_4-10307585.html

Thanks

[Wiggster]

That's not the version for Pocket PC, that's the version for Windows CE (there's a difference; Pocket PC is based off of Windows CE 4.x now, but it's not the same OS). The version for Pocket PC is here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4615AFAC-936C-40F0-B557-9F4C2DDC3318&displaylang=en). but you may already have that version.

Your device should already HAVE Windows Media Player, why are you trying to upgrade?

[applejosh]

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Someone beat me to the punch.

[zixiazhang]

Well the pda wasnt mine to start with and when i got my hands on it, it didnt have media player but i found an attachment here http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/...threadId=549356 it was in german but once i installed the upgrade it was back in english and working fine :D I also got pockettv for the mpg files :D

Thanks for the all help guys

[Menneisyys]

The version for Pocket PC is here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4615AFAC-936C-40F0-B557-9F4C2DDC3318&displaylang=en). but you may already have that version.

That's only a (very minor, nowhere as good as the version 8.5) upgrade to an already-installed WMP8. The latter can't be downloaded from Microsoft.

Your device should already HAVE Windows Media Player, why are you trying to upgrade?

It's a 16M ROM device, so WMP 8.0 comes on the CD ( http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/hp1910-review.html ), not pre-installed on the 1910.

[Menneisyys]

Are my doing someting wrong never had a pda before media player is 7.1

Are you sure it's 7.1? The link you gave us is not a valid one (you may have copied it from inside another phpBB forum, which collapses the internal part of the visible URL in order to make them fit into the page), so I couldn't check whether it's really 7.1.

The WMP 7 series is meant for PPC2k devices, and NOT PPC2k2 devices. WMP8 is meant for the latter. The former lacks a lot of things WMP8 already has, e.g. streaming.