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"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:45:03 -0700, " MS"
> >No auto-resume. So if you're seeing a movie, close the program, and a
> >couple days later want to continue where you left off, you have to look
for
> >your place. Should have a resume feature.
>
> Uh...It does : I Just turn off the device when I want to stop it
> playing. Media player pauses at the point you were at and remains
> paused there till you click on it and restart the play. You shouldn't
> close the program if you want it to stay at the pause point, just
> pause it and leave it minimised
Obviously one can do that. Yes, that may work if one wants to stop the movie
to go to the bathroom, and start it again a few minutes later. What if one
wants to resume it a few days later?? How likely is that you will keep WMP
running all that time? In fact, how likely is it that you will not have to
soft reset the PPC in that time? An auto-resume feature is necessary (for
audio too), and is present on every alternative music and video player for
the PPC. No, pressing the pause button and leaving WMP running is no
substitute for a resume function.
> >Related to the one above--should have a book mark feature. Could be
> >programmed to a hardware key. Press a button to set a bookmark whenever
you
> >want. Later could be easily recalled, to start from that bookmark.
>
> That sounds like a neat fature, I might recommend it to them on MVP
> wish <g> Course you can guarantee we'd all have to upgrade to new
> devices to get it as WMP is part of the OS install on ROM :-(*
I don't think the only way to upgrade the OS is to buy a new device. There
already is a new upgrade to WM2003 (I forget if it's called SE or SP1 or
something like that), which at a recent convention people could get their
devices upgraded to. (I believe it's not available publicly yet.) And there
is talk of a WM2004 coming out some time. I think present devices can be
upgraded, one will not have to buy a new device to get a new OS. Besides, if
a new WMP was created, it could be made available for the user to install
with his or her other programs, it wouldn't have to go in ROM. (In fact,
that was even the case with the Bluetooth update for the IPAQ.)
>
> >Also would be nice if WMP-PPC could play some of these other formats-divx
> >avi, ogm, mpg. etc. Many people already have files in these formats, and
> >would like to watch them without re-encoding, etc.
>
> Agree, Divx should be installed by default. Only question, who's gonna
> pay for milions of Divx licences when they include it in the WMP - you
> ? me ? I don't think so somehow hehe
Well, how come I can watch DIVXs (or XVID) on the PPC now, without having
paid a license? Not on WMP of course, but on programs like the one this
thread is about, "Betaplayer", or the one it spun off from "Pocket Music and
Video Player". Both of these programs are freeware, I doubt the authors paid
for "millions of DIVX licenses", and the user certainly doesn't have to. I
don't know about the legalities of this, but I suspect you have a wrong
assumption. The DIVX codec is downloadable for free from the divx.com
website. (They also have a "pro" version that you have to pay or submit to
ads for, but the free version is all that is necessary to watch movies, and
for most encoding.)