On Feb 28, 10:59 am, "Ian D" <tau...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net> wrote in messagenews:OuAdZwbeIHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> > Ian D wrote:
> >> "PD43" . wrote in message
> >>news:50qbs3l7rk3ut63v1phrdkqmgvfhngb3tm@4ax.com...
> >>> "Ian D" <tau...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> If you check the properties of the Win98SE mplayer.exe, the file
> >>>> description is, Media Player 2. The file version is 4.10.
>
> >>> Reading is a skill.
>
> >>> If you read the post you were replying to you would have seen that
> >>> this was already stated and was being acknowledged in that post.
>
> >> I was referring to the internal file description, Media Player 2,
> >> of mplayer.exe, which is the original Win9x version that the
> >> OP was referring to. Version 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) arrived later,
> >> starting with WinMe.
>
> > Is that right? I never had WinME (just Win98SE), and I sure have it
> > (mplayer2.exe). Its file date is Sept 2001.
>
> > So either it came with Win98SE, or IE6 (or IE6 SP1). (not just WinME).
>
> Mplayer2.exe (Media Player 6.4) actually appeared first in Win2000,
> but WinMe was the first home OS to have it. It's also in WinXP.
> You'll find it in the Program Files\Windows Media Player folder.
> In XP it shares program code with whatever version of WMP is
> installed.
>
> The full stand alone version of Media Player 6.4 is still available
> at the MS Download Centre, along with additional codecs and
> buffer overrun security updates.
I did finally get it to work. I had to go into my current media
player (MediaPlayer 9.0) and deselect the file types. Then in the
Mplayer2.exe options I selected the media types. Finally I used the
open with option in windows Explorer and the Mplayer2 was available to
select with "Always use this program". It seems to have fixed the
problem.
Thanks the help.