Windows Media Player

Sometimes I blog to make it easy for me to find a URL later. This is one of those times.We’ve published a new whitepaper at Streamingmedia.com, the “Silverlight Migration Guide: Upgrading Your Windows Media Player Online Experiences.” It’s written by long-time Windows Media and Silverlight…

Great news – the full Moonlight 1.0 has been released. I talked about the beta back in the fall. We used the beta for the Presidential Inauguration, (further details in this Channel 9 interview). Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, built from the public specifications, based…

I’ve had a bunch of emails lately from people still using Windows Media Encoder for a variety of reasons. A surprising number of people seem to be using ancient versions of actual encoder .dll files, so I figured it was time for one-last roundup post for best practices with WME and the old Format…

Ah, just in time for the holidays! Sean Alexander has released an updated Yule Log Visualization for Windows Media Player. Originally released  as a part of the Windows Media Bonus Pack for Windows XP, this visualization is simply a fireplace complete with crackling logs and dancing flames…

The Digital Lifestyle blog recently pointed us to a post that explained how you could sync recorded TV on your DVR with your Windows Mobile device. This is something that no other smartphones are capable of doing, notes Adam Lein of pocketnow.com. Instead of buying expensive videos and TV programs,…

Windows 7 is going to ship with an updated version of Windows Media Player, WMP 12, which we’re excited to try out. In keeping with the new look of Microsoft apps, the new Media Player features a brighter, lighter look that reminds me of the new Windows Live betas. However, it’s not just the UI…

Windows Media Player users, this one is for you - the Psychedelia Viz Pack is a Windows Media Player plug-in pack available as a free download from wmplugins.com. I discovered this thanks to Ed Bott's blog post about the pack. I may not be a child of the sixties like him, but I've always been a fan…

Ray Stephenson showed me a really cool feature in Windows Media Player (11) this morning that allows you to listen to, or watch, audio and video files at a faster than normal speed without affecting the pitch.Why would you want to do that? I hear you ask Well, for…