Media Player questions

I've noticed two small but significant differences between the Media Player
that comes with Win7 and the XP one I was used to (I'm sure there are more
differences, but these are the two which affect my everyday use).

Firstly, when I play a video file, the overall length of the video isn't
displayed, only the current play position. That's to say, instead of (say)
01.20/15.00 I just see 01.20. Is there a way of making the program give the
full display?

Secondly, in the old player, you could select to have the "Enhancements"
control panel permanently displayed (I kept it to the Video Settings option
with the brightness and contrast controls). In the new version I have to
call up the controls again every time the program is run. Is there an
"always visible" option?

I'm sorry if these are really basic questions, but despite a good bit of
searching I can't turn up the answers.

Many thanks,

Bert

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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I've noticed two small but significant differences between the Media
Player that comes with Win7 and the XP one I was used to (I'm sure there
are more differences, but these are the two which affect my everyday
use).

Firstly, when I play a video file, the overall length of the video isn't
displayed, only the current play position. That's to say, instead of
(say) 01.20/15.00 I just see 01.20. Is there a way of making the
program give the full display?

Secondly, in the old player, you could select to have the "Enhancements"
control panel permanently displayed (I kept it to the Video Settings
option with the brightness and contrast controls). In the new version I
have to call up the controls again every time the program is run. Is
there an "always visible" option?

I'm sorry if these are really basic questions, but despite a good bit of
searching I can't turn up the answers.

Many thanks,

Bert



Can't help with #2, but for #1, either run in Full Screen, or if you just
click on the time display, it will show both.

Much better help available here.

Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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I've noticed two small but significant differences between the Media
Player that comes with Win7 and the XP one I was used to (I'm sure there
are more differences, but these are the two which affect my everyday
use).

Firstly, when I play a video file, the overall length of the video isn't
displayed, only the current play position. That's to say, instead of
(say) 01.20/15.00 I just see 01.20. Is there a way of making the program
give the full display?

Secondly, in the old player, you could select to have the "Enhancements"
control panel permanently displayed (I kept it to the Video Settings
option with the brightness and contrast controls). In the new version I
have to call up the controls again every time the program is run. Is
there an "always visible" option?

I'm sorry if these are really basic questions, but despite a good bit of
searching I can't turn up the answers.

Many thanks,

Bert



Can't help with #2, but for #1, either run in Full Screen, or if you just
click on the time display, it will show both.

Much better help available here.

Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


The Now playing Is now a separate floating window and so are the
enhancements.
Apparently this so that Media player can be controlled via other streaming
devices.

also there is Media centre Completely separately configurable

Bruce Hagen wrote:

Can't help with #2, but for #1, either run in Full Screen, or if you just
click on the time display, it will show both.

Excellent, thank you! But how ridiculous that it should require specific
selection like that. Why change the display from the old arrangement, I
wonder? Apart from the simple desire to be different, of course.

Much better help available here.
Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player

Again, thanks. I'll take a look.

Bert

"Trev" wrote:

The Now playing Is now a separate floating window and so are the
enhancements.
Apparently this so that Media player can be controlled via other streaming
devices.

I don't understand the Now Playing concept (though admittedly I haven't
really had much of a chance to look into it yet). I'm not sure what you
mean by "controlled via other streaming devices".

In any case, not to be able to have the enhancements panel permanently on
view strikes me as a ludicrously retrograde step.

...also there is Media centre Completely separately configurable.

I'll investigate that, thanks.

Bert

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
"Trev" wrote:

The Now playing Is now a separate floating window and so are the
enhancements.
Apparently this so that Media player can be controlled via other
streaming devices.

I don't understand the Now Playing concept (though admittedly I haven't
really had much of a chance to look into it yet). I'm not sure what you
mean by "controlled via other streaming devices".

In any case, not to be able to have the enhancements panel permanently on
view strikes me as a ludicrously retrograde step.

...also there is Media centre Completely separately configurable.

I'll investigate that, thanks.

Bert



The enhancement panel can be permanently on view except in full screen as
that will be on top of it. Its a separate small window.

Trev wrote:

The enhancement panel can be permanently on view except in full screen as
that will be on top of it. Its a separate small window.

Perhaps I didn't put that as clearly as I might have: by "permanently on
view" I meant "there already when the program is opened, rather than having
to be called up specially once Media Player is running".

Bert

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
Bruce Hagen wrote:

Can't help with #2, but for #1, either run in Full Screen, or if you
just click on the time display, it will show both.

Excellent, thank you! But how ridiculous that it should require
specific selection like that. Why change the display from the old
arrangement, I wonder? Apart from the simple desire to be different, of
course.

Much better help available here.
Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...wsmedia.player

Again, thanks. I'll take a look.

Bert




You're welcome.

MS Motto: "If it ain't broke, break it!"
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA